Orthodox Christians

I met one English teacher in Korea who was originally from one of the former Soviet republics who was an Orthodox Christian. He showed me some paper or pamphlet on the history of this church in Korea. Turns out the first came about 100 years ago. There are beautiful Orthodox churches in all or most Korean major cities. There were pictures of the Orthodox priests with their long, white beards and black robes taken with Koreans 100 years ago. I have never seen anyone looking like that in Korea that's for sure. On top of that had I never met this teacher I never would've known about this.

I've met a lot of Korean Christians but not one which told me they belonged to this church. There are a lot of Russians living in Korea, also some people from Ukraine, Uzbekistan or other former USSR countries. Likely most of the members of these churches come from these countries. Also it's likely the Korean members are friends or family members of those people.