History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back THE FOUNDATION OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX SPIRITUAL MISSION IN KOREA O.A. Kurbatov The article deals with early missionary work in Korea, the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church Archimandrite and later Bishop Chrysanthus (Shatkovskogo). It contains material that reveals the peculiarities of Orthodox missionary activity among the local population of Korea. The difficulties encountered and the diffi culties encountered in the initial phase of the mission are described. The author comes to the conclusion that the success of our mission was less impressive than the achievements of the Western missions, in view of the fact that the Russian Orthodox mission played the role only a kind of «conductor» of the religious and cultural infl uence and did not seek to interfere in the internal Affairs of this country in contrast to the Western missions. Keywords: Christianity; missionary work; Church; activity; culture; religiosity; distribution; spirituality. DOI: 10.25791/intstg.05.2018.007 Contacts: Е-mail: kurbatvoleg@rambler.ru Pp. 71-77.