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kjackson2012

This. The Catholic Church supports both the Theory of Evolution and the Big Bang Theory (no jokes about the TV show please). So don't blame the Catholic Church for this one. Given that South Korea is split between Catholics and Buddhists, it doesn't seem like there is a particularly religious reason for this trend.

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South Korean christians are mostly protestants, not catholics.

edit: it looks like Catholicism has been growing over the past 10 years, but there are still more Protestants.

In any case South Korea is not "split between Catholics and Buddhists," the largest denomination is Presbyterian and 46% identify as not religious at all.

My impression is that it's largely non-catholics these days, but JP2 canonized (or at least started the process for) hundreds if not thousands of Koreans.

     Christian        31.6% (Protestant 24%, Roman Catholic 7.6%)
     Buddhist         24.2%, 
     other or unknown  0.9%
     none             43.3% 
    (2010 survey)

(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...) People and Society section.

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