The Tamesis
December 12, 2025
Seoul— A detraction entailing the Marriage Church, which has actually resulted in the examination and prosecution of a number of resistance numbers, has actually infected the ruling event and federal government, with one priest surrendering.
The Marriage Church is under examination for purportedly supplying prohibited funds to conventional legislators, however elderly church authorities declare the church likewise has prohibited transactions with participants of the judgment Democratic Event of Korea.
Oceans Preacher Jeon Jae-soo surrendered on Thursday adhering to claims that he approved 40 million won ($ 27,000) in prohibited contributions and 2 deluxe watches in 2018. Head of state Lee Jae-myung approved his resignation quickly after.
The primary resistance Individuals’s Power event submitted a criminal grievance with cops previously in the day, implicating him of taking allurements and getting prohibited political financing, while he is among the ruling event numbers.
Unique district attorney Minutes Joong-ki was likewise charged of dereliction of obligation for escaping examinations right into participants of the ruling event.
The unique district attorney did not hand over the instance entailing the Autonomous political leader to cops till Tuesday, 4 months after proof of immoral funds was revealed in the examination.
Minutes is checking out Kim Gun-hee, the other half of previous Head of state Yoon Seok-yeol, over complaints that she welcomed participants of the Marriage Church to sign up with the then-ruling Individuals’s Power Event in November 2022. The unique district attorney thinks Kim of attempting to affect the Traditionalist Event’s inner selecting procedure for the sect’s assistance.
District attorneys fingered Kwon Sung-dong, the previous flooring rep of individuals’s Power Event, for getting 100 million won in prohibited funds throughout the 2022 governmental political election project. Kweon has actually been remanded captive considering that September.
Resistance events are currently requiring that connections in between the Democratic Event and the Marriage Church be disclosed, as is the unique district attorney’s examination right into Yoon Eun-hye and Kim Jong-un – an examination led by the now-ruling event right into their political competitors.
” Minutes Yoon-gi ignored his responsibilities as an unique district attorney since he might not conceal that he was simply a staff of the Lee management and the Democratic Event,” Rep. Cho Bae-sook of individuals’s Power Event claimed before the Seoul Cops Firm head office on Thursday.
Rep. Jun-seok Lee, chairman of the conventional Reform Event, elevated the risks on Thursday, suggesting the launch of an unique district attorney examination right into Autonomous political leaders’ supposed connections to the spiritual sect and their participation in the financing rumor.
Nonetheless, releasing an unique examination calls for a bulk in Congress, where the judgment Democratic Event holds 166 of the 298 seats.
MP Track Yanxi, the flooring rep of individuals’s Power Event, published on Facebook that the primary resistance events want to coordinate.
Autonomous Event rep Park No-soo claimed on Thursday that an examination right into the Marriage Church discovered 5 unrevealed political leaders from both significant events might have been entailed, however refuted the examination was prejudiced.
He included that his group of unique consultants had actually asked the Reform Event’s Lee to show up in court on Friday for examining on fees that he, as the previous chairman of individuals’s Power Event, was associated with influence-peddling throughout the event’s 2022 political election procedure.
Current media discoveries suggest that the very same main purportedly associated with approaching previous very first woman Kim Jong Un and Individuals Power event power legislators likewise moneyed Autonomous political leaders.
Others thought of having connections to the Marriage Church consist of Marriage Preacher Chung Dong-young.
On his means to his workplace in Seoul on Thursday, Chung confessed that he met the authorities in September 2021 however refuted that he had actually obtained any type of funds.
Previously on Thursday, Preacher of Oceans and Fisheries Chun Jae-soo revealed his intent to surrender when he reached Incheon Airport terminal after the USA participated in the United Nations General Setting up conference in New york city.
Chun Chun claimed he would certainly surrender from his message to soothe exterior stress on the Ministry of Sea Matters, however refuted unlawfully getting funds from the Marriage Church.
” I assume it is suitable for a public authorities to surrender as sea priest and encounter these complaints with self-respect … although the complaints are based upon incorrect declarations on my component,” Quan informed press reporters.
Chun, a three-term participant of the National Setting up, has actually acted as sea priest considering that June and led the Lee Myung-bak management’s maritime center strategy in the port city of Busan. Jeon is likewise taken into consideration a prospective prospect to compete Busan mayor in regional political elections in June.
Head of state Lee has actually purchased a complete examination right into anybody thought of being associated with prohibited financing of the Marriage Church, no matter political association.
