He is remembered in South Korea for his role in starting the first male monastic order in the peninsula, as well as for his extensive photos and videos of Korean culture and civilization.

[1] In 1909, Weber dispatched two missionaries to Korea in order to establish a monastic community there.

He hoped to document as much as he could, as he was concerned that the Empire of Japan, which had colonized Korea in 1910, was going to wipe out Korean culture.

After he returned to Germany, he edited his footage together and recorded additional clips of him lecturing on various aspects of Korean society, technology, and language.

[2] In 1979, the South Korean broadcaster MBC acquired copies of his feature-length film on VHS and showed it for the first time on the peninsula.