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Wishwash
OK Innersound and your trainees, this is how things are going to move forward from this point. Everyday something is going to be posted online: trainee's name's , your grandmaster's speeches, your chants, your book of heaven- until everything is online- if you want to make it stop we want a video of Master Oh making a public apologye
Please include me in that apology. I'd be happy to refresh their memory if need be.
And personally I'd rather see that material online regardless. And that book of heaven sure sounds interesting. Could you send me a copy?
I have some more from Korean news sources, this one is a summary of a video report from SBS (Seoul Broadcasting Service) made in July 2008... a year after Ki Health invited the female leader described below to London. I haven't seen the actual video, but reports aired by the same show on other cults run around 50 minutes a piece. And it's particularly interesting because it is the only report I've come across since the conviction of the leaders 8 years earlier.
A summary of the report in Korean is online at the station's site at:
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news.sbs.co.kr]
Here is an English translation:
'돌아온교주' 그를따르는이유는
Why they follow the “returned leader”
An episode of “I Want to Know about That” (directed by Choi Sam Ho) broadcast on the 5th at 11:20 PM and entitled “Why the follow the ‘returned leader’” highlighted the true nature of the pseudo-religion and the latest damage caused by its swindling in the “Cheon Jon Hoe” incident, which took place in January of 2000. It also analyzed the social and psychological mechanisms of people who were unable to escape from their blind trust of the pseudo-religion.
Last May, the “I Want to Know about That” production crew received information from a Mrs. A, who said, “I was attacked indiscriminately by an armed assailant”. Information showed that the armed assailant belonged to a religious group led by a Ms. Park, the previous leader of Cheon Jon Hoe.
The Cheon Jon Hoe incident occurred in 2000. The leader of Cheon Jon Hoe and his wife were arrested after receiving over 150,000,000,000 won from followers believing the world was about to end. The self-styled Heavenly Father (Mr. Mo) and Heavenly Mother (Ms. Park) claimed to be the reincarnated representatives of the supreme deity on earth. They collected large sums of money from believers, encouraging donations under the pretext of building a shrine to remain after the end of the world. Meanwhile, most believers went into debt, lost jobs and homes, and were forced out into the street. The couple received eight years and five years prison sentences, respectively.
According to information collected by the production crew, Ms. Park was released from prison in 2005 and gathered former Cheon Jon Hoe believers again and changed the story to suggest that she alone was the supreme deity’s representative on Earth.
Once again there were victims. The victims were compelled to give over 10,000,000,000 won to the leader. Believers offered all their assets and went into debt in order to pay the leader, while the leader was riding in a sedan chair, eating high-quality, multi-course dinners, and living a life of luxury.
Pseudo-religious group leaders are sentenced and serve out sentences, or corruption surfaces and religious groups are on the verge of collapse, however, leaders occasionally reappear, gathering strength again, and groups resurface.
The production crew wished to highlight that, “believers who have already been harmed are very often harmed again the same way by leaders” and that “because believers can’t escape from false beliefs, leaders seek out ways to make believers trust them.”