I was intrigued by the question asked a couple weeks back concerning Korea's embrace of Christianity as compared to China and Japan. I asked my 'Asiaphile' friend, he wasn't sure why either, but theorized that perhaps it was timing and a reaction to the enforced Shintoism that the Koreans had to swallow for many many years. It may not been the actual elements of Prostestantism that attracted the Koreans at the time, but the prospect of embracing something so obviously different?