An Immigrant Theology for Korean Diaspora Church in the United States

From 2000 to 2005, this author was sent by the Korean Methodist Church to be a missionary in Singapore, and to establish a missionary training center in Singapore for cross cultural missionary candidates, who are mostly raised in the mono-cultural context of South Korea. He experienced and realized that Koreans who have been raised in a mono-cultural environment find it very difficult to understand another culture. They hold strongly to their heritage and traditions and resist what is unfamiliar in another culture. They easily consider other cultures wrong, or lower than their own, because they are different. In other words, Koreans have a strong ethnocentric tendency.