Evangelicalism

====South Korea====
{{main |Christianity in Korea}}

Protestant missionary activity in Asia was most successful in Korea. American Presbyterians and Methodists arrived in the 1880s and were well received. Between 1910 and 1945, when Korea was a Japanese colony, Christianity became in part an expression of nationalism in opposition to Japan's efforts to enforce the Japanese language and the Shinto religion.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Kane |first1=Danielle |title=The Puzzle of Korean Christianity: Geopolitical Networks and Religious Conversion in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia |journal=American Journal of Sociology |volume=115 |issue=2 |pages=365–404 |year=2009 |doi=10.1086/599246 |last2=Park |first2=Jung Mee|s2cid=143736997 }}.</ref> In 1914, out of 16 million people, there were 86,000 Protestants and 79,000 Catholics; by 1934, the numbers were 168,000 and 147,000. Presbyterian missionaries were especially successful.<ref>{{Citation |last=Latourette |first=Kenneth Scott |title=A history of the expansion of Christianity |volume=VII: Advance through Storm: A.D. 1914 and after, with concluding generalizations |pages=401–7 |year=1945}}.</ref> Since the Korean War (1950–53), many Korean Christians have migrated to the U.S., while those who remained behind have risen sharply in social and economic status. Most Korean Protestant churches in the 21st century emphasize their Evangelical heritage. Korean Evangelicalism is characterized by theological conservatism{{clarify |date=May 2013}} coupled with an emotional revivalist{{clarify |date=May 2013}} style. Most churches sponsor revival meetings once or twice a year. Missionary work is a high priority, with 13,000 men and women serving in missions across the world, putting Korea in second place just behind the US.<ref>{{Citation |last=Ryu |first=Dae Young |s2cid=162153162 |title=The Origin and Characteristics of Evangelical Protestantism in Korea at the Turn of the Twentieth Century |journal=Church History |volume=77 |issue=2 |pages=371–98 |year=2008 |doi=10.1017/S0009640708000589}}.</ref>
[[File:141225과천교회 성가대 크리스마스 축하공연66.jpg|thumb|Gwacheon Presbyterian Church in South Korea]]
Sukman argues that since 1945, Protestantism has been widely seen by Koreans as the religion of the middle class, youth, intellectuals, urbanites, and modernists.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite journal |last=Sukman |first=Jang |year=2004 |title=Historical Currents and Characteristics of Korean Protestantism after Liberation |journal=Korea Journal |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=133–156}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Samuel P. Huntington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LO4xG-bH1CQC&pg=PA101 |title=The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order |year=2007 |isbn=9781416561248 |page=101| publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref> It has been a powerful force{{dubious | date=May 2013}} supporting South Korea's pursuit of modernity and emulation{{dubious|date=May 2013}} of the United States, and opposition to the old Japanese colonialism and to the [[authoritarianism]] of North Korea.<ref>{{Citation |last=Sukman |first=Jang |title=Historical Currents and Characteristics of Korean Protestantism after Liberation |work=Korea Journal |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=133–56 |year=2004}}.</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=May 2013}}

South Korea has been referred as an "evangelical superpower" for being the home to some of the largest and most dynamic Christian churches in the world; South Korea is also second to the U.S. in the number of missionaries sent abroad.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.statepress.com/2011/03/09/professor-explains-religion%E2%80%99s-popularity-in-south-korea/ |title=Professor explains religion's popularity in South Korea |last=Ferguson |first=Tessa |date=March 9, 2011 |website=ASU News |publisher=The State Press |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219044105/http://www.statepress.com/2011/03/09/professor-explains-religion%e2%80%99s-popularity-in-south-korea/ |archive-date=February 19, 2015 |access-date=July 25, 2013 |place=Arizona State University}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=January 3, 2006 |title=Missions Incredible |url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/march/16.28.html |magazine=Christianity Today |access-date=July 25, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-6208-9780824833756.aspx |title=Born Again: Evangelicalism in Korea |date=June 14, 2013 |publisher=UH Press |access-date=July 25, 2013 |place=Hawai'i}}</ref>

According to 2015 South Korean census, 9.7&nbsp;million or 19.7 percent of the population described themselves as Protestants, many of whom belong to Presbyterian churches shaped by Evangelicalism.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://kosis.kr/statHtml/statHtml.do?orgId=101&tblId=DT_1PM1502&conn_path=I2 |title=KOSIS |website=kosis.kr |access-date=December 10, 2019}}</ref>