SEOUL - Alhamdulillah, Muslims in South Korea already have a complete Koran with a Korean translation. A South Korean cleric Hamid Choi Yong Kil, is a cleric who managed to become the first Korean to translate the Koran into Korean.
As reported by the media Iqna.ir on Wednesday (5/1/2022) that the Koran project with a Korean translation has taken about seven years. Apart from being a preacher, Hamid Coi Yong Kil also works as a lecturer in Islamic Studies and Arabic at a university in South Korea.
He was educated at the Islamic University of Medina, Saudi Arabia. The works that Choi has translated into Korean are part of his scholarly work.
As of January 2022, Hamid Choi has also written about 90 other books, both independently and in translation. This happened at a time when the Muslim population in South Korea was slowly increasing significantly.
Although Islam in South Korea is still a minority religion, Islam there has experienced significant growth over the past decade due to tourism and returns.
According to estimates by the Korean Muslim Federation, the current number of Muslims in the ginseng country (as of January 2022) has reached about 200,000, which is only 0.38 percent of the total population of South Korea.
Of the total number of Korean Muslims, the majority consist of students and also workers from Turkey, Pakistan and Uzbekistan who have later transferred Korean citizenship.
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