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There is also a lot of concern about religious events that attract many people ahead of the weekend. Following Catholicism and Buddhist Jogyejong, many large churches have said they will stop religious events, but some churches still do not make decisions.

Reporter Kim Jung-woo reports.

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Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul decided to replace the service with online worship for the next two weeks.

By yesterday (27th), the plan was to reduce some of the services but changed positions.

[Park, Kyung-Pyo / President of the Yoido Full Gospel Church: It is difficult not to worship Sunday in a large church. But I think that people's safety is more important than that.]

The Church of Love, which has 100,000 members, also decided to stop worshiping for two weeks.

It responded to the government's appeal to refrain from religious gatherings.

[Park Yang-Woo / Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism: I plead with you to refrain from religious gatherings for the time being in order to prevent the self-infection of mass infections and events.]

There is a great concern that Corona 19 can spread through religious gatherings with large numbers of people, but there are still a lot of places to offer weekend worship.

Of the 15 large churches in Seoul and the metropolitan area, six churches, including the Gwanglim Church, the Youngrak Church, and the Chunghyun Church, are deferring the decision to cancel the weekend service.

Among them, a survey of 500 Protestants showed that 71% of respondents agreed to stop the weekend service.

(Video coverage: Park Dae-young, Video editing: Hwang Ji-young, Source: Korea Christian Pastoral Association)