Editing Dami Mission (section)

==Prediction==
Lee proclaimed that 144,000 believers would ascend into heaven on 28 October 1992, and those left on Earth would face "seven years of war, famine and other scourges" that would kill all life on the planet and bring about the [[Second Coming]] of Jesus Christ.<ref name=stir/> The prediction was reportedly based on a 16-year-old boy's [[Vision (spirituality)|vision]].<ref name=sci/>

Lee wrote a book titled ''Getting Close to the End'' which outlined his prediction<ref>{{cite book |last=Abanes |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Abanes |title=End-Time Visions: The Road to Armageddon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=urB1l-FH8-IC&q=lee+jang+rim |access-date=December 28, 2012 |year=1998 |publisher=Four Walls Eight Windows |isbn=1568581041 |page=6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Williams |first=John A |title=The Cost of Deception: The Seduction of Modern Myths and Urban Legends |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ODvXAAAAMAAJ&q=lee+jang+rim+1992 |access-date=December 28, 2012 |year=2001 |publisher=Broadman & Holman Publishers |isbn=978-0805423815 |page=151}}</ref> and the Dami Mission advertised in both the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<Ref name=sci/>

===Initial reactions ===
It was estimated up to 20,000 Koreans believed they would be taken into heaven at midnight on 28 October,<ref name=no>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-29-mn-925-story.html |title=No Doomsday Rapture for S. Korea Sect |last1=Watanabe |first1=Teresa |date=October 29, 1992 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=December 27, 2012}}</ref> causing a "social crisis" in Korea.<ref name=no/> A woman who had been trying to conceive for three years aborted the seven-month-old fetus, believing she should not be pregnant during the end times.<ref name=stir/> At least four followers suicided in anticipation.<ref name=no/> 

Chang-Young Mun, a 36-year-old man, died of [[malnutrition]] on September 8 after fasting for more than 40 days at a Dami Mission church in Los Angeles.<ref name=no/><ref name=stir/> He was one of 200 people taking part in the fast, and his death prompted calls for the Dami Mission church to be closed down.<ref name=no/> The civil authorities described it as a "dangerous cult" and other churches denounced it as "blasphemy".<ref name=stir/>

Police initially refused to investigate the church, citing [[freedom of religion]].<ref name=stir/> However, due to "social pressure", the church was investigated and Lee Jang Rim was arrested in September 1992<Ref name=no/> for fraud and illegal possession of $26,711 in American currency.<Ref name=stir/> Twenty-nine other people were charged with illegally passing out [[propaganda]]. Authorities put certain churches and evangelists under constant surveillance.<Ref name=stir/>

The [[Republic of Korea Armed Forces|South Korean military]] reported an increase in applications for early discharge and [[desertion]]s and announced that all material brought onto the barracks would be screened.<ref name=stir/>

Analysts tried to explain why so many well educated people could believe such a prediction. Han Wan Sang, a professor of social policy at [[Seoul National University]], said it reflected a deep despair among Koreans who are "troubled by a lack of progress in improving ties with North Korea and uncertainty over the domestic political situation."<ref name=stir/>

===October 28, 1992===
On October 28, 54 followers who were dressed in white clothing burned furniture outside the Dami Mission office in [[Wonju]]. Twenty followers in [[Busan]] left $22,000 to those who were expected to stay on earth following the rapture.<ref name=no/>

Even though their leader was in prison, 1,000 pilgrims still turned up to a Dami Mission church in [[Seoul]] on October 28.<ref name=no/> Police took measures to prevent [[Mass suicide|mass suicides]], including barricading windows and stairs to the roof. As midnight approached, 1500 riot police, 200 detectives, 100 journalists, plus emergency vehicles stood outside; plainclothes detectives were stationed inside.<ref name=no/> Ten minutes after midnight a boy shouted from a window: "Nothing's happening!"<ref name=no/>

No riots or further suicides were reported.<ref name=no/><ref name=sci>{{cite web |url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/notes_of_a_fringe-watcher |title=Notes of a Fringe-Watcher: The Second Coming of Jesus |last1=Gardner |first1=Martin |date=January 2000 |work=[[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] |access-date=December 27, 2012 |archive-date=March 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315164951/http://www.csicop.org/si/show/notes_of_a_fringe-watcher |url-status=dead }}</ref>