Lee Man-hee & Shincheonji: Articles & Selected Videos 1: 2011-Feb. 2020

[Peter Daley]

February 28-29, 2020

Feb. 28: Investigations into Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in Singapore (Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs Press Release)

Feb. 28: Investigations into Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in Singapore (Singapore Ministry Of Home Affairs)

Feb. 28: Lee Man-hee is Already Banned From Leaving The Country - Charged With Embezzlement (Channel A - Pagoda/Naver Translation Available Here)

Feb. 28: South Korean Cult's Activities in Singapore Mirror Its Shadowy Operations Elsewhere (The Straits Times)

Feb. 28: About 1,600 Shincheonji Followers on Self Quarantine (Yonhap News)

Feb. 28: South Korean Officials Search For Almost 3,000 Religious Group Members (CNN)

Feb. 28: Secretive Cult Behind the Korean Coronavirus Outbreak has Branches in Australia (The Age & Sydney Morning Herald)

Feb. 28: Minister Shanmugam on The Singapore Chapter of The South Korean Shincheonji Cult Being Investigated by MHA (Channel News Asia)

Feb. 28: 1,638 Shincheonji Members with Coronavirus Symptoms under Self-Quarantine (KBS World Radio)

Feb. 28: Who is Lee Man-hee and Why is his Secretive Church Linked to Half South Korea's Coronavirus Cases? (South China Morning Post Video)

Feb. 28: Gov't Tracks Down Shincheonji Adherents & Many Feel Ill (Korea JoongAng Daily)

Feb. 28: MHA Looking to Ban Activities of Singapore Chapter of Church at Centre of South Korea's Coronavirus Outbreak (The Straits Times)

Feb. 28: Stop witch hunt, says Shincheonji (The Korea Herald)

Feb. 28: 'We're Treated Like Criminals': South Korean Sect Feels Coronavirus Backlash (Nemo Kim for The Guardian)

Feb. 28: Sect to Hand over Full List of Followers, But Doubts Remain (Chosun Ilbo)

Ironically Lee himself has gone into hiding, and many followers also keep refusing to answer calls from health workers to show up for checkups. ... On Sunday, the spokesman said the sect has 245,000 followers, but it later only submitted a list of 215,000, raising suspicions about its candor.

Feb. 29: Seoul Government Threatens to File Complaints If Lee Man-hee Does Not Undergo Examination of Covid-19 (Christianity Daily)

Feb. 29: 'Shy' Coronavirus Patients Thwart Quarantine Efforts (Chosun Ilbo)

Korean Cases Soar, Shincheonji Fingerprint Scanners Face Suspicion (Andrew Salmon for The Asia Times)

Feb. 29: Hong Kong Group Has Links to Shincheonji Sect at Centre of South Korea's Coronavirus Outbreak (John Power for South China Morning Post)

Feb. 29: Followers of Sect Tracked Down (Korea JoongAng Daily)

As the cat and mouse game between Shincheonji and the government continues, Daegu Mayor Kwon Young-jin announced Friday he would press criminal charges against the operators of Shincheonji's Daegu church for "causing confusion" with the city's measures to contain the outbreak by refusing several times to submit the list of about 1,760 trainees living in Daegu. Kwon continued that the church also failed to submit the list of Shincheonji followers in Daegu who attend a different Shincheonji church outside the city, which amounts to about 222 people.

In an exclusive report Friday morning, the JoongAng Ilbo hinted at possible links between Shincheonji and a group of Catholics from North Gyeongsang who recently tested positive for the coronavirus after returning from a pilgrimage to Israel, saying that the son of a member of the Catholic group is a Shincheonji follower. The son and father both tested positive for the virus. The Euiseong County Office in North Gyeongsang told the paper Thursday that the son initially denied he was a Shincheonji adherent, but admitted it after county officials found him on the nationwide list of members.

Feb. 29: Shincheonji Under Fire For Uncooperative Response to Coronavirus (The Korea Herald)

Feb. 29: 42 Shincheonji Followers Came to Korea From Wuhan Over Eight Months (The Korea Times)