SaRang Community Church

SaRang Community Church is a Presbyterian Church in Seoul, Korea with over 60,000 members.[1]

SaRang Community Church
Location	Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea
Country	South Korea
Denomination	Presbyterian
History
Founded	1978
Founder(s)	Rev. Han-Heum Oak
Clergy
Senior pastor(s)	Rev. Jung-Hyun Oh

SaRang Community Church

SaRang, one of several megachurches in Korea, was founded in 1978 by Rev. Oak Han-heum. At Pastor Oak's death in 2010, the church attracted 40,000 worshipers every Sunday and had 80,000 members.[2][3]

In 2003 Pastor Oak announced his retirement, eschewing the Korean custom of passing a pastorship on to one of the children of the retiring pastor, Oak named Rev. Oh Jung-hyun as the new pastor.[2]

In 2007 SaRang extended its worldwide mission to Europe and the United Kingdom, announcing its sponsorship of the Wales Evangelical School of Theology.[1]

In 2013, the church opened the largest underground church chapel,[4] but it extended its underground area under a nearby public road. [5] The supreme court of Korea ruled that the chapel made the area "socially, economically, and culturally limited in access ― unable to serve public purposes for nearby residents," according to a subsequent report.