Christianity is more than just a religion. It is more than just a set of rules; It is a personal relationship with Christ.

12:00 in my country Indonesia, Christianity is growing and many muslims converted to Christianity

Praise the Lord! God bless Korea and all my Christian brothers and sisters in Korea, love from Srilanka 🇱🇰❤

As a born again Christian, I consider myself more spiritual than religious. I don't agree with politicizing religion. I am not a fan of modern Christianity in the US so was hoping things would be better overseas. The most important aspect of my spiritual walk is relationship with Christ as opposed to religious customs. God looks at the heart, going to church will not send you to heaven. You must love one another and operate in faith.

You have a choice if you want to be a Christian, it is and never will be forced on anyone.i decided to accept Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. I was accepted!!

The Lord Jesus said : "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to The Father except through Me." He cme to us more than 2000 years ago to taught us to love one another, to love Him with our soul

Korean Christian Missionaries are now working in India, I met several Indians converted by them.

Korean buddhist 💚💚💚 love from birthplace of lord buddha from Nepal Lord Buddha 💚🙏🙏

Christianity is not harmful, evil or bad, it can be a force of good, love and strength but people can use Christianity the wrong way and make it bad. Doesn't mean the religion is bad, PEOPLE can distort it and bend it to their ideologies and make it bad. And it's not just Christianity, every religion is like that as well. Religion is not bad, PEOPLE make it bad.

As a christian beliver it make me sad to hear how people use the name of Jesus to serve their own glory. I pray that God will reveal his truth to koreans people Amen.

Nice documentary. Really interesting and well done. I think that Korea's problem with Christianity is also something that is happening in the USA. A lot of churches emphasize money and trying to gain the most converts to get more money, instead of worshipping God and loving others. You see this with the megachurches and millionaire preachers.

After watching this documentary and reading a few comments, i feel like a lot of people here have portrayed Christianity the wrong way. Christianity is more then just believing in God and getting others involved to become Christians. To define yourself as a Christian you have to accept God as your Creator and his son JESUS as your Saviour and that's a free will granted to us by God himself and should not be forced upon anyone, especially if there is no sincerity. It is easy for people to call themselves Christians, but it isn't easy trying to live like one, (after all we're only human) God knows that. To call yourself a Christian, you have to TRULY accept God in your life, and be committed to his way of living. Trust me, I use to questions Gods existence a lot, but that's beginning to change for me, after i started reading his scriptures. If people just took the time to read the scriptures of the HOLY BIBLE, their eyes will awake to various answers that they are seeking about life (such as your purpose and why things happen) and their understanding will become so much clearer. Trust me, do not test God, do not get angry over things you pray for and were not answered, because he may have answered your prayers, but you were not looking hard enough (now see, that's when Gods testing your faith), because a lot of people tend to turn to him only when times get rough, but then give up on him when they think he doesn't do anything (read the BIBLE and you'll understand why this happens). Just so you guys could know, you don't have to go church to be considered a Christian, It is about acceptance like i said before and developing a positive relationship with Jesus and God, because the sincerity in YOU is what's important and through Christ you will find God, who is Love and Peace. P.s I'm glad South Korea has accepted Christianity in their country, i just hope that their understanding of Christianity becomes clearer. Anyways no ones perfect, but their is a perfect God. So God bless you all

True Christians are the happiest people in the world because they enjoy everlasting life always.

I am an orthodox Syrian Christian from India.Our family has espoused christianity around 52 AD when Saint Thomas visited Kerala,India. We have been devout christians for the past 2000 years.We have never kept a hatred against any other religions of India viz Hinduism & Islam. I strongly urge all christians to keep your faith live & be secular & tolerant towards all religious faiths through out your life.

I think is kind of "funny or sad" how you chose a bunch of nonbelievers of Christianity to represent and speak on behalf of the Christian growth in Korea. It would be fair for you to also ask or interview some real Christians while you're at it (don't you think?) and not just get the critiques of people who are from other religions obviously they are jealous of the success Christianity is having in South Korea. Why don't you ask them how Jesus has and is transforming there lives? and why they are following Jesus? and asked them about how the money they are donating are being used? (obiously a great portion of it is being used to let others world wide know about Jesus to receive forgiveness of there sins and obtain Eternal Life.

I am a White, Christian, American man and I have always admired the Korean people in particular. They are out biggest allies in the world besides England and Canada. I Think the Korean Language is beautiful and I think it sounds the best out of all the Asian languages. I am so glad the Korean people are becoming more and more Christians and becoming better people. I want to move there one day and find a job and a life over there. This just made me happy to know there are alot of people there that have some of the same beliefs that i do!

As a Korean, I totally agree about this documentary. Christianity in Korea is not a religion any more, but it become a "BUSINESS".

south Korea great job god bless you !!!!

for me Christianity is not a religion but the manifestation of Christ's life on earth, to live like He lived, to love like He Loved,to be humbled in every task of life & A TRUE CHRISTIAN is someone who dont see d world outside BUT rejoice with peace in the inside & live like Christ outside...A church goer & A TRUE CHRISTIAN is different totally different

The important is we have Relationship with Jesus(yesu).praise the Lord!❤

How beautiful is the love. I am so proud of my brothers and sisters in God who helped South Korea is their darkness moment after the war.

Praise the lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth! Hindu converted from Nepal living in Croatia Republic 😍✝️✝️

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Much respect from a catholic ti the South Korean nation! S. Korean folks are real calm and nice folk! Christian are free to believe and practice they own religion.

Well, the Holy Trinity, actually, is not difficult to understand or comprehend! GOD created Life and The World - God is all powerful and He can do any act and he is limitless (infinite) Humans GOD created - humans are limited What GOD has done in The Holy Trinity is to devise a way by which humans can know Him which, humans with their limitations can understand! To say: God The Son and The Holy Spirit is not to mean that God is made with the other 2 but, that, for humans GOD sent to The World His strength to hep humans and sent them His strength in a way in a human way as GOD is that complex that they would otherwise not understand! - GOD Himself is not made from 3 different parts but He has given human beings 3 different ways which, combined, prove The one True God!

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I love how they’re respectful about the religion Itself and are only attacking the bad people

I recently became Christian in 2019. As a child, I always felt God's presence but never, never fully read his Sacred Word. Recently, I have.. and I look back at my life choices, partnerships and fellowships..I can't believe..the whole time, I was shaking hands with the enemy. Smh. I regret it whole-heartedly. But am happy to have found my true purpose, my true journey, and my true identity. My Life Lesson Summary: Jeremiah 17:5 Corinthians 6:15 Matthew 7:15

Japanese were aware of this, they know how to preserve their culture. Korea fell for it upto some extent. They used their helplessness to convert people.

Christianity is not a mental illness. Jesus is real no matter what anyone may say about God, but unbelievers should never be forced to come church becuase either you serve Jesus or not. Regardless of anything, so athiests and other religions can diss God but once you come into the prescence of Jesus (truly) you won't be the same. Not bashing anyone but many christians have the wrong idea on how to serve God.

god bless people who follow christianity!

But still Korean christians are doing a lot of great things to Korea they help a lot of North Korean defectors can escape from Kim Jong Un and they fight with Korean Racists who are very against with forerigners in Korea, they pay a lof of money to orphans and single mothers and homeless and elders in Korea etc but they are very against to gay people (I'm not against gay people by the way) but they go to abroad to help the other poor people and they really show Korean people loves so their image in Korea is not that bad

I'm so glad that Christianity is big in korea, I absolute admire the Asian culture, I am a Christian myself and as a Christian there are some Christians who just need to mature and grow..... when you love God and have a deeper understanding of his word, you love people and don't try to force them.....I will definitely be traveling to Korea and do some speaking engagements ❤

Amazing documentary! I hope Mr. Bahador will produce some new documentaries in the future! But I think it’s not that easy it takes time and effort....thank you anyway

It's a humble experience that I met Protestant Korean Christians who have gave up their life for Jesus by preaching the gospel all over the world. It is sad that people in Korean are offended and annoyed about salvation work of Jesus. And ignorant about what kind of life they gave up for the gospel.I am so blessed with the life of these Korean Christians because they obey God to preach the gospel as what God commanded in the Bible which is the very word of God.

HOW ARE YOU BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST IN KOREA HAPPY TO KNOW THAT THERE WERE PROTESTANT CHURCH .THERE.

smart young bros and sisters., and the honest ones. Thank you!

Christianity helped Koreans or Christian missionaries (who nonetheless were much more inspired by humanist thoughts) helped Koreans. huge difference. If anything, Koreans should embrace humanism which also directed modern christian missions of recent times. Just 300 years ago, there was no concept of public christian orphanages or schools for the masses.

Very insightful as it covers a variety of different people's views. The church and it's missionaries have shown a mixture of genuine and compassuonate and corrupt and aggressive....the same as in other countries over it's history. But in Korea, from watching this, I gather the church has an American Evangelical feel.

this is good, hope Christianity becomes overwhelming majority. already the case for Korean for migrants

I just see this video because I'm curios about Christianity in Korea and I find this quite interesting, both the video and people who watch this and comment. I see a lot of people argue about Holy Trinity is not make sense or something. Actually Holy Trinity is pretty simple yet difficult to understand, if you use your logic, a.k.a human's limited brain. That's why there is faith in life, whether people believe in it or not. This Godly thing is not what human's brain can absorb, that's why God tell human to have faith, so human can believe in things that human brain can't understand. You have to use both logic and faith, but you have to have faith more if you want to understand about this religion things.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. There's a lot of People say that they are Christian but in the truth is not. Christian by Word but in Action is Not.

This is what happens when religion is not spread naturally but with the help of political backing to serve some anti-national purpose. The main religions and the only religions to do this are Christianity and Islam. They create religious conflict wherever they spread. South Korea should be glad the other religion there is a pacifist and non proselytising one like Buddhism. If it was Islam which is similar to Christianity in their objective, you would have two parts of South Korea by now.

I think that the biggest problem that non-Christian-Koreans have with the church in Korea is that it is growing. Is there bad happening in Korea among the churches? Yes I'm sure there is, however, I don't think that's why non-Christian-Koreans don't like Christianity there in Korea.I also strongly feel that because my Christian brothers and sisters in Korea are so passionate about spreading the Gospel truth to the world it makes them hated. To my Christian brothers and sisters in Korea keep up the good work. Also know that the best way to preach the Gospel is living a Godly life and loving others. Be gentle with those who do not yet believe so you don't scare them and pray for the unsaved. Don't stop preaching and keep up your passion. :)

used to go to church now. devout Buddhist. Namo Amitabha

저는 독일에서 왔으며 한국 영화를 보고 예수 그리스도를 믿는 사람들을 보고 당신이 한국에서 열심히 일하고 있는 것을 보고 생각합니다. 나는 당신을 모르지만 진심으로 주님을 섬기는 사람들에게 메시지가 갑니다. 당신은 많은 아시아인에게 큰 도움이 되고 롤모델이 됩니다 ❤ 계속 유지하고 포기하지 말라고 말하고 싶습니다 .. 당신이 존재해서 기쁩니다 ❤

oh people you do not know a single word of the living God's will and yet you give your opinions on what "Christianity" should be or not, but in the end none knows nothing. He is the Way, the Thruth and Life, no one goes to God the Father but through him, for He as living flesh carried our sins and took upon himself the punishment for our sins so that the Almighty God with its perfect justice wouldn't bring his punishment for our sins on us, he reconciled us with the Father and cleansed us with his blood so that we can be called righteous for Him through Him, we were all fallen from his glory, from his presence, because we were evil in nature for our sin, but He loved us so much that gave himself as an propitious lamb to die instead of us. His name is Yeshua ha mashiach, Jesus the Christ, or Iesu as some call Him. Through Him those who believe in him can be called, not "christians", but sons of God. Isaiah 53, John 1. God our Father bless you all with his spirit so you can understand the matters of the spirit. May the peace of the Lord be with you.

The Lord bless your lives in the name of Jesus Christ your brother in faith from Morocco

I very much like what that last guy said. It's sad to see the Christian right expand its influence in South Korea. If only it was a liberal branch of Christianity & kept private instead of having the need to proselytize and convert people to a very backwards and fundamentalistic version of it. I don't understand why they can't just leave South Korea alone being a Buddhist, Atheist, or Non-believer country. Why don't they tell Koreans about how Christianity is struggling in the West instead of making it seem like some grandiose gift that everyone is enjoying over here, and South Korea should join in on the fun too! Anyways, awesome job putting this video together for us Bahador!

It seems like most of these problems with Korean Christianity like the attacking of statues and greediness (which sounds like the version of the problem in America with the prosperity gospel and greedy pastors) are coming from the Protestants. The Catholics don’t promote this prosperity gospel and they tend to have better relations with the Buddhist being more respectful.

To the brothers and sisters of Korea whose eyes have been blinded by money, politics, and judgement I pray you repent of your ways. "It is written, my house shall be a house of prayer; but you have turned it into a den of thieves."-Matt. 21:13 Jesus never went around forcing others to follow him or make violent attacks on gentiles, he wanted them to experience God's love and choose Him on their own. Please correct yourselves and start living the way He called you to in love and compassion.

As a Native American follower of Christ, I see tons of similarities especially between tribes & Asian countries. We have a similar societal aversion to Christianity. The love of Money taints what originally could’ve been used for good. There will always be wolves in sheep’s clothing, no matter where on the globe they’re located. The wolves claim to know God but don’t follow him. It sends mixed msgs to those living in the world, who’ve lived their whole lives being knocked around by life. They can’t tell true followers from the fake ones. But Eventually these wolves will call out to God in death. Gods reply: Depart from me, for I never knew you. They’ll say didn’t I do this, didn’t I attend church, I made all this cash in your name, aren’t you proud? That’s not what he’s looking for. He said: They shall know you by your fruit. Now love one another as I have loved you. The Warped prosperity gospel in Christianity isn’t only a Korean issue, as we all know. The numbers of these kinds of “Christians” well outweigh the true believers. True Sons & daughters of Christ are entirely different. They walk through each moment holding his hand. Its a moment by moment relationship, the process of walking with him, treating others as he would. It’s not about getting a ticket into heaven but living a new life, free of all anger, fear & regret. The holy spirit in-dwelt Christians are those who are interested in keeping his commandments. They do it out of love, for who he is & what he’s already done. There is no greater feeling than introducing Jesus to a curious person. It’s like speaking to the old version of yourself, broken, sad & lost, & showing them that God is willing to help with all of that mess & make you whole. No one truly serving Jesus would ever think to do it for money or threaten anyone else to follow God “or else”. Fear isn’t a sustainable motivator. Just live & others will eventually wonder (and hopefully ask) what creates the light, love and forgiving nature inside you. This takes time. Nothing is achieved by force or arguments. That’s not the way Jesus works. We’re broken messes usually. We make the mistakes to prove it. It’s in him we’re made effective if we lovingly respond to those around us. Apart from him we can do Nothing. So, it’s not us. It’s him working through a willing heart. I’m Continually praying for Native American people, (the culture I was born into) as well as countries all over the planet, who know OF him but don’t KNOW him in the transformative sense. It’s funny, I used to be such an antiChristian person in my youth. But, God chooses who he will to deliver his msg to the people around each of us. Sometimes those most opposed to Jesus can be transformed & used by him. Look at Paul. For one to hate God, somewhere deep down they feel that the possibility of it being true as too terrifying to face. Most have been hurt often by people they’re terrified of the possibility of his existence. Like a child whose father hadn’t been there, who will say they don’t have one. It’s a defense. They’re hurt, pray for God to show himself to them, believe they’ll get it, maybe not now but His timing is perfect. So don’t grow weary in reaching out & allowing Christ to use you. Best decision I ever made. Much love & prayers to all who need it. There is hope through him. I looked everywhere for Truth and in the end I found he’s been with me the whole time. He’s the coolest! Hands down!

God is great.... Jesus is really god.... from india

11:00 interesting, I watched many videos on christians converting to islam or muslims criticizing christianity and the main reason why they convert is because they reject and or don't understand the trinity.

Praise God!! The holy word has grown in South Korea, and I live in America and I say to this: Amen and amen.

In Itaewon, foreigners outnumber the local people. A lot from the Middle East. I've been there.

The first lady so coool!!! Amen sister!

are they like christian evangelic/protestant or catholics

Hi I'm Indian you vediyo first time super great job 👏 super 👌 I'm watching 1st time vediyo super excellent tamilnadu nadu chenni ❤

"Largest Church in the world" how? In terms of the size of the physical church or the number of its members? Is this church larger than St. Peter's Basilica? Does it have members over 1 billion? If not then how is it the biggest?

I would any day prefer the traditional/Folk religions.Its so rich and the greatest jem is they give you space .

Edit: Sorry this post turned out a bit long. I have an unexpected and unexplainable love for South Korea, the culture and people! Christianity has been perverted by the enemy to so many people in so many places. The enemy (satan and the fallen) uses horrible people to seem to join Christianity and still do horrible things and this makes all of Christianity look bad! It's a trick! To try to keep people from coming to The Lord and being saved. Those people who are trying to take your money and force you to go to the church building and tearing up public property and doing anything "bad" are not Christians! Not true Christians. I am a true Christian. I love everyone no matter what. My Lord commanded us to love our neighbor and everyone on earth is our neighbor! So no matter who you are or where you are I love you! I'll help you any way I can. I just have come to know the truth and facts through my personal relationship with Him. And I don't want anything bad to ever happen to you. That includes after this life! So as a true Christian I will warn you about the debt, burden and consequences of the sins any of you have fallen in love with. Not judge. I'm also told not to judge. I just warn and inform. You listen to your heart for The Call from The Lord and I beg you to say Yes! I really do love South Korea and I would love to go there to help as a true missionary for The Lord. Actually I want to move to South Korea anyway. I want to go and meet the most beautiful woman and both of us fall so deep in love we both glow! Then start a wonderful family for The Lord. These people need a true explanation of how to be saved... Believe! Believe that God is! Believe that Jesus is the son of God. That he died for our sins. That he resurrected. That's it! That's all! Do this truly believing that this is all true and you're saved! Then if you really believed it you will live the rest of your life based off this truth and come to love Him and obey His commandments. I truly hope to see you all in Heaven. Hope this helps. I love you all!

God is great and He's doing great things. God bless Korea❤. God bless you all❤

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Wow. Christianity should never be forced on people. It's a choice, it is between them and God. As born again Christians, we are asked to share the Word, the Gospel and our loving relationship with Him. It's sad knowing that a lot of Christianity in Korea is corrupted, but I pray that there are some who really understand that it isn't political or a religion but it is a way of life after the gift of salvation from Christ.

I show respect to korea

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5:24 My mother told me not to pray to Buddhist and not to change my religion

Another great job. Seems like Koreans have the same objections as many others, including myself.

6:22 Kim namgoons ( RM from BTS) brother

I sorta noticed that the non Christian Korean STILL HAVE NOT LEARNT THEIR LESSON. Christian missions every where have only one modus opreandi - CONVERSION BY HOOK OR BY CROOK.. and a lot of ignorant folks seems to take the bait...

Wonderful! I am glad to see Christianity helping people :D

I like to have frind in Korea im a Pilipino God bls u all

as a christian, I agree to many people in this documentary say. but they are missing the work of God for the last half a century. S. Korea was one of the poorest country, needed help from other countries. Now, we are helping others. The transformation of this country by his work. Don't forget!

I am confused, they say that Christians in Korea are only focused on money. The only example they gave was politicians raising money. Politicians can not be the only Christians they are talking about. Then there was the kidnapping and forced conviege charge. The guy said that everyone has been kidnapped once and taken to church. I am amazed that this didn't make the film maker ask other people if the had that happen to them. It seems so crazy. This reminds me of when Russia though out Baptist calling them cannibals for taking communion.

09:32 based south Korean preacher in Seoul

I am the way and truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me. John 14:6 God bless all Korea!

I can totally understand what the korean boy and girl is talking about.

As a Messianic Jew I can say perhaps some Korean converts to Christianity may become zealous or perhaps insistent in telling other Koreans to come to church,such that Koreans feel coerced towards attending church and don’t like it. Christians who frown ,dislike Buddhist idols it is because we are commanded by GOD that we should have no other gods before us because HE is a jealous GOD. In our history GOD destroyed even the Jews who worship idols when He gave us the Law. But GOD is coming and He will destroy all false religions from the earth, including Buddhist, Islam, Hindu and others, because GOD tells us, let them do as they will He will come with great power and mighty angels to show all the world He is GOD

May Allah guide you christians out the فِي الْبَدْءِ خَلَقَ اللهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالارْضَ Genesis ,in the beginning Allah created the heavens and earth, Don't forget arabic bible is almost 12-hundreds years old and the English bible 500

Living for God in this fake world , is the best thing . I found myself as the happiest one after giving myself to God ❤️

korean growing in christianity , bless to Korean People and pray to christian Iraq and Christian in middle east, until now in suffer causing by terroris.

It's all about commitment and relationship to God..I really can't understand why religions have different stories and I can't believe that some religions thinks that God is a pig.People should pray to God not to a pig or a stone, statue .I really hope all the people in the world will be saved but how can they be saved when they don't believe ,how can they be saved if the things there doing is wrong.It's not because you can not see it you won't believe it, it is all about faith.I am a Christian and I'm watching this video because I'm curious of the church where Park Bogum attends to

People are leaving Christianity in droves now. Babylon is falling.

Christianity is Not a Religion! It is a Relationship between Man and God.

come lord jesus. iam coming back quickly wi

He is pointing out problems about Korean protestantism.

You can be Christian and be tolerant that's what Christ teach us.

christianity has adapted so well to the modern world

Dont force them to go to your church let God open their heart just do your best to preach the word of God and God will do the rest ...

I think that the Christian Koreans in South Korea should contribute and fervently work towards the eradication of the dog and cat flesh trade instead of preaching their religion. This (preaching) has made many Koreans unhappy. Also, many international organisations such as PETA and other similar groups are fighting to end the menace of dog flesh trade in this country. That's why Korea is considered one of the cruelest nations in the world after their neighbour China. Christians in this country can do a lot to influence their government to end this cruel practice.

It's so awkward listening to Koreans try to speak English. The two languages couldn't be further apart and it's so difficult even for those who seem to know most of the vocabulary. I remember trying to learn Korean. The alphabet and vocabulary isn't that hard, but when it comes to actually speaking it, I found it extremely difficult.

I keep reading good influences. Sure they brought good influences but never without an objective. In the words of Desmond Tutu "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."

Judaism, Christianity and Islam are bit interrelated, once one of these religion enter others also comes slowly like Islam in Korea, Fun part is all three hate each other.

3:20 Koreans Don't threat anyone, they don't even force they actually ask politely.

Okay first of all you as a Christian. Should be keeping the seventhday as expressed to you in the commandments and the life if Jesus! Just in case you don't know Saturday would be consider the sabbath.

I heard there's a decline in all religions. Why not go back to what worked in the past: Helping people. I think all churches would benefit from this. I'm talking about there being real world benefits to belonging to a church. Any group benefits the members by being a support network. Preachers need to teach the members to be supportive of one another. They need to sacrifice for one another and go out of their way. Bending over backwards, going the extra mile. Especially for those who are really in need. Even the fringe members. The casual attenders need to be treated the best sometimes because they are probably the ones with the most need. This is how you help your community. It's not by food drives or picking a school to give loaded backpacks to. It's by helping those first time attenders. That's how you reach the community. Form strong relationships with them. They are the little ones Jesus talked about. The first shall be last and the last first.

There has to be a God humans are sooo complexed my prayers go out to all u non believers....love u all! Its a scary thought that if u all was wrong then u will go to hell :''( praying for you all

atheist: "we smart. yay science. boo religion!" christian: "yay jesus, yay love, yay faith hmm people? love people? why? being gay is bad right?" Everyone can judge, few people can actually leave aside their own egos and focus on empathizing with others.

Wouldn't it be better for Koreans to stick to their culture and religion which they had for 1500 years?