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Salvation sect hits streets to avoid witch hunt
Members of Salvation sect are launching a demonstration in front of KBS's main hall to nullify their religion's tainted image, which they argued was staged by broadcasters' unfair reports.
By Ko Dong-hwan
By Ko Dong-hwan
Members of the heathen Salvation sect, better known as “Guwon-pa,” hit the streets to defy becoming a target of a witch hunt staged by news outlets, according to JoongAng Ilbo Tuesday.
With its official religious nomination being the Evangelical Baptist Church, some 800 members of the sect pulled themselves together in front of a broadcaster KBS’s main hall in Yeouido Tuesday at around 2 p.m.
They all wore black suits and yellow ribbons to express their unionized sympathy toward victims of the Sewol ferry tragedy.
They shouted that the Salvation sect has no direct link to the tragedy as the nation’s major broadcasters have reported.
A member of the sect argued the broadcasters forged a false link between Sewol’s disgraceful captain Lee Joon-seok, Salvation sect and an Odaeyang accident in 1987 to dress the sect as a social evil.
He said Lee is not a sect member, and only 10 percent of employees of Cheonghaejin Marine, which owns Sewol, are members of the sect, contrary to 90 percent as reported by news outlets.