{"id":7152,"date":"2026-08-04T01:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/?p=7152"},"modified":"2026-08-05T01:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:10:49","slug":"koreas-catholic-farmers-battle-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/koreas-catholic-farmers-battle-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea\u2019s Catholic Farmers Battle Climate Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucanews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCA News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each morning, Rose Choi Seong-sun rises at five, works her fields until noon, then takes a rest to avoid the extreme midday heat before returning to tend her crops at around 4:00 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The routine may sound ordinary for a farmer, but for Choi, it has become a strategy for surviving a climate that feels increasingly hostile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not like it was ten years ago,\u201d said Choi, 63, who has run Antre Farm at Yeoncheon in South Korea\u2019s Gyeonggi province for 39 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe ultraviolet rays have only gotten so strong in the last two or three years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2023\/08\/catholic-climate-activists-decry-global-heat-wave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The sun isn\u2019t just hot<\/a>; it stings. It feels like my skin is burning,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even at dawn, she said, the temperature often feels well above 25 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen tropical nights continue, the heat built up overnight lingers until morning,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choi\u2019s experience reflects a wider anxiety in rural parts of South Korea. A 2024 survey by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krei.re.kr\/eng\/index.do\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Korea Rural Economic Institute<\/a> found that farmers across the country cited extreme weather events and changing cultivation conditions caused by climate change as the greatest threat to their livelihoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Choi\u2019s farm, those changes show up in small, unsettling ways. Mini pumpkins that should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2019\/11\/climate-change-and-our-food\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grow to the size<\/a> of an adult\u2019s fist are now reaching the size of a child\u2019s face. Butternut squash that once reliably bore fruit from spring to autumn now follow schedules she can no longer predict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt has become difficult to gauge how long they will continue to bear fruit,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such unpredictability reduces marketability and erodes income, even when yields appear healthy on the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After nearly four decades of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/09\/planting-climate-justice-in-the-philippines-miriam-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">farming<\/a>, experience that once served as a reliable guide now offers diminishing assurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A mission that overcomes difficulties<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choi cultivates roughly 20 types of vegetables \u2014 including chili peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, cabbage, lettuce and radishes \u2014 across about 3,000 pyeong (9,917 square meters) of farmland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten years ago, after joining the Catholic Farmers\u2019 Association, she gave up pesticides entirely. Founded in 1994, the association promotes eco-friendly farming practices among Catholic farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision made an already demanding occupation considerably harder. Without herbicides, weeds must be pulled by hand. Without pesticides, insects must be caught one by one. As temperatures rise and humidity increases, both spread faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOf course, I\u2019ve wanted to return to traditional farming methods,\u201d she admitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHowever, there needs to be people practicing pesticide-free and eco-friendly agriculture to supply the consumers who want it. I am continuing with this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/03\/god-walks-with-migrant-farmworkers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sense of mission<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her produce reaches consumers through the local food section of a nearby Hanaro Mart, contracted vendors, the Nanumteo living community of the diocese\u2019s Rural Revitalization Movement Headquarters, and the Myeongdong Boreumjang direct sales market in Seoul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 19, a special farmers\u2019 market was held there to mark Farmers\u2019 Sunday, celebrated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2023\/03\/fruits-of-the-seed-of-love-in-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Korea<\/a> on the third Sunday of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Filling gaps in rural communities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The market channels that keep Choi\u2019s farm connected to consumers also point to a deeper strain in rural communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate is not the only pressure farms like Choi\u2019s endure. In the surrounding villages, most farmers are in their seventies and eighties. At 63, Choi is considered young by local standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That demographic decline has made labor an urgent issue like the weather. Decades of <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10553378\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rural depopulation and aging<\/a> have turned foreign seasonal workers from a supplement into a necessity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the latest official data, the nation\u2019s farming population stands at roughly 2 million people or 974,000 households in an estimated population of 51.6 million. About 55 percent of the farming population is aged 65 and older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Antre Farm, that shift is visible in the people working the fields. Workers from Vietnam and Nepal now fill roles the local community can no longer supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Vietnamese worker identified only as Yang has started working this year. Wearing a battery-powered fan vest, he cuts grass with a sickle through the summer heat, under a sky that Choi says has grown harsher with each passing season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seen from her fields, the crisis of farming is therefore not hers alone to carry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choi called on consumers to choose domestic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2024\/03\/cultivating-mission-in-cochabamba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eco-friendly produce<\/a> even if it means spending slightly less on other items \u2014 a quiet argument that the relationship between urban consumers and rural farmers carries moral weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Church must remember farmers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That appeal also resonated beyond the farm. Father Joseph Park In-soo, head of the Uijeongbu Diocese Rural Revitalization Movement, echoed it as the Church marked its 31st Farmers\u2019 Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFarmers gain great strength and comfort in gatherings where urban consumers visit farms to help with work, listen to the farmers\u2019 difficulties, and share meals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He hopes \u201cthe Church remembers farmers and expresses the sentiment that \u2018we are with them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf we reflect on the fact that the meals we have every day comes from the sweat of farmers and the land of life, we will naturally come to realize the severity of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2021\/11\/afghan-farmers-facing-climate-induced-drought-hunger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate crisis<\/a> and the preciousness of agriculture,\u201d the priest said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Choi, such words return to the practical rhythm of the farm. The fields will be waiting again at five tomorrow morning \u2014 and the morning after that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is firm in continuing the standards of her farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI will not sell anything I wouldn\u2019t eat myself,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This feature was published by UCA News in partnership with the Catholic Times of Korea.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Featured image: South Korean Catholic farmer Rose Choi Seong-sun is seen on her farm in Uijeongbu city in South Korea\u2019s Gyeonggi province. 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