The short answer
The Living Bread maps 387 Christian churches in South Korea in its open, verifiable directory. This is a growing sample from open data, not a national total, so the real number is far higher.South Korea in context
51.5 millionpopulation
31.0%Christian (Korea Research survey, 2025)
16 millionChristians (approx.)
387churches we map
The churches of South Korea are Protestant 20%, Roman Catholic 11%.
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Browse the 387 churches we map, by city, with denomination and location where the open data records it.
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Population from Wikidata; Christian share from Korea Research survey (2025); church directory from OpenStreetMap, (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. A growing directory, not a national census. We never invent totals.
