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It’s Friday, October 9th, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)

By Adam McManus

South Korea’s troubled election and Christian persecution

Something stinks in South Korea.

After the suspicious election of Lee Myung as South Korea’s new president on June 3, 2025 in which there was a drastic shortage of paper ballots, which some have claimed mounts to election fraud, there has been ample evidence of growing hostility to Christianity.

For example, South Korean authorities detained six Americans on June 27, 2025 after they attempted to send 1,600 plastic bottles containing miniature Bibles into North Korea by sea, reported International Christian Concern. The Americans were investigated because they allegedly violated the law on disaster management when they reportedly threw the bottles, which also included USB sticks, money, and rice, into the sea, hoping North Koreans would eventually find them washed up on their shore.

Then, South Korean Pastor Son Hyun-bo of Segero Church in Busan was arrested on September 8, 2025 for interviewing a Christian School Superintendent candidate, Jeong Seung-yoon, during a church service and uploading a video of the conversation to social media.  The Christian was running against a South Korean government candidate who supported sexual perversion in the school curriculum.  For that, Pastor Hyun-bo was jailed for 145 days, without conviction, as he underscored the need for Christians to vote their Biblical convictions.

In a CBN report, the South Korean pastor expressed alarm at what the government is doing.

HYUN-BO: “When the left-wing government came into power, freedom of religion is being suppressed. There is an amendment to the civil code that has been proposed that states: