Editing Jung Myung-seok (section)

== Early life ==
Jung Myung-seok was born in 1945.<ref name="theaustralian" /><ref name="heresystudies">{{cite book |author=이대복 |script-title=ko:이단종합연구 |trans-title=Comprehensive Heresy Studies |language=ko |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q20LAQAAMAAJ |access-date=9 November 2013 |year=2000 |publisher=기독교이단문제연구소 |page=647 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103001055/http://books.google.com/books?id=Q20LAQAAMAAJ |archive-date=3 January 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> He is also known by the names of Joshua Jung, Joshua Lee,  and Pastor Joshua.<ref name="Sydney Morning Herald">{{cite news |last=Cubby |first=Ben |date=10 March 2007 |title=Claims sect using social groups to recruit members |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] | url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/claims-sect-using-social-groups-to-recruit-members/2007/03/09/1173166991757.html |url-status=live |access-date=28 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107115116/http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/claims-sect-using-social-groups-to-recruit-members/2007/03/09/1173166991757.html |archive-date=7 November 2012 }}</ref><ref name="song-nocut">{{Cite web |date=2 April 2012 |editor-last=Schwartzman |editor-first=Nathan |title=Seoul: Former JMS cult members tell their stories |url=http://asiancorrespondent.com/79421/seoul-former-jms-cult-members-tell-their-stories/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716075906/http://asiancorrespondent.com/79421/seoul-former-jms-cult-members-tell-their-stories/ |archive-date=16 July 2015 |website=[[Asian Correspondent]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cultnews.com/2014/04/south-korean-cult-jms-recruiting-students-at-us-universities/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522191733/http://www.cultnews.com/2014/04/south-korean-cult-jms-recruiting-students-at-us-universities/ |archive-date=22 May 2014 |title=South Korean 'cult' JMS recruiting students at US universities |publisher=[[Rick Alan Ross|Cult News]] | last=Miller |first=Mallory |date=8 April 2014 |access-date=20 September 2015}}</ref> According to an interview with [[Providence (religious movement)|Providence]]'s Director of External Affairs in 2020, Jung graduated from the Methodist [[Wesley Theological Seminary]] in 1983, completed an executive management program at the graduate school of Administration, [[Chungnam National University|Chungnam University]] in 1998, and received an honorary doctorate of philosophy from [[Open University of Sri Lanka]] in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Kyung-sik |date=14 February 2020 |title=VISIT WOLMYEONGDONG, THE CENTER OF PROVIDENCE, GOD'S NEW HISTORY |url=http://www.koreapost.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=20307 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621210144/http://www.koreapost.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=20307 |archive-date=21 June 2020 |access-date=19 June 2020 |website=The Korea Post |language=ko}}</ref>