Wikipedia's article on Christianity in South Korea, community-edited. States Protestant Christianity's growth from roughly two percent of the population in 1945 to 18.4 percent, eight million people, by 1991, names the Presbyterian Church as the largest Protestant denomination through that growth, and describes a 1960s to 1980s "Conversion Boom" that outpaced growth in any other nation.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_South_Korea
Source Typereference
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for Presbyterianism's modern population-share growth curve in South Korea, from 1945 through 1991. NotesUsed for Presbyterianism's postwar growth in South Korea as a share of the national population.
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