>>573>implying what happens in LA applies to the homelandI'll tell you one thing I have heard, OP, from Christian friends in Korea.
During the early/mid-90s, just a few short years after the dictatorship era, Prayer Mountain (I can't remember its actual name, but it's about the only mountain near Seoul) would be flooded with people praying (funnily enough). This is a long tradition dating to the Japanese occupation and even before, and got a boost during the dictatorships. (Wikipedia knows it.)
In addition, people would attend church at 4:30 in the morning not for a service, but to pray. Early morning prayer groups were common in Seoul and Inchon (and probably elsewhere). They'd pray for hours upon hours and then go to work, come home and repeat the process.
However, my friends report that the memory of the dictators is gone, the "pressing need" has evaporated, and that prosperity has made people, or perhaps made the next generation, ambivalent about these ideas. Besides people are so busy (yes, that old chestnut) these days that they can't be so devoted. So, early morning prayer groups is exclusively older people or non-existent. Prayer mountain is a lot less prayerful. Prayer is that thing you do in your home, when you have a few spare minutes, not the lengthy corporate exercise it was.
I think reading between the lines, I get the impression they felt prosperity had largely killed the fervor people previously felt, had eroded belief to being more about identification and church attendance on Sunday. Various pastoral scandals won't have helped the next generation engage fully.
That said, it is still fairly common to see street evangelists.
Pic related: two of the Soshi are said to be pretty devout Christians, Tiffany the imported Korean-American, and Sooyoung, the one east Asian Christians (partic. Filipinos), seemingly identify with. But, I also think I've read that at least 7 of the 9 ("nine" *snicker*) are Christians by religion, which leaves five more allegedly Christian Soshi that perhaps prosperity's talons have drained of faith.
Who can know or understand these things.