Original article in Korean is at this link.

“You seem like a good person, have you traveled the ‘road’?” “Do you go to church? I would like to study the Bible together with you.”

With classes beginning in March and the number of students on campus increasing, members of evangelist groups from Christianity and other religions have been increasingly active. The problem is that their methods go beyond simple recommendations to methods, such as “grabbing and following”, “continually following and talking”, and “following home”, that cause students to feel ashamed, and some are calling them “campus pollution”.

On the afternoon of the 9th I met 20-year old Mr. Park, a new student, who said that “during orientation I met this one guy who said he was an older classmate and gave him my phone number, and once he knew that it turned out he wasn’t a classmate but actually a graduate… before asking me to go to church he would avoid me but after that I got text messages from him every day.”

21-year old Kim Ji-won, a female student, said that “when I was by myself it was like being followed by a ghost… one a rainy day I borrowed an umbrella from a new student who said they were my older classmate, and when I asked what classes they were taking they hemmed and hawed and said something about technology.”

We asked for examples of unpleasant situations on the online communities for various websites and many students said they wanted an end to evangelism activities. One user with the ID “2424″ on the community site for Hankuk University of Foreign Studies said that “I think it’s like they’ve invaded the campus… they really repulse me, I’d like to call the cops on them.”

Evangelist activities that cause a strong sense of shame among religous people, such as accosting people on the street and knocking on the doors of people’s homes, occur not only on university campuses. On major streets in Seoul it is common to have one’s way blocked by people urging you to join a particular religion.

Kind of seems like the article got cut off right when it was really getting going.