Protests

Each day, there are numerous protestors outside the BEXCO venue where WCC is being held. Some literally implore delegates to leave Korea, to leave the WCC. Some sing songs and hand out pamphlets. Some wear giant signs and some yell out in angry voices. The WCC delegates have been told not to engage in conversation, lest it escalates the considerable feelings already present.
The main complaints as I understand them are twofold: 1. the 'social liberal' values and agenda of WCC and 2. the interfaith dialogue - engaging with people of other faiths. Their hinge Scripture seems to be John 14.6 - no-one comes to the Father but through the Son.
The group is made up of 71 churches in South Korea showed that Koreans are passionate about their Christianity even if they don't all agree with the paths the churches are taking. One steward at the protest told Ecumenical News the WCC is "tainted by pluralism" by embracing different gods, communism, homosexuality and other lifestyles. Speakers said that these are condemned in the Bible. "Religious pluralism is heresy, denying the authority of the Bible, and is an Antichrist scheme aimed at rooting out Christianity," Song Chun-gil, a representative of the group told the Korea Herald newspaper on October 24.