From the time when a ceasefire between the two Koreas was declared without an ensuing peace accord, the war on the Korean Peninsula has been prolonged both physically and psychologically for more than fifty years. Recently, the tension between North and South Korea has even more escalated, as Pyongyang threatened to shut down the Kaesong Industrial Park run jointly by the two countries. In the presence of drastic social,economic, cultural formations and discourses, it is now imperative to re-envision Christian mission between the two Koreas that promotes the life and life-together beyond the strife and division. Peace and harmony must be restored, and communion and community reinstated. For this reason, in order to re-envision Christian mission between the two Koreas, this essay attempts to revisit a mission text beyond the current construct of selfand other. While retelling the mission narratives in the present, this essay reconstructs an alternative understanding of mission, especially between the two Koreas. By way of foregrounding the life of people living in the two Koreas, this essay evaluates as well as analyzes how a view of the mission text in the Bible and in the Gospel of Mark in particular relates to a specific geopolitical context in the Korean Peninsula. The critical reflections as such will allow us open to constant questioning and re-visioning how the mission remains, yet to be unfolded between and beyond the Korea(s).
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