Editing Dami Mission (section)

===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/>