Korean Religion

Korea has mainly three kinds of religion, Confucianism, Buddism and Christianity.

Starting the middle of the 20th century, Christianity could prosper and has competed with Buddhism. Christianity were affected by Korean Shamanism, Taoism and Buddhism.

With many people insist that Buddists are half of Koreans or Christians are half of Koreans, in 2005, the Korean government announced the statistics of the rate. roughly 46% of the Koreans don't have a particular religion. It means that they could be in Korean Shamanism and Confucianism. Christians are 29.2% of the population of which are Catholics 10.9% and Protestants 18.3%.

Islam is also in Korea. Not many people belive, but it's growing up with about 100,000 foreign workers and immigrants from Muslim countries.