Religion in Korea
As the South hosts the Winter Olympics and the North courts controversy for its nuclear tests, we explore what we know about religion in Korea and its unique links with Wales.
With one more week to go, the Winter Olympics will continue to fascinate, excite (and maybe terrify) with some of the most spectacular and dangerous of sporting feats. They will also be drawing attention to South Korea, the host nation usually completely overshadowed in the headlines by the activities of its neighbour in the north.
On All Things Considered this week Roy Jenkins and guests ask what do we know about these two apparently very different countries which were one less than 70 years ago? And what, in particular, about the astonishing contrast in their attitudes to religion? ...the world's largest churches in one, in the other prison camp, torture and worse for professing a religious faith of any kind.
There's particular reason for interest in Wales: many Welsh soldiers served in the war which left the country divided, and from the previous century a young Welshman, Robert Jermain Thomas, is honoured as Korean's first Protestant martyr.
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