My new job is at Soongsil University, which is a Christian school founded by missionaries. Korean faculty are required to be Christian. Foreign faculty are supposedly exempt, or so I was told by my boss, who knows I'm not Christian.
Even so, I signed a employment contract with a clause about agreeing to behave like a good Christian (it was in Korean, so I'm not quite sure of the wording). I figured, I'll behave ethically and leave it at that.
It seems Korean Christians don't get what "I'm not Christian" entirely means. My second week on the job my boss invited me to come to the chapel and give a blessing. After some awkwardness over the following week, she let me know it was fine with her if I didn't do it.
Yesterday I found out that my personnel file has me listed as Roman Catholic. I don't know why, but I'm guessing it was because they had to put something down in that space. And whoever was doing the paperwork just chose RC.
It's all been kind of amusing and bizarre, actually.
The students are a blast though.
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