Jung Myung Seok

Jung Myung Seok

Infobox Korean name
hangul=정명석
rr=Jeong Myeong(-)seok
mr=Chŏng Myŏng-sŏk

Jung Myung Seok (born February 17 1945) is a South Korean religious leader and self-proclaimed messiah.cite news| url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2008/02/23/56/0302000000AEN20080223001200315F.HTML| title=Religious sect leader formally arrested on rape charges| publisher=Yonhap| date=2008-02-23| accessdate=2008-02-27] He is also known by the names of Joshua Jung, Joshua Lee Jung, Joshua Lee, and JMS. [cite news| url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/claims-sect-using-social-groups-to-recruit-members/2007/03/09/1173166991757.html| title=Claims sect using social groups to recruit members| publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald| date=2001-03-10| accessdate=2008-02-27]

Jung originally fled Korea in 1999 after rape accusations surfaced and was officially charged in 2001. [cite web| url=http://www.npa.go.kr/eng/visitor/visitorView.jsp?seq=406| title=Visitor board| publisher=Korean National Police Agency| date=2005-07-04| accessdate=2008-02-27] After nearly 9 years on the run, [cite news| url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/2008/02/21/143806/China-extradites.htm| title=China extradites chief of alleged S. Korean rapist cult| publisher=AFP, The China Post| date=2008-02-21| accessdate=2008-02-27] Jung was finally captured by Chinese police in May 2007.cite news| url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21732554-2703,00.html| title=Asian Cult Leader Arrested| publisher=The Australian| date=2007-05-15|accessdate=2008-02-27] [cite news| url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,272712,00.html| title=Alleged South Korean Rape Cult Leader Arrested in China| publisher=Fox News| date=2007-05-16| accessdate=2008-02-27] Besides rape, Jung has also been charged of fraud, sexual abuse, and embezzlement.cite web| url=http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2886496| title=Cult boss extradited to face sex raps| publisher=JoongAng Ilbo| date=2008-02-21| accessdate=2008-02-27]

In January 2008, South Korea's Supreme Court found that Jung forced two female followers to have sex with him as part of a religious purification ritual. [cite news| url=http://nuri.donga.com/nurinews/view.php?k_id=200801110239&m=2|publisher=DongA|title=JMS 정명석씨, 신도 성폭행 6천만원 위자료 확정|date=2008-01-11|accessdate=2008-01-27] In August 2008, Jung was convicted of raping five of his followers and sentenced to six years imprisonment. He was unrepentant, repeating the claim that it was a ritual for salvation. [cite news| url=http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2008/08/13/200808130034.asp|publisher=Korea Herald|title=JMS leader sentenced to 6 years|date=2008-08-13|accessdate=2008-08-15]

Early biography

Jung was born in the small village Wolmyeong-dong, located in Geumsan County, South Chungcheong province, South Korea.

In the 1970s Jung was a member of the Unification Church, before breaking off to create the dissent group [cite web| url=http://www.cnrs.fr/Cnrspresse/n400/html/en400foot03.htm| title=After the Moon sect: South Korea and indoctrination through the sacred game of football| publisher=CNRS| last=Luca| first=Nathalie| month=March | year=2002| accessdate=2008-02-27] now known as Providence around 1980 in South Korea.cite news|publisher=Asahi Shimbun|date=2006-08-03|title=Guru said to have raped prospective brides before mass weddings] [cite news|publisher=Asahi Shimbun|date=2006-07-28|title=Concerns raised about cult led by fugitive]

In 1999, Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) in Korea reported about sexual abuse allegedly committed by Jung. This resulted in Jung fleeing the country one day later. [cite web| url=http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s2168234.htm| title=China extradites SKorea cult leader| publisher=Radio Australia| date=2008-02-21| accessdate=2008-02-27] However, accusations surfaced in other countries, and in 2001 he was investigated by Taiwanese authorities causing him to flee Taiwan.

Jung was arrested in 2003 for illegal stay in Hong Kong but when released on bail, fled the extradition hearing. [cite web| url=http://www.npa.go.kr/eng/visitor/visitorView.jsp?seq=167| title=Visitor Board| publisher=Korean National Police Agency| date=2003-09-21| accessdate=2006-11-21] [cite news| url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22998981-23109,00.html| title=Accused rapist cult leader faces extradition to Korea| publisher=News Limited| date=2008-01-02| accessdate=2008-02-27] Following this, he managed to evade capture until May 2007 in China. He was extradited back to South Korea on February 20, 2008.cite web| url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/20/asia/AS-GEN-SKorea-Cult-Leader.php| title=South Korean religious sect leader extradited from China to face rape charges| publisher=International Herald Tribune, AP| date=2008-02-20| accessdate=2008-02-27]

Jung’s teaching

Jung believes he has come to finish the incomplete message and mission of Jesus Christ, asserting that he is the Messiah and has the responsibility to save all mankind. [cite news| url=http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2007/05/117_2823.html| title=Suspect of Corrupt Cult Founder Arrested in China| publisher=The Korea Times| date=2007-05-13| accessdate=2008-02-27] Jung claims that the Christian doctrine of resurrection is false but that people can be saved through him. [cite news| url=http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/02/113_19368.html| title=Cult Leader Extradited to Korea| publisher=The Korea Times| date=2008-02-21| accessdate=2008-02-27]

Critics say Jung's teachings pretty clearly derived from the Unification church.cite news| title='Love' cult snares student|publisher=Japan Times|date=2002-10-27] (See Unification theology, Divine Principle.) The main differences is that:

#it identifies Jung as the Messiah (rather than Sun Myung Moon)
#it teaches that original sin, originating in Eve's intercourse with Satan, can be defeated by intercourse with the Savior [cite news|publisher=Associated Press Television News| date=2008-02-20|accessdate=2008-02-29|title=STORY NUMBER: 554980|url=http://www.aptnvideo.net/pages/browse/player/player_frameset.jsp?item=83457] [cite news|publisher=Crisscross News|date=2006-07-27|title=South Korean cult merges sex with prayer| accessdate=2006-07-27]

Marriages must be approved by Jung, and both partners must have been in Providence for at least 3 years, read the Bible 3 times, and recruited 3 members according to former members.Fact|date=February 2008

Rape crimes

According to former members, "in order to gain the likes of their religious leader, the followers choose tall, pretty and young female victims as ‘sexual gifts’" and sends photos of them to Jung. Jung then "systematically goes through a process of choosing the girls from the photos that pleases him and calls upon (these girls) from overseas to rape them."cite web| url=http://news.media.daum.net/society/affair/200604/17/pressian/v12403807.html| title=反JMS "정명석 교주 성상납 관련 사진 공개"| accessdate=2007-01-20] According to Toyoshige Aizawa, a Christian minister engaged in weaning young people away from cults, Jung rapes them under the context "to atone for Adam and Eve's original sin, which was visited upon all mankind, it's necessary to engage in intercourse with the Lord." Afterwards, Jung's aides told them they would go to hell if they told anyone.cite news|publisher=Asahi Shimbun|title=2,000 Japanese join cult led by suspected sex offender on the run from Interpol|date=2006-07-26] A former member said "I couldn't understand what was happening to me while I was being sexually assaulted, I was so messed up in the head, and couldn't resist whatever the guru did."cite news|publisher=Asahi Shimbun|title=2,000 Japanese join cult led by suspected sex offender on the run from Interpol|date=2006-07-26|accessdate=2007-03-02 [http://www.rickross.com/reference/gacp/gacp6.html] ]

Former members have said, that when Jung was in Japan, "he stayed at his aides' homes in Osaka and Chiba prefectures, where he summoned up to 10 female followers almost every day and indecently assaulted them under the pretext of 'health checks'." In January 2007, police raided one such facility in Chiba, believing it to have been used by Jung to sexually assault female followers. [cite news|url=http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070118/kyodo/d8mnppj00.html| title=Police raid Setsuri cult facilities in Chiba| accessdate=2007-01-19]

Controversy

Reputation

Jung's religion is seen as a serious problem in Korea and Japan and as one of Asia's most notorious cults.

ecular organisations

Jung encourages his followers to form non-religious organisations for the purpose of attracting young people without initially revealing the religious nature of the group or their real motives.cite web| url=http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200608190106.html| title=Asahi Shimbun editorial: Another problem cult| accessdate=2006-12-19]

Response

In response to the rape allegations, Providence member Bae Jae-yong said that it was "distorted rumor that was created by the people who have slandered him" and that "all fundamental truth will be clarified by [Jung] at the prosecutor's office". (This was before he was convicted.)

Events since 2006

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In January 2007, police raided a total of 8 Providence facilities in Japan on suspicion a senior member illegally obtained residence status. [cite news|title=Police Raid More Setsuri Cult Facilities|publisher=Kyodo News|date=2007-01-18] The senior member, second in command of Providence's Japanese branch, fled to Taiwan according to law authorities. Taiwan has no criminal extradition treaty with Japan. [cite web| url=http://www.gaijinpot.com/read_news.php?id=9813&time=1| title=Police: Setsuri cult no. 2 in hiding in Taiwan| accessdate=2007-02-07]

References

External links

;Sites
* [http://www.jmscult.com jmscult.com] Largest English Internet resource website on JMS (critical)
* [http://www.providencetrial.com Providence Trial] - English language Providence related website authored by various members internationally
* [http://www.providencecult.com Providence Cult Watch] - A response to Jung's teachings by an orthodox Christian
* [http://www.apologeticsindex.org/416-jung-myung-seok Apologetics Index - Jung Myung Seok entry]
* [http://freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/g/global_association/ Freedom of Mind Center]
*languageicon|ko [http://www.antijms.net EXODUS] - South Korean non-governmental organisation against Jung's religion, formed by former followers of Jung.


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