The suspects from Grace Road Church (GRC), which has established itself in business chains across the Pacific island nation, were given a reprieve last week by Fiji’s High Court, which ruled they should be allowed to stay in the country,…[Continue Reading...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 21 (Yonhap) -- Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded a 30-year prison term for the leader of a controversial religious group charged with sexual assault. Jeong Myeong-seok, who leads the Jesus Morning Star (JMS) group, is accused of raping and…[Continue Reading...]
On August 7 KST, the group's agency Dongyo Entertainment took to their official fan cafe to give fans an update on Kyoungyoon's hiatus, which started in April so that he could receive treatment for his anxiety and sociophobia. According to…[Continue Reading...]
A South Korean cult has been accused of recruiting vulnerable young Australian women at shopping centres to be brainwashed and then sent abroad. The victims were told they were the 'spiritual brides' of Jung Myung Seok (JMS), the self-proclaimed second coming…[Continue Reading...]
A guided tour through the sinister caves of a cult compound in rural South Korea where members are sexually assaulted wasn’t quite what I’d envisaged for my first Spotlight assignment. But in a world-first, that’s where the crew and I…[Continue Reading...]
SEOUL - Two aides of South Korea religious leader Jeong Myeong-seok, who was previously convicted with the sexual molestation of his female followers, were arrested on Tuesday as accomplices to the pastor’s alleged sex crimes. A court in Daejeon issued…[Continue Reading...]
(REVIEW) “In The Name of God: A Holy Betrayal” is a riveting Netflix docuseries revisiting some of South Korea’s most prominent cult leaders. The eight-episode series covered Jesus Morning Star, Five Oceans, The Baby Garden, and the God of Manmim…[Continue Reading...]
Fiji’s newly elected government has launched a probe into a South Korean doomsday sect, after an OCCRP investigation exposed how the religious group had come to be a dominating force in the Pacific nation’s economy. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka told…[Continue Reading...]
The man who assassinated former Abe Shinzo in July 2022 was motivated by the belief that the former prime minister was linked to a religious group known as the Unification Church. It was subsequently revealed that in fact many Diet…[Continue Reading...]
Lee Byung-gul, the chief executive officer of South Korea’s failed cryptocurrency exchange V Global, will serve 25 years in prison after his conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court of Korea on Friday. The court upheld an appeal court’s sentence…[Continue Reading...]
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