In recent years, during the process of learning Japan for socialization and popularization, South Korea has brought in the free-marriage and free-meat customs, which results in the opposition between free-marriage monks and general monks. The opposition is closely related to the Temple Ordinance promoted by the Japanese imperialist. After the liberation, under the support of the Syngman Rhee Government, South Korean monks launched Buddhist Cleansing Movement, taking popularization as their goal. Meanwhile, they treated the dominant free-marriage monks as the conservative ones as well as the evil Japanophile from the old society. Although general monks came into power and took over temples through the cleansing movement, internal disputes in Buddhism rose gradually, and finally came to the school division, which greatly influences the social status of the Buddhism.
