Difference between Chinese and Korean 4

• Culture: Korea is famous for its soap operas (which are exported all over the world) and K-pop music (like Gangnam Style by Psy, the most-watched YouTube video in history). China is famous for its cinema, especially Hong Kong—movie stars like Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, and Jet Li are worldwide icons, but you can trace this all the way back to Bruce Lee in the 1960s.
• Climate: Because China is geographically huge, it has a variety of climates. Half of the country is in the tropics, whereas half the country has a climate similar to North America. Korea is more like North American climate, having no part of its country in the tropics.
• Christianity: Koreans are very Christian. Something like 40% of South Korea is Christian. Whereas Christians are more like 10% of China. But, while Korea has the per capita stat on its side, China once again beats out the competition by sheer size. Though in the U.S. you may see just as many Chinese as Korean Christians (go to any college campus and you’ll find that InterVarsity and Campus Crusade, for example, are dominated by Chinese and Koreans), for Koreans being a pastor is a highly-valued status symbol whereas in Chinese culture it’s not. So there are many more Korean pastors in the U.S. than Chinese pastors.