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Korea's Filipino Missionary Mania

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Dec 24, 2008
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The hut fell silent. Under a single naked light bulb, Yaum Sumbad, 80, launched into a litany of complaints about the activities of Korean missionaries in an impoverished region of Mindoro island, about 250 kilometers south of Manila.

"Why are there so many different Korean churches here?" Sumbad asked as the evening rain beat against the wood…

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