A majority of South Koreans are irreligious. Christianity and Buddhism are the dominant confessions among those who affiliate with a formal religion.
The Jeondong Cathedral in Jeonju, North Jeolla.
A mudang holding a gut to placate the angry spirits of the dead.
bodhisattva altar in the Gaeamsa, Buan County, North Jeolla Province.
Three-storey stone pagoda of Bunhwangsa in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province.
The practice of Christianity is marginal in North Korea, but significant in South Korea, which has a population of 8.6 million Protestants, mostly Presbyterians, and 5.8 million Catholics. Christianit
Religion in South Korea
…Christianity with Korean nationalism was further reinforced by opposition to the Japanese effort to merge native Korean shamanism with State Shinto. Mostly Christian divisions. Mostly Buddhist divisions. With the division of Korea into two states after 1945, the North and the capitalist South, the majority of the…
The Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception at the Myeongdong Cathedral