Long ago, maybe around 1994, I took a slow train from Pusan - or Busan, if you insist - to Seoul. (No KTX bullet train in those days; though that's been having its problems lately.) [1] It was October, and I spent much of the journey just watching the colors of autumn roll by.
My seat companion was colorful too. A student recently qualified in Oriental medicine, he was about to go to China, then newly opened to South Koreans. But his real aim, he confided with some excitement, was not strictly medicinal: "Chinese people, they don't know Jesus!"
This was my first encounter with what is now a global phenomenon. Koreans are tireless rankers. The world's seventh-largest exporter of goods is also its second-largest exporter of missionaries, after the United States. According to the Korea World Missions Association (KWMA), their number has nearly doubled in five years from 12,159 in 2004 to 22,130 in 2009. More...
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