The release of the 19 hostages in Afghanistan has caused Korean Christians to evaluate its future mission work in foreign countries.
Releasing a statement, the Christian Council of Korea said they would cooperate with government measures and exercise restraint on missionary work being conducted in dangerous regions of the world.
"Korean Christianity will take the incident as a moment to reflect on itself. We'll cooperate with the government and we promise to be cautious over missionary work in dangerous regions," the Council said in the statement.
The passion of the missionary is good, said Reverend Sohn In-woong who is the head of the Korean National Association of Christian Pastors, but they tried to evangelise people of other nations without having adequate knowledge or preparation.
"With strong enthusiasm, Christians try to evangelize in regions of different cultures and different religions without enough preparation and knowledge," Reverend Sohn told the Korea Times.
The President of Open Doors USA, Dr. Carl Moeller, said that regardless of government restrictions on Christians, they would still go to these regions no matter how high the cost is.
"Governments may want to use this in future cases as an opportunity to appease the Taliban or other extremist groups, but I can say also clearly that there are always going to be Christians who go where faith costs the most, no matter what the government's restrictions might be," he said.
The New York Times publication reported that an estimated 17,000 Korean missionaries were sent overseas which is the second largest in country in the world to do so after the U.S.