The Korea Times: South Korean Buddhists’ Protest Poised for Long Haul

by Danny Fisher

The Korea Times is reporting a new development in the story coming out of Seoul: Over ten thousand South Korean temples representing twenty-seven different Buddhist orders held religious services simultaneously to protest the government’s perceived anti-Buddhist/pro-Christian bias. As the publication says, it now appears that South Korean Buddhists are in this fight “for the long haul.” For more on this story, take a look at a post of mine from last week.