Why’s this not popular? This should Be! It spreads awareness and it is interesting

In my experience, there are only three types of Koreans who will directly approach a foriegner: 1. Students (any age) wanting to practice English 2. Tipsy or drunk adults 3. Cult members wanting to "internationalize" their cult/religion. Koreans are generally reserved and won't talk to strangers unless the stranger approaches them. Then they will gladly help them, especially foriegners who are seen as guests in their country. I am an American who lived for 3 years in Daegu, South Korea.

My Korean ex was not into religion at all. Somehow this group got her to start bible studying which at first I thought was kinda cool because she had never done that before. She said they were super nice and seeing them was helping her a lot. Well she also had a trip to California coming up. The bible study members started begging her to not go on her trip. It would be like a 7 day trip so that was weird, but they probably didn’t want there to be a break in her “bible studies.” When she got off the bus one day, some random lady she had never met ran up to her and said she had a vision of a plane she was on crashing. It freaked my ex out at the time and she even questioned going to CA. We realized it had to be connected to the cult. She stopped seeing them and of course the plane ride to CA was fine.

I got approached by 2 male University students when I was staying at a hotel in Yeongdeungpo. It was back in 2018. They said they were doing a research with tourists. And they wanted to invite me to show me Korean culture. I was travelling solo. So I politely declined their invite despite them talking to me so long at Starbucks next to my hotel. They even showed me pictures of foreigners who were dressed in Korean costumes at their so called cultural event. The contents of the conversation was similar to what this girl said. Hahaha...

finding this video after watching the new Netflix doc series about Korean cults, definitely can see how easily u can be roped into the cults.

I travelled to Korea back in 2019 and got stopped in Hongdae on my way to a shop and started talking to these people for so long. Once they asked me to go back with them to dress in Hanbok, I immediately declined and said I had somewhere to be. Didn't take any notice in it until a couple minutes later when another couple approached me asking the same question "Do you know where Stylenanda is?" (ironically this was the shop I was going to hence why I fell for it the first time). I ignored them thinking "that's odd, I've been asked that twice.." but still brushed it off. Later that evening I was coming out of McDonalds and overheard the same conversation with another Korean couple and some tourists. It's only when I got back to my hotel I looked it up and came across all this information on the cults - not something people know about when travelling to Korea but definitely need to be cautious of.

I encountered the Shincheonji cult members here in Australia. They seem so friendly & welcoming which was so unusual as most Korean ppl tend to keep to themselves and aren't as friendly/warm/outgoing; so I should of took note of the overly inviting/welcoming attitude at first lol, but tbh I just wanted to make friends & met new people. This was all over 3 years ago. I still have mental PTSD/scarring from the experience lol. Turns out they are still operating/active today in 2023 as my friend got approached by them a few months ago.

The KZfaq algorithm brought me here after I watched the new Netflix documentary series about Korean cult leaders. Hopefully your video gets more views as more people watch that Netflix show!

That’s insanely underrated omg it was actually scary when you guys were separated and all the things Jackson talked about 😳

i was in korea in October, and i remember so many people warning me about these cults. Thankfully i was never approached by anyone. Loved the video, im so happy youtube recommended this lol

In 2017 I was approached by people like this so often in Sinchon and Hongdae that one day I decided to find out what cultural event they were talking about. But first I had them pay for my coffee and cake at a coffee shop where we sit down and I had them tell me about the event before I said I’d go with them. I messaged a friend what I was doing but didn’t worry too much 😅 the event you describe sounds exactly like the one I attended though mine seemed to have involved a lot more bowing. I remember my legs hurting like hell on the following day 😂 after the ceremony we ate the food while sitting at those small tables and talking about fortune and how well I’m doing and how well I and my family could be doing. When they started to ask me about my job, income and my parents work, I said I need to go to work and they let me go without any issue, just asking to stay in touch for setting up a new meeting to improve my fortune and well being through idk payment or praying via kakaotalk. I just blocked them after a few days and never saw them again :)

Your video should get more attention, since you have put so much work in it and has an important message! Great job!

I lived in Korea 🇰🇷 about a decade ago. One of my friends came in one day and said, “I think I just gave my blood to a cult.” He met some people on the street. He went to a meeting with them. And he let them TAKE HIS BLOOD. Honestly, I didn’t follow up on what happened, but I found it disturbing and semi-hilarious. Does anybody know what cult this might’ve been?

This video needs to blow up soon. Very interesting stuff. Glad it was randomly recommended to me

"It's just a culture thing", well there is cult in culture.

deym, you are brave haha. I'm a Christian and have always been worried when I visit SK. They are so creative and smart to recruit people, and once you are in, getting out will be very difficult (from people's story).

I had this kind of encounter twice when I went to Korea in 2018. The way they approached felt weird so I tried to search this culture thing up because I wanted to be careful especially because I was travelling alone but couldn’t find anything online. Glad these people are spreading more information about all this.

Be careful guys! Great work by the way.

Omg this is really high quality content

Thank you for thee video! I've been looking for the imformation about cults and this one helped a lot!

This is insane, ur channel is underrated… keep it up I’m 100% sure you’ll make it. Also I’d love to see more of this type of content in the future (maybe a peak inside 😳😳)

Here bec. of a Netflix docu A holy betrayal. Cults are indeed rampant in SK too, omg.

Sad to say that there are still some people who are susceptible to this kind of manipulation and persuasion. if you're depress, going thru something and need comfort yeah I would you say are vulnerable. But it's 2023, people should be smarter now...

Great content, keep it up!

Very informative. Maybe adding the names of the cult groups discussed in the description or title would help more people find this video?

I look like I dine with Satan, so no one has bothered with nicely inviting me while I was studying/visiting in Korea (but I got harassed and insulted by the freaks alright). It happened to me outside of Korea though, by a Korean person I knew from my university. On the other hand, my classmate from my school in Korea is one of those people who went to the "cultural event" with two guys who did chat her up and upon realising it's a cult meeting, she tried to leave but they locked the place and didn't let her until few hours later. Btw. I have a degree in Krn studies, did a lot of research on old religions in Korea, esp. Korean shamanism, wrote a thesis about it and that ritual you went through has absolutely no historical basis. The cults just take a lot of inspiration from all religions and then they create a chimera.

You are going to be huge in this year!

Do NOT put your camera on "auto focus!" The constant (annoying) in-out of focus is due to this. Set it on "manual" and focus on your subject.

i watched this whole video then went to subscribe… how do you not have a million subs !!

omg pls stay safe! ,, very interesting insight but still was so scared for u guys

How does this channel only have 427 subscribers!! I believe if you document similar topics your channel will really grow. Give us more inside scoops 🤣

That’s why I always wear my AirPods and sunglasses while I’m out in the public so they don’t stop me to talk to them.

such an interesting video! One time also one guy came up to me and started to ask me about my religion and stuff. He was really nice, but I think it was a good thing to decline 😅 who knows what can happen, right?

this video may only have 984 views now but I think it has the full potential to blow up soon! the video was really interesting to see, it's crazy because they seem like ordinary people but they are a part of a full blown cult! next time it would be soo cool to see inside one of those places if you can.

Wow this is honestly so scary- I would be so nervous the whole time..

This is a good production.. need more subs and likes 1000%

I got stopped in Gangnam few years ago, maybe around 2017-2018.. I met one girl and one boy who talked the same things these people said, and I also experienced the same things as Jakcson. I don’t know it was a cult back then and I followed them.. Lucky me, they only asked for donation and it happened I only had 5000 KRW in my pocket 😂 so I gave them that.. I literally don’t know it was cult because they were very niceee like they gave food, dress in hanbok, and walk me back to the station and I thought it was cultural things 😂 nice experience tho, but now after all the news about cult it’s scary to think I just follow strangers around 😩

I was approached by someone in Dongdaemun too back in 2018 (it was just one guy though not 2 people). Thankfully I was able to walk away after a few minutes and didn't have to actually experience any of it, but it was still so weird. He said the same thing about a "traditional Korean experience", so it was definitely one of those people. I honestly kinda forgot this ever happened, but watching this video reminded me and made me realize that I too had been approached by a cult while in Korea.

Wow this is insane dudes. Thanks

Damnnn!!! Tht was sickkk

Whoa that's scary wow thanks man for putting this video out here ❤️everyone around him knew what was happening but never tried to stop and it's so so scary thing to happen at least this won't happen in India ❤️

I was approached at the bookstore too by some people wanting to bible study. We met about three times afterwards. They were a bit odd but never did anything bad either.

When i was studying in korea (i lived in sinchon) i was approached by 2 girls (WITH UMBRELLA!) and they asked if i knew a good donkatsu restaurant. After i referred them to some spots, I immediately got bombarded with question like “do you like Jesus? You want to fix your relationship with Jesus?” You know whats crazy? I WORE HIJAB… thats so funny. Like i respect all religion but man why were you doing this to me🥲 I had a long long chat and tried to refuse their invitation nicely, i told them that i really appreciate them doing this for their religion as youngsters etc etc and they cut my sentences with “this is not about religion”. I was tired as heck so i just said bye

That must be so fking scary honestly glad nothing bad happened

Time for this to blow up in the algorithm

This is pretty common in Japan as well, I got approached countless times!

They are in NYC too, specially around the Korean towns or Asian streets.

Wow thanks, I just heard a story but never video. There are place that targeted student or languange learners. They in school and boarding house. They approaches them like caring people and ripe theit money and made the stay away from their abroad family. So they become dependent and hopeless

Hai, I just subscribed! Thanks for uploading this topic. I really wanna see it. Some other days I just heard the story not the reality. Ao happy you recorded it!

World mission Society And NHNE 💬😑

So what are their goals usually? To get you to join the cults and later make donation or something?

The only thing I hate in Korea is they really stick to the extent of harassing people and promoting religion

Great video, and thank you for raising awareness about these cults. They've gone international, and I've had a run in with Shincheonji in Seattle. There are testimonies of former members on Great Light Studios, both Shincheonji and the World Mission Society Church of God.

Happens in US. Similar technique. 30 years ago I was on a university campus in downtown area of major city. Just left the Newman center. It’s where they offer catholic mass, etc.. the sign said Bible study at noon. It was almost noon. Two people tried to get me to go to their Bible study. I pointed to the sign and said if I was going to go to Bible study… duh. There was a lot of activity after that. Students were alerted.

This brings back memories of when I was in high school in the mid 2000's, I would get approached by these Asian aunties at the mall asking if I wanted to go to a party for like some church group and there would be a lot of kids my age there. It sounded extremely sus and of course I never went lol. But I've always wondered what actually goes on there hahaha. I'm in Southern California where there is a large Asian population if anyone is wondering. I'm also Asian btw. I don't think they would approach teens who are not Asian.

This happened to me so often.. One time in Incheon I was outside a convenient store and two old ladies ran up to me. Complimenting me, the worker came out and scolded them and told them to F off. Another time in hongdae. My friends mom came to Korea so we were looking for hotels. We talked about it to someone who worked in the convenient store. He called someone he knew. His pastor. I kept telling my friend and her mom it wasn’t safe and it was a cult and we shouldn’t. So when the paster came in a large black car. We knew then and said no. He was so pushy and said he owned an Airbnb. We ran away. Another time in hongdae I got asked to do a normal survey. I did it and she gave me some snacks and I walked away. She wanted to talk more or she seemed upset but I ignored.. I just thanked her and said I did the survey and was busy. Another time in the subway station two people approached me. Complimenting me and telling me they worked for a clinic and wanted me to go visit. Sat beside me on the subway. Gave a business card not related to a clinic. Followed me when I got off and asked to eat dinner together. I refused and the whole walk home kept looking behind me. There’s been soo many more crazy situations but they will do and say anything to you

I was approached back in 2019 in Lotte Mall coming out of EMart. They were speaking to me for a good 10 minutes trying to take me to their traditional ceremony, but I just wanted to go pee haha! I was so nervous having heard about these things before, and it was my first time being approached after visiting Korea 6 times before.

Btw your face kinda familiar... then I realized you appeared on Hyori's Homestay season 1 right?

Ugh I came back from the post office and two older women approached me and asked if I spoke korean. I said I was studying it...BIG mistake. 😂 they were chatting me up in korean and asking me to come to their house to listen to them preach and wanted to know when I was free. They kept following me until I just booked it. That was fun to explain to my boss why I was late.

I lived in SK for 4 years. Travelled to A LOT of places in the cities and country side. Never been approached by a cult. Maybe I seem unfriendly.

lmao this has got to go viral

In Ktown they have two cults here in LA. One acts as if it's Buddhism but it's not. It's strange

I've actually been in a cult when I lived there and continued even after I left Korea but not for long. Got sucked in because I was so young and naive at the time. Nothing bad happened to me, actually I made good friends and there were other foreigners at that centre as well. At no point did I feel like I was in danger but the secretive nature of the higher ups always rubbed me the wrong way. It's funny to see this because until now,I've never commented on anything nor have I told people close to me that I was in a Korean religious cult.

You have to donate money if you join one and that money is used by organization to make donations to people who in need even to countries that's how the influence is established There is no real benefit but you get to meet people from different fields

Here’s my cult experience: I was in a museum and these two girls my age came up to me and started talking and showing me things they made and wanted to be friends. I’m not good with people so I was like sure. We met up for coffee ( I didn’t pay for them) and they told me they were studying psychology and wanted to try a drawing reading with me. I knew it was dangerous but like, I had nothing better to do. I did the drawing thing and the reading was actually really accurate. Their belief was about the energy you put out into the world, they said a pile of shit will attract flies but a flower attracts butterflies. If you put out negative energy you will have bad experience, but if you put out positive energy, good things will happen. They told me a way to bring positive was this ritual to honor your ancestors They asked for money to buy food, I came them 10,000 won ( like 9 USD) They then gave me a Hanbokand taught me the ceremony. They has a special room just for it. Everyone in the house were wearing Hanbok and preparing the food together. Then we did the ritual. It was late at night so they walked me to the train station. Gave me the food. And yeah

I got approached twice in one day back in 2019. I was alone in Hongdae. They said the same thing, they have an event and it's about Korean culture. I usually don't trust strangers no matter how nice they are, so on those meetings I just wanted to escape right away. I declined repeatedly no matter how much they were persuading me. Really interesting and bit scary.

Scary even more if you do not know the language.

Shincheonji, unification church, or JMS (Providence) always lurking around.

i usually never stop when ppl, especially young ppl in the day time come up to me when I'm in Korea. Back in 2018 when I was killing time before my flight home, I was shopping in Hongdae and a guy and girl came up asking directions to the One Piece cafe. tbh I only stopped to help them because I thought they were tourists too, they didn't have the typical "Korean" look, if that makes sense. Since I had a few hours, I offered to take them there, but they were so adamant that I don't lol They tried to get me to go with them for at least 20 minutes, just talking in the middle of the street. I offered to go to a coffee shop to talk coz it was hot af but they just kept trying to get me to go with them. Said the same stuff, like I would do some cultural Korean stuff, learn manners etc. Knew it was a cult when they started asking me to go to their 'traditional culture' thing, instead of me taking them to the cafe they first asked directions for. I've had a friend blindly go with ppl who approached her , she wanted to make Korean friends and was excited about it, only for her to end up paying like 50,000won after the whole thing, they pretty much forced her to pay "for respect" or some shit.

post clips of this on tiktok or reels

Yeah they catch people with 'cultural events' or normal looking 'bible studies' and after some time they start telling you about how God talked to their leader directly and made him the new messiah

Can you put subtitles for everything. It's a little hard to hear what the girl is saying in particular

not sure why your subscribers count is so low, im 160th!

me and my mom and sister were trying to find a taxi at 10 pm, a guy approached us, he said do you need a ride? we said no. and since we wearing hijab he said I have a lot of arab costumers look look, he showing me pictures of him with arab tourits or so, i said ah its okay, he said i can take you to hotel you see my car is parked there, come, there is no taxi now, I said no please. and i tried to ignore him but he kept talking so friendly other people looked at him suspiciously but never said or did anything. then we just walked to our hotel ._.

The video was amazing but one tip: the music in the background wasn't appropriate or even necessary. Cheers

I knew someone who fell in that trap. more people should know about this.

Forget about religion - instead read the Bible for yourself in the privacy of your home - never give money. John 3:36.

2:30 6 times?! oO in Ukraine they let me go in for personal lecture just in 10 minutes :-D but I knew where I'm going to. JUst wanted to check everything myself

I did the same, but I was alone.

If anyone watching this video recognizes this group by their described behavior write it in the comments!!

Ancestor worship

Cool :D

Its New Age (listen to Angela Ucci she is an Ex New Ager and she talks about this) it's a hamster wheel

They straight cursed you 😂

I apologize beforehand for the huge post, but I just wanted to share my experience regarding cult approaches. A few months ago and was approached by 2 korean girls that asked me if I wanted to hear the word of Jesus... I had time and thought it was just going to be the usual preaching and blessing yadda yadda yadda so I said sure, why not. After they read some bible verses and pretty much quizzed me to know if I was understanding what they were telling me, one of the girls told me I was ready to be reborn and get rid of my all of my sins through baptism and they had the exact same method as the people in the video, they want you to go with them at that exact moment and tell you they will give you food, and for the baptism you'll change your clothes into a robe, probably like a hanbok, and get baptized in a pool. Of course I wasn't buying any of that and they were super pushy, so I said I had a medical appointment at 1pm (it was around 12pm), and I told them I couldn't be late for it, so I couldn't go with them. They tried to convince me saying it would be easy and quick and it wouldn't take much of my time if I decided to go at that moment, then when they realized I really wasn't budging, they said let me get your number and call you after your appointment so we can take you to our church... I was way too nice back then and couldn't exactly walk away of that situation, but I also wasn't that dumb to give them my number, so I started saying the numbers and inverted the order on the last three... after typing all the numbers, this girl CALLED THE NUMBER AND LOOKED AT MY PHONE TO SEE IF IT WOULD RING💀💀. I swear I didn't breathe for a good 30 seconds and I said "Oh! That's my mom's number!". I look fairly young, so it's very believable that I'm still underage. They asked me if I was underage and I said "Yes, I'm 16" lol. Then they asked for my actual number, called it, saw it ring on my phone and sent me a text message to confirm again that it was my number. At that point all I wanted to do was escape from them, so I said "I'm sorry, I have to go! See you guys later haha" and I fled from that area as fast as I could. Don't worry, I blocked the number from my phone and I never heard from them ever again. They also gave me a card with their church's name and address so I could go there after my "medical appointment" and when I googled the location it genuinely looked like a warehouse, but their website was all targeted towards foreigners. Anyways, it was an L and I shouldn't have paid attention to them in the first place, good thing is that I didn't go with them but props to Jackson for having the balls to go, I would be terrified lol. It's a really good video to bring awareness to the cult groups that are everywhere, not just in Korea... My experience was in Brazil, but they had the same approach. Be careful everyone!

Which cult was it?

Hi SK people, if you’re not talking to me about nature, dogs, kdrama or kpop, please don’t talk to me. I already have my own goD 😅

Where is the film?? you didn't show anything about it at all. I hope to watch it instead of listening about the experience.

More importantly y’all both should of shared y’all location on the phone to be safe. 2 you should of not gone for their ritual in their cult because they probably using you as a sacrifice or doing some kind of summoning that something (unknown being like demon or monster) is following now…. I’m just saying….

What is that greasy cardboard they call pizza that they are eating at the beginning?

what if i join their cult and get them to give me visa then run off

Ngeri bgttt klu ketemu orang kyk gini

I'm curious what wouldve happened if Jay turned up while they were inviting him and asked if he can join too, since im guessing hes Korean but lived abroad? Super interesting! Thanks for showing us a glimpse.

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i hope you gave them a false name to write down though, you never know

My girl friend is in the wmscog a other koeran cult it took a while for me to find out and she got mad at me for looking in ok. Them

Okay but what is the point of all these religious cult activities? Like what benefit do these people get out of this? Do they make people pay for these rituals later on after luring them in?

Last year, the Church of Shincheonji held a graduation ceremony for more than 100,000‼️ I members in just one year. IT CAN BE ONLY GOD not man power AMEN 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

I'm sure these guys contributed to fing Oli London over!

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