Father Patrick McMullan, known as Pat, describes his journey to Korea as very different from that of Fr Brennan.
''When I came to Korea it was at the end of the missionary-as-a-parish-priest era so effectively, I came into unemployment.''
He has been in South Korea for 17 years, arriving in 1984, but spent 10 years back in New Zealand.
When he first arrived, he was thrown into the fight for housing rights.
''I was involved in one of the early slum-area ministries. It was probably the prototype for a lot of what came afterwards as it was an area where people who had basically been pushed out of Seoul by development went to live. I was living in the midst of that.''
Then that area became a focus for redevelopment. Thanks to the work of Fr Brennan, however, ''I would suspect that in terms of redevelopment stuff, ours was really the first area that got reasonable compensation for the renters''. In 1995 the now 53-year old came home to New Zealand, returning to Korea in 2005 ''with no real job description''.
He quickly found his niche and became involved with a group home for adult males with disabilities who need full-time care.
''It's a development of the housing redevelopment struggle and the requirement to have homes for everyone.
''Normally the families have responsibility [for these people] but their families for whatever reason can't or won't take responsibility, or there is no family. We pick them up and they're usually in a pretty bad way: some have been living on the street, some are victims of exploitation of all kinds, some were begging, others the families ask you to take them 'cause they can't afford it, some are refugees from psychiatric care, as psychiatric care here is pretty brutal.
''On the other side of it, there are people with disabilities, intellectual, or others that have fallen off a building site and smashed their heads.''
Unlike Fr Brennan, Fr McMullan ''definitely'' calls New Zealand home.
''I'm definitely a New Zealander. More than that, I'm from Oamaru; New Zealand is my identity.
''Sometimes it can be a bad thing though. I had to say Mass at the same time as the Rugby World Cup final and people couldn't work out why I was so angry.''
- Sarah Marquet travelled to Korea with funding from the Asia New Zealand foundation, where she worked in the newsroom of one of South Korea's largest papers, the Joong Ang Daily.
