Spain colonize Vietnam or korea

If they did, would they be as successful in spreading Catholicism in the country as they were in the Philippines?
 
Could Spain colonize Vietnam or Korea in the 1700s or 1800s?
They were already overextended, with issues all the hasburgs war and now the borbouns one i doubt it.

If they did, would they be as successful in spreading Catholicism in the country as they were in the Philippines?
I doubt it, much like france later on, that would still being see as the religion of the invaders as both have organized paganism and buddism vs the tribes of the islands of phillipinnes
 
Kind off with the right POD and the right people living and dying.

Catholics were not the majority before the famines in the 17th-19th century in Luzon, reversing demographics of the famine in the 18th-19th century will doom catholicism in Luzon.
 
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