The litigation between Lee Manhee and Kim Namhee - News & Joy
News & Joy Reporter Choi Seung-hyun, 2020.02.18
Kim Nam-hee (former IWPG CEO), who has been called the "Powerful," "Second-in-command" and "Mother," appeared on YouTube, revealing the details on how she got to marry Shincheonji's president Lee Man-hee and on their litigation over some real estates .
This is the first disclosure of a top official since Shin Hyun-wook (former director of IWPG) quit in 2006 and became an heresy and pseudo-religions expert after working in Shincheonji for more than 20 years. On February the 16th, Kim Nam-hee said in an interview on the YouTube channel "JonJonTV": "Lee Man-hee is neither the savior nor God, he is just a human being.
Shincheonji, that believes in Lee Man-hee as a savior, should disappear from this earth".
In an 80 minutes interview, Kim Nam-hee unravelled the story of how she married Lee Man-hee and the following events in detail.
She also revealed a large number of proofs, including a marriage pledge written by Lee Man-hee in his own hand, a love letter and a recording of key officials of Shincheonji who supported her as a "samo*" [*Samo is the partner of an eminent person] Lee Man-hee's wife.
Kim Nam-hee said she gained trust from Lee Man-hee when she leaded the Apgujeong World Mission Center, which is considered one of the key organizations of Sincheonji.
When Mrs. Kim, who belonged to the Gangnam upper class, made achievements by mobilizing her private fortune to run the missionary center, she met Lee Man-hee several times, and before long Lee Man-hee proposed to her.
Kim said, "Lee Man-hee said he was a bachelor, he said he had never married and never registered any marriage. Even at the parade, the woman that is called 'samo' (Yoo Chun-soon) sitting next to him and I thought they were married, but then he said, "she is a maid that assists me.''
Mrs. Kim said she couldn't refuse when Lee Man-hee proposed to her, even though she had two children with her husband at the time.
She also mentioned that Lee Man-hee enticed her by saying: "There is a partner God sends from heaven, and that is you."
When Mrs. Kim said that God can not be a household destroyer, Lee Man-hee answered: "That was a fence that protected you (until the time we met), but now He is making us to become one" and he induced her to divorce her spouse.
She also claimed that after the marriage, Lee Man-hee insisted that he wanted a son with her and that he wanted him to be named Cheonjong, which means "the seed of heaven."
When they argued, Lee Man-hee would get upset and say, "Where did you throw Chun-jong?". Kim Nam-hee said the reason behind their separation was money.
She said: "Lee Man-hee is a swindler who only knows money.
He was just pursuing my money".
Kim said her money went into building large-scale facilities for Shincheonji, including Cheongpyeong Training Institute and Goseong Training Institute, as well as into the purchase of real estates like Cheongdo shelter and the site of Lee Man-hee's family shrine.
She also said that when Lee Man-hee was hospitalized at Yeongdong Severance Hospital and Chosun University Hospital with symptoms of stenosis, she covered all the expenses for the nursing and the surgery.
Kim said: "Having to provide all that money was hard, I have gone through a lot of hardships. During the construction of the buildings, Lee Man-hee paid less than a penny, but when everything was finished, he paid a few pennies and took half of it (ownership) to Sincheonji".
And she added that, she ended up spending 400 billion won but still, Lee Man-hee wrote her a letter asking her to provide 100 billion won.
Despite being divested of her properties, it was rumored that Lee Man-hee had chosen Kim Nam-hee as his successor, but Kim Nam-hee claimed that this was a slander to expell her from Shincheonji: "I asked him to clarify everything and put an end to these slanderous rumors about his own wife, but he just said, "I'll solve this," and "God knows everything", and everyday he just cowardly soothed me this way and moved on, and I thought it was strange.
Now that I think about it, he had a scheme. He was planning to bury me" she claimed. In the interview, Kim also disclosed the phone conversation with Lee Sang-myeon, president of the "Cheonji Ilbo," an organization related to Schincheonji.
Kim told Lee Sang-myun: "This (the rumor of Shincheonji's succession) is clearly defamation. Please write (an article) saying that I will file a complaint.
This CEO said "We talk about it every time (at the General Assembly of Shincheonji), but the information keep going out because there's someone (who's leaking the information)."
Currently, Lee Man-hee and Kim Nam-hee are in litigation over some real estates, including Cheongpyeong and Goseong.
Kim Nam-hee noted that her assets were put up for court auction, and that Lee Man-hee appointed the country's leading law firm to win the suit.
Kim Nam-hee said: "I am struggling to protect the small part of my properties that haven't been squandered yet.
It is absolutely not for the purpose of taking anything away from Sincheonji or increasing my wealth".
Meanwhile, Shincheonji blinded the video of Kim Nam-hee's interview less than 12 hours after it was uploaded on JonJonTV with a report of copyright infringement.
Currently, only 13 minutes of a preliminary call prior to the interview that was made public can be seen.
In response to Kim Nam-hee's sudden revelations, heresy experts said that we should consider the genuinity of her intents, and that Shincheonji will be certainly shaken.
Shin Hyun-wook said, "First, I think we should be glad that she came out.
Although it is possible that Mrs. Kim may move in the direction of making an imitation of Shincheonji or creating her own faction, we can not predict it".
Mr. Shin added: "Shincheonji is now on the alert. This is conducting to an internal crackdown. Sincheonji will naturally cover it first, but then it will become obvious to everyone.
Because it seems like it is spreading from mouth to mouth.
It can't be silenced.
I think this may be the biggest crisis since I came out.
This revelations could be an opportunity for many to open their eyes and escape.
If 4,000 to 5,000 people have left by the end of this year, I think more than 10,000 people could come out this time".
Some say we should be careful when considering Kim's revelations.
Cho Mee-eum, CEO of Right Media, in a telephone interview with News & Joy on the 17th, said: "Although what Kim Nam-hee revealed this time is true, it is what most heretsy experts already knew, Kim should first af all apologize properly to the victims who fell into Shincheonji because of her and make amend for her mistakes.
If she doesn't, we should be driven to suspect that her purpose is to gain some point in the lawsuit against Lee Man-hee".
Original article (Korean) https://www.newsnjoy.or.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=300033
Disclaimer! I am neither a native Korean speaker nor a professional translator and all the English subtitles and translations are by no means official. They are just part of my personal research on SCJ that I want to share with you. I will add this disclaimer to the previous posts too.
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