In Korea, Christmas isn't for family; it's for lovers.
the nation’s many singletons have been known to lament, “I want to go to sleep on the 22nd and wake up on the 26th.”
It’s not to avoid trite family probing about nonexistent wedding bells around a roast ham. Rather, it’s because Christmas is aFor Christmas, couples dine out at fancy restaurants with prix fixe menus and share sweet treats. Hotels promote special romantic package deals to the more amorous , while cheaper “love motels” will book up months in advance.
Government-sanctioned persecutions and massacres throughout the country sent Catholicism underground. Protestant missionaries were able to gain a more permanent foothold when Korea was officially forced open to Western trade following the Japanese Treaty of 1876. They were extremely successful in disseminating the religion byBy the 1930s, Protestantism was the most popular religion in the country , and acted as athroughout the Japanese occupation that followed, particularly when Koreans were forced to observe Japanese Shinto shrine worship.
There are a few theories on why Christianity took off in Korea when it didn’t in China or Japan. While Confucian values were the foundation on which Korea was built, Michael E. Robinson, a Korean history professor at Indiana University, posited that
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