{"id":10261,"date":"2019-03-19T11:25:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T02:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/?p=10261"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:51:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:51:56","slug":"vomk-report-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/2019\/03\/19\/vomk-report-46\/","title":{"rendered":"NORTH KOREANS COME TO BELIEVE IN GOD THROUGH SECULAR MOVIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Much has been reported about North Koreans watching Korean dramas inside North Korea and how these dramas inspire them to defect to South Korea or desire a more prosperous material life. But NGO Voice of the Martyrs Korea is reporting that North Koreans watching these and other videos are desiring a more spiritual life also. It is a phenomenon Voice of the Martyrs Korea board chair Hyun Sook Foley calls \u201cMovie Discipleship.\u201d” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:1.2em|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Noto%20Sans%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” el_class=”headline”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row overlay_dotted=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]
\n\u201cMovie disciples are North Koreans who begin to believe in and pray to God because of scenes they see in secular movies and dramas that mention God or Christian themes or which show church buildings or Bibles,\u201d Voice of the Martyrs Korea board chair Hyun Sook Foley explains. \u201cOften, these movies are not explicitly Christian and the religion featured in them is an afterthought to most viewers. But for North Koreans, the references to religion are becoming more and more of interest.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]According to Foley, even Indian \u201cBollywood\u201d movies are stirring North Koreans\u2019 hunger for God.
\n\u201cIndian movies and South Korean dramas sometimes show church buildings, crosses, and pictures of Jesus,\u201d Foley explains. \u201cA character might even say something like, \u2018I pray to God.\u2019 Since North Koreans have never seen these things before, they often ask our contacts, who are underground Christians, about them. This opens the door to discipleship.\u201d
\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row overlay_dotted=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]Voice of the Martyrs Korea, Foley\u2019s organization, has been smuggling Christian materials into North Korea for years, including popular Christian movies with high production values.
\n\u201cEven older movies like \u2018The Ten Commandments\u2019 or \u2018Ben Hur\u2019 are extremely popular with North Koreans. A few years ago we made an animated story of the life of Jesus called \u2018He Lived Among Us\u2019, which placed special emphasis on the persecution he faced. Now, North Koreans are \u2018re-discovering\u2019 these movies, as a spiritual hunger spreads. They\u2019re looking for something more than economic success.\u201d
\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”10289″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]
\nAnimated story of the life of Jesus \u300cHe Lived Among Us\u300d[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\u201cAudiences around the world are watching Tortured for Christ just because it\u2019s a well-made film with a powerful message, but we think North Koreans will be especially receptive to the movie\u2019s message,\u201d says Foley. \u201cNorth Koreans are wrongly taught that Christian pastors made Communists suffer. But this movie shows the truth. It shows Christians suffering under Communists but still praying for them and loving them.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Foley hopes South Korean ministries will send more dramas than sermons to North Korea, so that \u201cmovie discipleship\u201d can continue to grow. She also encourages South Korean Christians to watch Voice of the Martyrs Korea\u2019s new \u201cTortured for Christ\u201d movie as well, saying that she expects it will produce a \u201cmovie discipleship\u201d of its own among South Koreans Christians as well. Voice of the Martyrs Korea held the South Korean debut last night to a full house of more than 100 theatre goers at its Jeongneung event hall. A second free showing will happen on April 13 at 3PM at the same location. Pre-registration is required by calling the Voice of the Martyrs Korea office at 02-2065-0703. The movie is also available to be shown at churches. Call Voice of the Martyrs Korea for more information. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”10282″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text alignment=”center”]
\nmovie \u300cTortured for Christ\u300d [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This month Voice of the Martyrs Korea also begin to smuggle into North Korea the new movie Tortured for Christ, the story of Romanian pastor and VOM founder Richard Wurmbrand, who remains faithful to God despite 14 years of torture in a Communist prison. The movie, filmed in Romania using well-known actors and a popular American producer\/director of Christian movies, has already been well-received in the US, Australia, and Europe. Voice of the Martyrs Korea\u2019s Korean language version also debuts in South Korea this month.
\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Much has been reported about North Koreans watching Korean dramas inside North Korea and how these dramas inspire them to defect to South Korea or desire a more prosperous …","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":10313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vomk-report"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en","zh","ru"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"zh":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}