Korea
A Demographic Switch: The Korean Family Changes
Some days I wonder if I am in the same Korea that I came to in 1969. Things have changed so much. Korean society is probably one of the fastest changing societies in the world over such a short period …
Categories: Front Story, Korea Updates
The Big Columban Family: Formation Highlights
Fr. Thomas Seungwon Nam, Rector of the formation program in the Korean Region, provides the following update about life in the formation house in Seoul: While many of us have had an “Is it over?” experience, an experience or change …
Categories: Korea Updates, Vocations Pages
Catholicism in Korea: The Evolution of Mission
South Korea is a nation that looks and feels rich, peaceful and confi dent. The claim to a prosperous future is tangible, although some imagination is needed to appreciate the political and economic changes that have taken place over recent …
Categories: Korea Updates, Reflection Writings
Mission Today in Korea
Over the last five years my work in Korea involved visiting parishes to talk about mission and invite people to join in Columban mission. During those visits I inevitably met people whose lives had been touched by Columbans. Fr. Donal …
Categories: Korea Updates, Reflection Writings
From Wilderness to Vineyard: The Evangelization of Jeju Island
Fr. Patrick McGlinchey, a native of Donegal, Ireland, has spent all his missionary life on the Island of Jeju about eighty miles off the southern coast of South Korea. Fr. McGlinchey finds the island a good place to live, with …
Categories: Korea Updates
The Old and the New: Columbans Then and Now
In 2008, Columbans in Korea celebrated the 75th anniversary of their arrival in the country. The first group of ten Columbans arrived in the port of Busan on the last Sunday in October 1933, the feast of Christ the King. …
Categories: Front Feature, Korea Updates
Room at the Inn
A Shelter for HIV/AIDS Patients Columban Sr. Miriam Cousins began her ministry in Korea in 1971 and today is working with AIDS patients in a number of shelters she set up to accommodate them. Her original intention was to counsel …
Categories: Front Feature, Korea Updates
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Across the Divide: Missionaries In Their Own Land
Three Korean couples, who have been friends of mine for years, came to visit me while I was on holiday in Ireland a few years ago. As I was showing them around my own area in Conamara one day I …
Categories: Korea Updates
Who doesn’t have memories of being called to the table with the love and intimacy that comes with a life shared day-to- day? These also were Jesus’ words to His beloved ones
