Jun 16, 2026 · 50 min · 16 segments
In 2020, the police raided a large country home where multiple victims alleged they had been held against their will, beaten, and forced to work for upwards of 70 hours a week for free. When the…
Before Pastor Oh Jong-won was known as the architect of this human breeding farm, he was a formally ordained minister.
His name in the church was Pastor Oh David, but his legal name was Oh Jong-won, and he was part of a mainstream, highly traditional, orthodox Christian denomination known as the Assemblies of God.
Junghwan was ordained in May 1996, and by 2000, at the age of 33, Oh Junghwan was leading his own church known as the Ansan Yolbang Church, or the All Nations Church.
His church was small and in the basement of a larger building near Sangroksu Station in Ansan.
He was pushing radical ideas that required his followers to completely submit to him and cut themselves off entirely from the outside world.
He preached that his church was the only way to salvation and and was prescribing extreme repentance tasks for his followers.
But most importantly, donating to the church was mandatory, and it had to be in large quantities to be forgiven for your sins.
Coincidentally, he suddenly could afford to wear high-end designer clothing, wear multiple gemstone rings, and drive luxury sedans.
When questioned about his wealth, he claimed that these things were necessary for his ministry work.
At church, Pastor Oh Jung-hwan is preaching mostly cherry-picked manipulative texts to enforce his own system.
He's trying to brainwash his followers to believe that all of the other churches in the entire world, including those of the same religion as him, they're all being led by Satan.
He told his followers that he had received the reincarnated spirit of King David and could hear God's secret divine message hidden from humanity for the past 2,000 years.
As the months went on and people were giving him all of their money, he starts introducing intense, repetitive psychological conditioning exercises, which he says will cleanse them of their ancestral sins.
His followers are being taught that their entire family lineage were corrupted by historical sins and that they themselves must atone for all of the sins of their bloodline.
The only way to save their souls and their ancestors' souls is to visit his church daily and tithe.
Under this, he made them stay for most of the day, dedicating their lives and life savings to the church.
Before Pastor Oh Jong-won was known as the architect of this human breeding farm, he was a formally ordained minister.
His name in the church was Pastor Oh David, but his legal name was Oh Jong-won, and he was part of a mainstream, highly traditional, orthodox Christian denomination known as the Assemblies of God.
Junghwan was ordained in May 1996, and by 2000, at the age of 33, Oh Junghwan was leading his own church known as the Ansan Yolbang Church, or the All Nations Church.
His church was small and in the basement of a larger building near Sangroksu Station in Ansan.
He was pushing radical ideas that required his followers to completely submit to him and cut themselves off entirely from the outside world.
He preached that his church was the only way to salvation and and was prescribing extreme repentance tasks for his followers.
But most importantly, donating to the church was mandatory, and it had to be in large quantities to be forgiven for your sins.
Coincidentally, he suddenly could afford to wear high-end designer clothing, wear multiple gemstone rings, and drive luxury sedans.
When questioned about his wealth, he claimed that these things were necessary for his ministry work.
At church, Pastor Oh Jung-hwan is preaching mostly cherry-picked manipulative texts to enforce his own system.
He's trying to brainwash his followers to believe that all of the other churches in the entire world, including those of the same religion as him, they're all being led by Satan.
He told his followers that he had received the reincarnated spirit of King David and could hear God's secret divine message hidden from humanity for the past 2,000 years.
As the months went on and people were giving him all of their money, he starts introducing intense, repetitive psychological conditioning exercises, which he says will cleanse them of their ancestral sins.
His followers are being taught that their entire family lineage were corrupted by historical sins and that they themselves must atone for all of the sins of their bloodline.
The only way to save their souls and their ancestors' souls is to visit his church daily and tithe.
Under this, he made them stay for most of the day, dedicating their lives and life savings to the church.
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