South Korea’s culture is rooted heavily in the humanist ideology of Confucianism. Today, Christianity is the prominent religion with Buddhism as a close second. South Korea faces the challenge ...

Only 22% of Korean American Christians consider themselves close to Confucianism and a similar share (23%) feel close to Buddhism. By contrast, many Christians in South Korea feel a personal ...

But in Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong, only around a third or fewer adults say they feel connected to Confucianism. In all the places we surveyed aside from South Korea, people are more likely to say ...

South Korea’s main spy agency ... given Kim Jong Un’s relatively young age and North Korea’s Confucianism-influenced, male-nominated power structure. They had said the girl’s repeated ...

It’s one of South Korea’s largest mountainous national ... But when the Joseon dynasty, which championed Confucianism, came to power in 1392, Buddhists were forced out to rural areas.

In South Korea, people have traditionally perceived disability as ... one point of reference is a strong mental model of “normality” embedded in Confucianism and Buddhism. These belief systems have ...