Ban and opposition to syncretic aspects
Fundamentalist Christians continue to oppose the syncretic aspects of the culture including confucian traditions and ancestral rites practiced even by the secular people and followers of other faiths.[57][58][59] Mantienne, Frédéric 1999 Monseigneur Pigneau de Béhaine, Editions Eglises d'Asie, 128 Rue du Bac, Paris, ISSN 1275-6865 ISBN 2-914402-20-1, pp.177-82.</ref>[60][43] Consequently, many Korean Christians, specially protestants, have abandoned these native Korean traditions.[61][62] Protestants in Korea have a history of attacking Buddhism and other traditional religions of Korea with arson and vandalism of temple and statues, some of these hostile acts have been promoted by the church.[37]
After the ban on syncretic traditions was lifted by the Pope,[57] Korean Catholics still observe jesa (ancestral rites); the Korean tradition is very different from the institutional religious ancestral worship that is found in China and Japan and can be easily integrated as ancillary to Catholicism. Orthodox and Protestants, by contrast, have completely abandoned the practice.[48]
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