Protestant Spirit in Korean Mind: Korean Non-Church Christian Principles of Localizing the Universal Gospel

One of the keywords that represent our contemporary world would be “globalization,” which includes an intensively growing consciousness of the one world in which worldwide mutual interdependences are required. Rapid technological developments in communication and transportation have surely produced the world as a unified system. In the early period of globalization, especially along with the collapse of communist-socialist system, considerable numbers of scholars, represented by Francis Fukuyama, Global Context Our experiences in globalization, however, have also shown different aspects: reactions from locals, more than often accompanying violence, rather than a harmonious and homogeneous world order and life styles. Scholars who see such a complex reality have developed concepts that could explain different aspects of globalization. John Tomlinson, an expert in culture and communication theories, for example, suggests the concept of “complex connectivity” of globalization which made loose the connection of the locality and its local culture and increase the speed and density of mutual connectivity and dependency. anticipated globalization as a homogenous unification of the world, which they mostly meant the Western: politically liberal, economically capitalist, and culturally Euro-American world. In some aspects, it is empirically true that the Western/American culture travels on global scale, making tremendous influences on local cultures.