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[noguri]

I'm a friendly person and I like it when people talk to me on the street.

Usually people who approach and speak to me (whether in Korean or in English) are older folks, or perhaps mostly elderly. I like old timers, they can recall all sorts of history and interesting stuff.

However, what I don't like is that almost all of the adults I meet and chat with at some length at some point bring up their religious affiliation and question me about mine.

I would like to make some Korean friends or acqaintances who are either Christian or non-Christian, but for whom religion is just a private issue. Why is it so important for people to only relate to other Christians? How come these holy rollers just ooze out of the woodwork?

I totally respect people who go to church and that's fine, but why do people have the temerity to ask me on Sunday morning why I don't go to church? It's really nobody's bloody business, is it?

[E_athlete]

[gaffe]

Do you live in Seoul? When I lived in Bucheon, it seemed everyone was a fundie. But in Ulsan I met many many people who'd say stuff like, "I'm not a Christian. I'm not Buddhist. I believe in myself." I just got the feeling that up north was much more Christian than down south.

[Mithrae]

My principle aasked me on the first day, "Are you Christian?" There should be laws against that. My beliefsa are none of his business and do not affect my ability to teach English.

[djsmnc]

I don't meet many Korean Christians.

[Illysook]

In my best church lady voice...

Have you asked yourself why you seem to be meeting so many Christians? Maybe there's a reason. A reason like, maybeeee.....God!

[Steelrails]

Welcome to a different country people. Privacy of religion and such is not the same here as it is back home.

This has its downsides for Christians, people are far more stringent on booze and smokes, two of my preferred vices.

[Sergio Stefanuto]

In my experience, the theist:atheist ratio is pretty much 50:50. 'Atheist' in Korea probably means 'Buddhist' most of the time - an equally absurd, obscene dogma - but anyway, the odds of meeting non-Christian Koreans are fairly good.

[pkang0202]

OP, any Korean you see on the street from 9am-2pm on a Sunday are probably not Christians.


I definitely wouldn't want the company of the OP. Anyone who's shallow enough to write off people just because of their religion isn't worth talking to, in my opinion.

[ED209]