The Courage to be One

Rev Prof Andrew Dutney was a speaker at one of the conversations at the World Council of Churches - United and Uniting Churches. He's uploaded the content of his input on his web page - an interesting read!
Here's a section reflecting on Korean churches, and Korean congregations in the UCA:

The UCA continues to be a uniting church in the sense of providing a space within which divided denominations can be reconciled. The experience of Korean ministers and church members in the UCA provides an example.
The Uniting Church has partnerships with the Presbyterian Church of Korea (PCK), the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK) and the Korean Methodist Church (KMC). During my visit to Korea last year the Moderator of the PCK spoke to me earnestly about the importance and difficulty of bringing together their divided denominations. He thought this might be one of the ways in which the UCA could help the PCK in the 21^st century.
Through Rev Park’s eyes I saw for the first time the ecumenical significance of the inauguration of a UCA Korean Presbytery.
In December 2011 the 23 Korean congregations in the NSW Synod were brought within the oversight of the new Presbytery. It was the latest development in a long process of enabling Korean speaking congregations and ministers to participate more fully in the Uniting Church. And I’m told that they are genuinely enthusiastic about the Uniting Church and especially its Basis of Union. In fact, a portion of each Presbytery meeting is devoted to studying the Basis of Union, one paragraph at a time.
I had generally viewed this process as a practical example of the church’s commitment to being authentically multicultural. And that’s certainly the way it was reported. But seen through the eyes of the PCK Moderator, it was primarily an example of the Uniting Church’s ecumenical commitment and achievement. The Uniting Church wasn’t uniting with the PCK, the PROK and/or the KMC. But ministers and members of those three denominations (and some others as well) were finding that the Uniting Church and its Basis of Union could facilitate their union in Australia – even while it was still too difficult in Korea.