Editing Evangelical Baptist Church of Korea

{{Short description|Christian new religious movement}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2014}}
{{Infobox Korean name
| title      = Evangelical Baptist Church
| hangul     = 기독교복음침례회
| hanja      = 基督教福音浸禮會
| rr         = Gidokgyo Bogeum Chimnyehoe
| mr         = Kidokkyo Pogŭm Ch'imnyehoe
| othername1 = Former name: Korean Evangelical Layman's Church
| hangul1    = 한국평신도복음선교회
| hanja1     = 韓國平信徒福音宣敎會
| rr1        = Hanguk Pyeongsindo Bogeum Seongyohoe
| mr1        = Han'guk P'yŏngsindo Pogŭm Sŏn'gyohoe
| othername2 = Colloquial name: "Salvation Sect"
| hangul2    = 구원파
| hanja2     = 救援派
| rr2        = Guwonpa
| mr2        = Kuwŏnp'a
}}

The '''Evangelical Baptist Church (EBC) of Korea'''{{r|"Chance 2014"}}{{r|"huffingtonpost5196923"}}{{r|"yahoo24107196"}}{{r|"koreatimes157420"}} ({{Korean|hangul=기독교복음침례회}}; officially '''Korean Evangelical Baptist Church'''{{r|"guidestar3777790"}} – formerly known as Korean Laymen's Evangelical Fellowship) was established in 1962 by [[Yoo Byung-eun]] and Pastor Kwon Shin-chan ({{lang|ko|권신찬}}; 1923{{ndash}}96).{{r|"reuters210514"}} The name of the church was changed to EBC in 1981.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2014-08-29 |title=구원파는 무엇을 믿는가 : 일반 조직신학 교리와 구원파의 교리 비교 |url=https://klef.co.kr/102 |access-date=2022-12-29 |website=구원파에 대한 오해와 진실 |language=ko |archive-date=29 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229011915/https://klef.co.kr/102 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is not connected to the [[Korea Baptist Convention]].{{r|"ssisunrelated"}}{{r|"koreatimes 2018"}} In South Korea, EBC is commonly known as ''Guwonpa'', meaning [[Salvation Sect]],{{r|"kukmindaily71111101"}} from the Korean term ''guwon'' ({{lang|ko|구원}}), "salvation".{{r|"koreatimes1"}}

Many sources{{vague|date=July 2021}} estimate that the movement has 20,000 members, but media reports on numbers of followers vary from 10,000 to as many as 200,000 members worldwide.{{r|"salvationsectsuspected"}}{{r|"yonhab240414"}}{{r|"koreaherald1"}} In 2014, the organization claimed to have 100,000 followers.{{r|"joins2"}}{{r|"searchcontinues"}}

Media outlets claimed that the EBC [[doctrine]]s teach that those who were once saved by [[God in Christianity|God]] are completely detached from the [[Christian views on sin|sins]] they will ever commit in the future and guaranteed a path to [[Heaven (Christianity)|heaven]].{{r|"koreatimes1"}} The EBC denied having any such doctrine.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Investigators Confirm Ownership of Ferry Operator |url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/05/09/2014050901411.html |access-date=2022-12-29 |website=[[The Chosun Ilbo]] |language=en |archive-date=29 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229011915/http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/05/09/2014050901411.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Although the conservative General Assembly of Presbyterian Churches called the movement a [[cult]],{{r|"salvationsectsuspected"}} in 1992, there was later a correction statement saying that the EBC preaches doctrines that are consistent with Christianity and does not contradict the Bible. Nor do they worship a particular individual as a religious sect leader.<ref name=":0" />

== Odaeyang mass suicide ==
In 1987 [[South Korean police]] were investigating accusations against a 48-year-old woman, Park Soon-ja, saying that she had swindled {{SK won|8.9|link=yes}} billion ({{US$|8.7}} million) from about 220 people.{{r|"apnewsarchive89524018"}}{{r|"Asiaweek 1987"}} Her company Odaeyang Trading Co. was a firm that fronted for a religious [[sect]] led by Park, which some reports claimed was connected to Yoo Byung-eun’s Evangelical Baptist Church (the Salvation Sect). However, after three separate investigations by the prosecution in 1987, 1989, and 1991 under different administrations, all concluded that it was not related to Yoo Byung-eun or the Evangelical Baptist Church and although corrections were issued, they were not widely publicized.{{r|"atimes220514"}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-24 |title=3차례 오대양 집단 자살사건의 조사 결과를 공개합니다 |url=https://klef.co.kr/328 |access-date=2025-10-23 |website=구원파에 대한 오해와 진실 |language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=입력 2014-11-03 18:13 |date=2014-11-03 |title=[정정보도문] "기독교복음침례회와 오대양" 관련 |url=https://www.ajunews.com/view/20141103181234741 |access-date=2025-10-23 |website=아주경제 |language=ko}}</ref> On 29 August, thirty-two members of the sect who believed in doomsday, including Park Soon-ja and her three children, were found dead, bound and gagged.{{r|"19870830nytimes"}}{{r|"Korea Annual 1988"}} The case became known as the ''Odaeyang mass suicide''. Police assumed the event was a [[murder–suicide]] pact, and the prosecution initially suspected that Yoo Byung-eun was linked to the case.{{r|"koreaherald2014052100"}}{{r|"yonhab240414"}} Also, there were claims that Park Soon-ja, the head of Odaeyang Church gave a large amount of money to the EBC members, and that the money flowed back to Semo. However, it was later found that this was a transaction between an EBC member and Park Soon-Ja before Odeyang was established <ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-03-04 |title=[오대양] 오대양의 자금이 구원파를 거쳐 세모 측으로 유입되었다? |url=https://klef.co.kr/244 |access-date=2022-12-29 |website=구원파에 대한 오해와 진실 |language=ko |archive-date=29 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229011915/https://klef.co.kr/244 |url-status=live }}</ref> and  the police closed the case as a mass suicide.{{r|"wsj1000142405"}}{{r|"20140423kwgn"}}{{r|"seoul2014042450"}}{{r|"koreatimes157651"}}. Yoo Byung-eun was arrested in connection with the Odaeyang incident, but investigations revealed that he was not involved in the case. However, after his arrest, he was convicted of "habitual fraud under the mask of religion" and sentenced to four years in prison for a separate, previously dismissed case, in which he had allegedly colluded with one of his employees to collect ₩12 billion (approximately US$1.15 million) from church members and invest it in his businesses. As a result, although he was not actually involved in the Odaeyang incident, he came to be perceived as the mastermind behind it.{{r|"sectsmoneytragedy"}}{{r|"ap230514"}}{{r|"watchdog"}}{{r|"20140423businesskorea"}}{{r|"reuters20140422"}}{{r|"Asiaweek 1991"}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=김 |first=성동 |title=[이슈인터뷰] 수사검사가 밝히는 오대양 사건의 진실 |url=http://m.monthly.chosun.com/client/news/viw.asp?ctcd=E&nNewsNumb=201409100009 |journal=월간조선}}</ref>
Yoo Byung-eun also maintained his innocence regarding the charges of habitual fraud.<ref>{{Cite news |last=장 |first=원준 |title=『내가 왜 오대양 사건 背後라는 누명을 쓰고 살아야 합니까? 어금니를 깨물며 억울함을 참습니다』 |url=https://monthly.chosun.com/client/news/viw.asp?nNewsNumb=199909100053}}</ref> In November 2014, the Incheon District Prosecutor's Office stated in a report that they did not find a prosecutable connection between Yoo's Evangelical Baptist Church and the Odaeyang incident.{{r|"News1 Korea 1936095"}}{{r|"donga67547224"}}

== Sinking of  ''Sewol'' ==
{{Main|Sinking of MV Sewol}}
The ferry ''Sewol'' capsized and sank on 16 April 2014, resulting in 304 people dead or missing,{{r|"reuters"}}{{r|"independent9435932"}} the second [[List of South Korean ferry disasters|worst ferry disaster in South Korean history]].{{r|"koreaherald2014041800"}}{{r|"reuters20140416"}} ''Sewol'' was operated by the company [[Chonghaejin Marine]], of which Yoo Byung-eun was the former chairman.{{r|"officesofsewol"}} Despite initial media reports, Yoo retired from Chonghaejin Marine Ltd in 1997, and had not been involved in this company’s operations since then.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Herald |first=Korea |date=2014-07-27 |title=Yoo's son denies embezzlement |url=https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140727000282 |access-date=2022-12-29 |website=[[The Korea Herald]] |language=en |archive-date=29 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229011915/https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140727000282 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Yoo Byung-eun was known to mainly have resided in a rural church compound called "Geumsuwon" ({{lang|ko|금수원}}) located east of [[Anseong]] in the [[Gyeonggi Province]] some {{Convert|80|km}} south of Seoul.{{r|"yonhapnews2014050201"}} Yoo had a photography workshop there, and according to his publicist Michael Ham, managing director of Ahae Press and co-director of Evangelical Media Group, Yoo began obsessively focusing on his photography work in 2009, spending every day completely dedicated to his photography for more than four years—allegedly taking about 2.7 million photographs during this time, all through one window.{{r|"ahaepressrelease20140425"}}{{r|"louvrepourtous1"}}{{r|"koreatimes156333"}} Members of the group run the {{Convert|760000|m2}} compound Geumsuwon as a [[Intentional community|commune]] where they grow organic produce and run a freshwater fish farm.{{r|"reuters210514"}}{{r|"koreatimes2"}}

On 23 April, investigators of the [[Incheon]] District Prosecutors' Office raided the head office of Chonghaejin Marine, and some 20 offices of its affiliates, as well as the office of the Evangelical Baptist Church in [[Yongsan]], central Seoul. Prosecutors initially suspected that funds from members of the religious group had been used in business operations of Chonghaejin Marine and Yoo Byung-eun.{{r|"yonhab240414"}}{{r|"yonhapnews2014042300"}} However, this suspicion turned out to be incorrect. Yoo Byung-eun did not embezzle from the EBC nor did he expand his businesses by its members' donations.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Ferry Owner Signed Property Over to Cult |url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/05/22/2014052201900.html |access-date=2022-12-29 |website=[[The Chosun Ilbo]] |language=en |archive-date=24 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524045618/http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/05/22/2014052201900.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 24 April, a financier of the Evangelical Baptist Church was summoned for questioning to trace deals between the group and companies run by Yoo and his two sons.{{r|"salvationsectsuspected"}}{{r|"20140528koreapost"}} Transcripts of land registers showed that four days later on 28 and 29 April, Yoo and his family signed over some 24 properties worth around {{SK won|27|link=no}} billion (~{{US$|26}} million) to the Evangelical Baptist Church.{{r|"chosun2014052201"}} It was later found that reports of his wealth incorrectly included real estate properties owned by farming associations, which had been established by church members.<ref name=":2" />

On 28 April, 600 members of the Evangelical Baptist Church staged a [[protest rally]] in front of the headquarters of the [[Korea Broadcasting System]] in [[Yeouido]], [[Seoul]] against media coverage of, and the investigation into the group's links to the operator of the ferry Sewol, denying suspicions that the Evangelical Baptist Church had cross-border transactions with affiliates of the ferry operator.{{r|"koreatimes156252"}}

Prosecutors warned on 24 May that anyone found helping Yoo in hiding would face up to three years in prison.{{r|"joins1"}} Four members of the EBC were arrested on 25 May for assisting Yoo to escape detection by the police.{{r|"searchcontinues"}}{{r|"arirang162937"}} On 26 May, EBC, in an apparent move to confuse investigators, said that Yoo might have returned early in the morning to Geumsuwon. A spokesperson for the church later announced that Yoo had not returned, further saying, "We hope Yoo doesn't get arrested. A 100,000 members will protect Yoo. Even if the entire congregation of 100,000 believers is arrested, we won't hand him over."{{r|"searchcontinues"}}{{r|"joins2"}} Lee Jae-ok, one of Yoo's close aides, was arrested on 26 May on charges of planning Yoo's life as a fugitive and helping him evade detection for weeks.{{r|"koreatimes1"}}{{r|"yonhapnews2014052700"}}

In July, an unidentified corpse that police had found in a plum field in [[Suncheon]] was confirmed as Yoo's.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-28413651 |title=S Korea ferry boss Yoo Byung-eun death confirmed |date=2014-07-22 |access-date=2024-08-05 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref>

== Notes ==
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| title     = Korea Annual
| url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=dCYIAAAAIAAJ
| year      = 1988
| publisher = Hapdong News Agency
| page      = 53
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| title        = K-pop heavyweight Park Jin-young denies preaching for religious cult
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| date         = 3 May 2018
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| last         = Kang
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| title        = Salvation sect stages protest rally
| work         = [[The Korea Times]]
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| last        = Lee
| first       = Hyo-sik
| title       = Arrest warrant issued for Yoo
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| last1       = Park
| first1      = Sang-hyun
| last2       = Yeara
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| archive-date = 13 May 2014
| work        = The Kukmin Daily
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| date        = 3 May 2014
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| trans-title = Ahae at Versailles&nbsp;— the privilege of money
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| title        = 구원파 및 유병언 회장 관련 정정 및 반론보도
| work         = News1 Korea
| date         = 3 November 2014
| access-date   = 10 November 2014
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| last        = Kim
| first       = Jung-yoon
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| archive-date = 19 April 2014
| title       = Offices of Sewol owner searched
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| publisher=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]
| date        = 19 April 2014
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| url         = https://www.reuters.com/article/korea-ship-missing-idUSL3N0N81P420140416
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| archive-date = 6 June 2014
| title       = More than 300 people missing after South Korea ferry sinks – coast guard
| work      = Reuters
| last        = Park
| first       = Ju-min
| date        = 16 April 2014
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<ref name="reuters20140416">{{cite news
| title       = Over 280 missing after South Korean ferry capsizes
| date        = 16 April 2014
| work      = Reuters
| url         = http://in.reuters.com/article/us-korea-ship-idINKBN0D205U20140416
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| last1       = Kim
| first1      = Mi-young
| last2       = Jin
| first2      = Hyun-joo
| url         = http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-korea-ship-company-idUKBREA3L0TS20140422
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| archive-date = 31 May 2014
| title       = Company that owned ill-fated South Korea ferry has chequered past
| work      = Reuters
| date        = 22 April 2014
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| last        = Park
| first       = Ju-min
| url         = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-ferry-idUSBREA4K03M20140521
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| archive-date = 9 June 2014
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| work      = Reuters
| date        = 21 May 2014
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| last        = Kang
| first       = Hyun-kyung
| url         = https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/04/113_156136.html
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| archive-date = 26 April 2014
| title       = 'Salvation sect' suspected of backing Yoo's business
| work        = The Korea Times
| date        = 26 April 2014
| url-status  = live
| access-date  = 23 July 2021
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| last        = Kim
| first       = Da-ye
| url         = https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/05/116_157915.html
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20140527214029/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/05/116_157915.html
| archive-date = 27 May 2014
| title       = Search for Yoo continues after raids
| work        = The Korea Times
| date        = 26 May 2014
| url-status  = live
| access-date  = 27 May 2014
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| last        = Seo
| first       = Ji-eun
| url         = http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2989684
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| archive-date = 27 May 2014
| title       = Sects, money and tragedy have history in Korea
| work=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]
| publisher=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]
| date        = 26 May 2014
| access-date  = 27 May 2014
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<ref name="seoul2014042450">{{cite news
| script-title = ko:오대양사건, 유병언 세모 회장과 어떤 관계?...檢 유병언 일가 집중 수사
| url          = http://www.seoul.co.kr/news/newsView.php?id=20140424500079
| archive-url   = https://web.archive.org/web/20140520220430/http://www.seoul.co.kr/news/newsView.php?id=20140424500079
| archive-date  = 20 May 2014
| access-date   = 20 May 2014
| newspaper    = Seoul News
| date         = 24 April 2014
| language     = Korean
| trans-title  = The Odaeyang Incident, What does it have to do with Yoo, the former president of Semo Co.? ... The Prosecutors are investigating
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<ref name="ssisunrelated">{{cite news
| last        = Paek
| first       = Sang-hyun
| url         = http://www.kukmindaily.co.kr/article/view.asp?page=2&gCode=7111&arcid=0008269019&code=71111101
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20140606213133/http://www.kukmindaily.co.kr/article/view.asp?page=2&gCode=7111&arcid=0008269019&code=71111101
| archive-date = 6 June 2014
| title       = Salvation Sect is Unrelated to Korean Church; Yu is Fraudulent Peddler of Unknown Religion
| work        = The Kukmin Daily
| date        = 25 April 2014
| access-date  = 6 June 2014
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<ref name="watchdog">{{cite news
| url         = http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2014/04/25/38/0503000000AEN20140425002600320F.html
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| archive-date = 24 May 2014
| title       = Watchdog widens probe in all affiliates of Sewol operator
| publisher   = English.yonhapnews.co.kr
| agency      = [[Yonhap]]
| date        = 25 April 2014
| access-date  = 23 May 2014
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| last         = Jun
| first        = Kwanwoo
| title        = Patriarch of Family That Controls Ferry Operator Ends Silence
| url          = https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304393704579529423901586230
| access-date   = 19 May 2014
| newspaper    = The Wall Street Journal
| date         = 28 April 2014
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| archive-date = 7 June 2014
| title       = S. Korea ferry owner seeks asylum: report
| work        = The West Australian
| publisher   = Yahoo! News
| agency      = Agence France-Presse
| date        = 3 June 2014
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| url         = http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2014/04/24/15/0200000000AEN20140424005500315F.html
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| archive-date = 24 May 2014
| title       = Prosecution looks into cult in ferry accident probe
| publisher   = English.yonhapnews.co.kr
| agency      = [[Yonhap]]
| date        = 24 April 2014
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| url          = http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2014/04/23/0200000000AEN20140423003400315.html
| title        = Prosecution raided sunken ferry operator, affiliates
| publisher    = English.yonhapnews.co.kr
| agency       = [[Yonhap]]
| date         = 23 April 2014
| access-date   = 23 June 2014
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| publisher    = Engsales.yonhapnews.co.kr
| agency       = [[Yonhap]]
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| archive-date = 27 May 2014
| title       = Manhunt for fugitive ferry owner closing in: prosecution
| publisher   = English.yonhapnews.co.kr
| agency      = [[Yonhap]]
| date        = 27 May 2014
| access-date  = 27 May 2014
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