Do Koreans believe that Jesus is a Korean?

If anything, the paintings from the video look like pictographic representations of the Bible story. In an era where much of Korea was largely illiterate, such illustrations would have been used to spread the gospel. How would a Korean illustrator be able to imagine Israel or Jerusalem, having never seen either? read more

The Korean Christianity I'm aware of represents Jesus as the "Kenny Loggins" white guy with a brown beard from North American Evangelical Sunday School propaganda. Christianity has existed in Korea for a long time, but the current influx of it dates to US military presence there starting after WWII. read more

First, as noted above, even if only at the level of North Korean folk religion, it’s not only American Christians who attribute divine powers to the Kims; ordinary North Koreans regularly do so as well (as North Korean defectors readily attest). read more