Missionaries in Afghanistan

The government is racing to ban images related to the hostages. Already a ton of pictures I haven't seen are gone. The Metropolitician found a website that hosts some additional pictures, which has now been officially banned by the government. It can likely be accessed in other countries, but in Korea this big warning message pops up.

Here's a group photo of the missionary group, seemingly before they left.

This picture (on the left) will likely be the most famous picture of the missionaries. It shows them standing in front of a sign at the airport in Korea which warns not to go to Afghanistan unless absolutely necessary. They seem unconcerned with the danger and even laughing at it.

Most of these pictures come from the CyWorld page of the girl in the group photo who's been circled, Lee Seonyoung.

Here are some pictures of Koreans with Afghani children in what appears to be a school setting.

A CyWorld video was placed on YouTube showing the Koreans leading the children in a prayer, teaching them how to use certain phrases in a language they don't even understand.

They taught the Afghani kids how to sing a Christian hymn in Korean, at least according to the blogspot site (whose text I don't put much trust in).

Singing hymns in public.

Here are some pictures of a Korean cultural event which seems to show taekwondo and dancing.

Here are the missionaries at Vavawali Shahiv, a grave for an important Muslim. Muslims come there to read the Koran, so the Koreans sang hymns.

No explanation on these, but I think some of them come from the grave pictured above.

Here is a file I found online that looks like someone made cramming together some of the parts of the CyWorld page. It all seems to be sites shown above, mainly the grave and the mosque they visited to sing more hymns in.

The comment bit in the left on the middle shows what some Koreans said about them after they were taken hostage and the site was discovered. Not a lot of sympathy. The picture below that shows their Muslim guide praying. The writer mentioned that they prayed for him every time he prayed, asking God to let him discover the truth someday.

CBS contacted one of the hostages, Yim Hyun-joo, pictured below. She told reporters how they were all suffering and urged them to do a prisoner trade, releasing terrorists in exchange for their lives.

Here are some additional pictures I rounded up while combing the Internet for these images. Here are a few goofy ones of popstar Lee Hyori on a publicity excursion to Africa.

And here's a picture that shows how much respect some Christians have for Buddhists in Korea. It's not too surprising people like this would go to other countries and do pretty well the same thing to violent Muslims.