Religion
In 1956, cut off from church authorities in their homeland, the remaining Russian Orthodox believers in Seoul merged with the Korean Orthodox Church, a branch of the Greek Orthodox Church; by 1984, only one of the pre-war Russian communicants remained. In the 1990s, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia established a mission in South Korea. Both the Korean Orthodox Church and the Korean ROCOR mission serve mostly ethnic Korean believers, though they are open to people of all ethnicities.
Russians in Pyongyang have sometimes been served by Orthodox clergy sent from Vladivostok since 2002. A Russian Orthodox church was opened in Pyongyang in 2004 at the order of Kim Jong-il after his visit to the church of Innocent of Irkutsk in Khabarovsk.
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