scholarly journals Ethnic Insularity Among 1.5- and Second-Generation Korean American Christians

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Z. Park
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Korean American

New Missions with a New Generation: The Experiences of Korean American Churches and Missions

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-182
Author(s):  
Dae Sung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Korean Immigrants ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Generation Immigrant ◽  
Immigrant Churches ◽  
The Us ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
New Generation ◽  
American Churches

Korean immigrants have continued to form Protestant churches in the US and to contribute to overseas missions. As the American-born second generation grows, however, ethnic congregations of Koreans are experiencing generational struggles. These new challenges represent the potential for Korean American churches to broaden their missionary perspective and empower their missionary practices. Through gathering and witnessing with the second generation, immigrant churches can transform their churches into missionary communities that evangelize and cooperate with other Asian Americans. Second-generation Christians can also lead the immigrant churches to reach other ethnic groups in the US beyond their Korean enclaves.

Struggles of Korean Second-Generation Leaders: Leaving the Immigrant Church

2020 ◽  
pp. 239693932093023
Author(s):  
Eunice Hong
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Immigrant Church ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Korean Immigrant Church ◽  
Intercultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Base

The Korean immigrant church has served as not only a religious institution but also a cultural base for the first generation of immigrants, who have a common interest in keeping their traditional values. Such an emphasis, however, has resulted in conflicts between the first and second generations. The purpose of this study is to explain the struggles of second-generation Korean American leaders that led them away from the first-generation immigrant church. Two main elements of the Asian culture emerged as the source of the intercultural identity struggle: (1) striving to maintain the honor balance and (2) struggling with due order.

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