Churches Hope for Gospelization of Korea
Koreans Hyped Up as Busan Franklin Graham Festival Opens
By Lillian Kwon
Christian Post Reporter
Fri, Oct. 19 2007

Churches in Busan, South Korea, have invited evangelist Franklin Graham to their metropolitan city in hopes of reviving a country that had once witnessed one of the greatest Christian movements in East Asia.

Sang Gyoo Lee, a professor of church history at Kosin University, Busan, stands outside Busan Asiad Stadium, where evangelist Franklin Graham kicked off a large-scale four-day evangelistic festival on Thursday, October 18, 2007. Sang has studied the historical backdrop for the Busan Franklin Graham Festival Oct. 18-21.

It's the centennial year of the great Pyongyang Revival, which had sparked a wave of audible prayers of repentance and rapidly grew Christianity from what is now the capital of North Korea to across the Korean peninsula. Pyongyang had earned the title "Jerusalem of the East" as it became the center of Christian activity up until the Korean War.

A century later, the Korean population is fervently praying for another revival today and Graham is in the country aiming to unite the citizens of Busan to God, he said at a press conference before kicking off a large-scale evangelistic festival on Thursday at Busan Asiad Stadium. the rest