Editing Tabernacle Temple Church (section)

== Downfall & lawsuits ==
In 1971, the first official criminal report and lawsuit was filed against the Tabernacle Temple and the leaders including Yoo Jae-Yeol. Amongst the followers who filed the complaints were Lee Man-hee and Hong Jae-ho, the founders of ''[[Shincheonji Church of Jesus]]'', another pseudo-Christian group that is still active today in South Korea.<ref>[[File:Letter of Response to Lee Man-hee.jpg|thumb|Prosecution Office's response to Lee Man-hee]]
Prosecution Office’s Response to Lee Man Hee’s lawsuit filing evaluated on 1971.2.2</ref>

In September 1975, The Yeongdeungpo branch of the Seoul District Prosecutor's Office arrested four people, including the head of the Korean Christian Tabernacle Temple, Yoo Jae-yeol (26 years old at the time), Kim Chang-do (41 years old at the time), the deacon, and the leader's secretary, on charges of violating the Punishment Act such as fraud, identity theft and violence, as well as making false allegations against their members.<ref name="tabernacletempleroots" />

According to the prosecutor who investigated the tabernacle temple at the time, "the mortality rate was very high only where the tabernacle temple was located, and all the property of believers was extorted without providing meals".<ref>{{Cite web |title=豫備軍法(예비군법)등違反(위반) 帳幕聖殿教會(장막성전교회) 教主追加立件(교주추가입건) |url=https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.naver?articleId=1975092400209207015&edtNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1975-09-24&officeId=00020&pageNo=7&printNo=16609&publishType=00020 |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=NAVER Newslibrary}}</ref> Yoo gathered about 2,000 believers and moved them to Gwacheon go build a church building and a luxury house with the donations and labor of his followers. And while expanding the church, Yoo and many of the leaders continued to hijacked their members' houses, farms and rice fields by mortgaging them, but also robbed the believers' factories and sexually abused female members.<ref name="1975article" />

By October 1980, Pastor Oh Pyeong-ho took charge of the Tabernacle Temple organization, which was left-behind by Yoo, and seemed to be carrying out reforms. And according to Pastor Oh's testimony and Book 1 of ''The Story of Seoul's Urban Planning'' by Son Jeong-mok, regarding the development of Seoul Grand Park, the property of the Tabernacle Temple church in Makgye-ri was bought by Seoul metropolitan government and demolished for the construction of Seoul Land.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-07 |title=[이단타파] 실상상담-5 "과천장막성전 별 조작" |url=http://www.young119.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=691 |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=바로알자 |language=ko}}</ref>