In Asia, Korea is the country with the highest percentage of Christians, and the Pope will visit it in August. To prepare for the event, a South Korean crew came to Italy to shoot a two-hour documentary about Pope Francis. The national broadcaster - the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation - will film not only the Pope and the Vatican but also the places of South Korean martyrs. This initiative has had profound effects on some members of the crew, who claim to have recovered a faith abandoned for years or even to have approached for the first time a Church they did not know. With the help of the episcopal conference and the bishop of Daejon Lazzaro You Heung-sik they have prepared the Italian part of the documentary, which will also contain visits to the places (which the pope will also go to) where some Christian martyrs died in Korea. Han Hak Su, the producer of the documentary, said: “I am an atheist, because I don't feel the existence of God in my heart, but something strange is happening inside me. I didn't know anything about the Church in Korea, I didn't know that it had so many martyrs and that the word of God had come to us through laymen. This prompted me to learn more.” And one of the journalists said: “I am a Catholic but I had left the church years ago. I decided to go back as soon as I got back to Korea, and the first thing I want to do is confess".
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