CBS, a Christian Media Network
Inciting Kidnapping and Violence
Should the Leading Christian Media Network of Korea Continue with Falsified, Distorted, and Biased Reporting?
CBS, Holding Human Rights and Lives as Ransom for Monetary Profit
Starting March 16th, 2015, the self-claimed “leading Christian Media Network” of Korea, CBS, aired a documentary called, “People who have Fallen into Shincheonji.” However, this program was illegally filmed using hidden cameras without any consent of those who were filmed, with about 2,000 hours worth of footages of human rights violation. The program consisted of a biased reporting that vindicates illegal and coercive conversion sessions, and it aired slandering words of a few who are hostile to Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (Shincheonji), without any objective discussion.
This program was based only on increasing ratings, with a completely lost sense of journalistic ethics. On the other hand, the airing of this program proved itself to be motivated to introduce the so-called “cult counseling facility” to the public and raise sponsorship.
CBS had already been in a previous scandal for airing a certain pastor’s sermon in exchange of 8 million Korean Won in monthly payment, though the pastor was warned by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea (GAPCK) in regards to the pastor’s heretical nature.
Does money ultimately determine how one is heretical or not?
On top of this, the CCK is using CBS’s falsifying reporting as a shield to hide the CCK’s own lies, though CBS’s reporting confused the people of Korea with its lies.
However, CBS’s false reporting has been purposely edited to slander Shincheonji in a biased way, and it publicly exposed the existence of coercive conversion sessions to the world that were only done privately.
Such airing is a gross violation of human rights, going against the Korean constitution and regulations that guarantee the citizens’ religious freedom, and it is also against journalistic integrity.
It is also absurd to publicly talk down on a specific denomination when the Republic of Korea does not have a national religion, just from the CCK’s arbitrary judgment to determine Shincheonji as heretical.
Such an act of condoning human rights violation should be investigated by the relevant government agencies!!
This is because the freedom of religion is guaranteed under the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, Article 20 Clause 1.
