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THE FOLLOWING EPISODE CONTAINS
DESCRIPTIONS OF CHILD ABUSE
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WHICH MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME VIEWERS
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[producer] Please introduce yourself.
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[speaking Korean]
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[interpreter] I am the heartless woman
who caused the uproar
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at the Baby Garden incident
that occurred in 1996.
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SUN YEONG-RE
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FORMER MEMBER OF THE BABY GARDEN
MOTHER OF CHOI NAK-GWI
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I'm Nak-gwi's mother, Sun Yeong-re.
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[traditional percussion]
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[chanting]
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[bells jangling]
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I'm deranged.
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I'm mentally ill. Completely insane.
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[woman shouts]
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[woman shouts]
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Because Nak-gwi was very light-skinned,
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everybody said
that he was adorable and beautiful.
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They all loved him.
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[man 1] When I was investigating
this incident,
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one of the biggest questions I had was
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"Who on earth was Nak-gwi's mother?"
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[sighs]
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Well...
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I can't even call myself a mother.
I can't use that word.
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I'm a bad and horrible human being.
I'm evil.
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I wish somebody
would just stone me to death.
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I'm a horrible person.
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I wish I was dead.
I don't deserve to live.
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- [producer] Stop it, please.
- [sobbing]
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I'm such a horrible person.
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I just can't forgive myself.
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After a period of silence,
the religious cult has returned.
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The Baby Garden's
four cult leaders were arrested
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for stealing money from their followers,
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and murdering three of their members
for disobeying their leader.
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KIM KI-SOON
FOUNDER OF THE BABY GARDEN
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[newscaster] The leader Kim Ki-soon
created the cult.
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She deceived her followers
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by promising them eternal life
and heaven on earth.
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Our sources say that she deified herself
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and brutally assaulted
followers who didn't obey her.
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A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY, CHOI NAK-GWI
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STARVED FOR ONE WEEK
AND BEATEN UP IN A PIGPEN
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CHANGED HIS NAME FROM NAK-WON TO NAK-GWI
AS "HE WAS POSSESSED BY AN EVIL SPIRIT"
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TIED UP IN A PIGPEN AND FED HUMAN WASTE
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[newscaster] Nak-gwi, the son of the cult
member Choi Myeong-ho, was five years old
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when he was beaten to death
in a pigsty in 1987.
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[Yeong-re sobbing]
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[sighs]
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I can't change anything
about what happened.
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I'm so ashamed to even be alive.
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So ashamed.
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[somber music]
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[choral church music]
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IN THE NAME OF GOD: A HOLY BETRAYAL
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THE BABY GARDEN, ON THE WAY TO THE HEAVEN
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[ominous music]
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ICHEON
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ARIRANG WORLD
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SYNNARA
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[man] Come out when you're done.
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Jeong Hye-sun!
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[group talking]
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Come on, stop, wait a minute.
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You need to do it fast and then come out.
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[blows landing]
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I don't want to watch it.
I... I didn't know it was this bad.
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It's horrible.
I was just following orders.
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I... I didn't know
what was going to happen next.
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It's so different to watch it this way.
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It breaks my heart.
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CHOI NAK-GWI
5 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT
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My name is Sun Bok-re.
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FORMER MEMBER OF THE BABY GARDEN,
AUNT OF CHOI NAK-GWI
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I am Nak-gwi's aunt.
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I participated in the murder
of an innocent boy.
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He was my little nephew Nak-gwi.
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1987
NAK-GWI'S DEATH
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It was summer.
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Back then, I was working at a factory.
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My afternoon shift was ending.
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I got a call.
Kim Ki-soon wanted to see me.
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She called me to her chambers
and I sat by her feet.
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She said that
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Nak-gwi had pooped
and smeared it all over the walls.
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That he was possessed.
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She said we needed to discipline him,
but his mother was at work
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and his father was gone,
so then I had to discipline him.
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She said Nak-gwi was in the pigpen.
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[pigs grunting]
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So I went there.
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When I got there,
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they had taken
all of my nephew's clothes off
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and tied him up.
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He was left in the pigpen
with his hands tied behind his back.
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I couldn't leave because people...
had followed me there
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to see if I would do as Kim Ki-soon said.
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So I had no choice
but to follow her orders.
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FORMER MEMBER
TOOK PART IN THE BEATING OF CHOI NAK-GWI
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I went to beat him up too.
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I was brushing my teeth after lunch
and people were looking for me outside.
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They said that Nak-gwi
had been possessed by Satan.
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Agaya said we had to exorcise him.
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So I followed them.
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They said he should eat feces,
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so I took some with my hands
and put it in his mouth.
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Then Nak-gwi
pushed it out with his tongue.
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He pushed it out twice.
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[woman 2] Then she said each one of us
should take a stick, line up and hit him.
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- [blow lands]
- [pig squealing]
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[Bok-re] I think there must have been
some nails attached
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to the stick I used to hit him,
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because he was bleeding.
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When I saw the blood,
I just tossed the stick aside and left.
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Any other child
would have cried out for his aunt.
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They should have done something,
they should have stopped it.
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[woman 2] I hit him a few times.
Everybody took turns beating him.
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We said "Leave his body, evil spirit.
How dare you come here, Satan?"
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We kept beating him up.
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- [blows landing]
- [pig squealing]
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SIX DAYS BEFORE NAK-GWI'S DEATH
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AUGUST 8, 1987
THE BABY GARDEN, ICHEON
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[mournful music]
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FORMER MEMBER
WITNESS OF CHOI NAK-GWI INCIDENT
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I remember well that it was summer break.
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I don't know exactly what I did wrong,
but I was told I was no better than a pig.
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I lived in that pigpen the entire summer.
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Nak-gwi was already there
when I got there.
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NAK-WON: NAK-GWI'S ORIGINAL NAME
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Tied up.
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What really sickened me,
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no food was given to him all day.
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Not even water.
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There was... this pipe that pigs drink from.
Water only came out if you pressed it.
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So I gathered water in my hands
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to help Nak-gwi drink some.
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[woman] He wasn't there for more
than ten days, but it was at least a week.
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One night he went to the kitchens,
he was hungry.
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He went there and said,
"Ma'am, I'm hungry."
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[Yeong-re] It's pretty far away,
even for a grown man.
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PIGPEN, DINING ROOM
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He was probably hoping
there'd be some food left,
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so he walked all the way there,
because he must have been very hungry.
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The kitchen lady went straight
to Kim Ki-soon, saying "Agaya, Agaya!"
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"I think Nak-gwi
is really possessed by a spirit."
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"He hasn't had anything to eat,
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but he still has the energy
to come all the way here."
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So they immediately
took him back and tied him up.
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They didn't even let him drink water.
They just tied him back up.
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When I learned that, I was...
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After two days,
Kim Ki-soon beat him up again,
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even though he was too weak... to cry.
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I saw her hit him.
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I saw it right in front of my eyes.
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[pigs squealing]
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She was hitting him,
but he couldn't even scream.
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He was hit so many times.
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He should have been
screaming in pain, in tears,
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but he just couldn't.
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[blow lands]
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Instead, he had his eyes wide open.
I remember that.
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But he wasn't really looking at her.
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He was just a baby.
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He was an innocent child.
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It looked like he didn't even know
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why he was there.
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After that, Nak-gwi left us,
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and that was it.
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SUN BOK-RE, AUNT OF CHOI NAK-GWI
TOOK PART IN THE BEATING OF CHOI NAK-GWI
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I knew I would remember that day.
It was pouring rain.
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I saw my nephew's shoe
outside the bathroom.
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AUGUST 14, 1987
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When I saw that shoe, I couldn't believe
that my nephew had died.
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[Yeong-re] When all that happened,
I was at the market.
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I found out about the incident
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the day after he died in the pigpen.
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Kim Ki-soon asked me to come see her.
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AUGUST 15, 1987
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She said "Nak-gwi is gone. He's dead."
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"When he died,
his face was twisted like a cat's."
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She said, "I need somebody to be
a scapegoat to teach people a lesson."
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"And there are other parents
that are very faithful."
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"Since your family joined last,
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and don't have enough faith,
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it would've been hard for you to stay here
without sacrificing Nak-gwi."
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"But now, you will receive
the blessing of the heavens
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because of Nak-gwi's sacrifice."
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"You should cooperate in this matter."
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"Just do as I say."
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1987
NAK-GWI'S DEATH
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1978
THE RISE OF KIM KI-SOON
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THE DANCE OF HEAVEN,
SPINNING NAKED
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[newscaster] Ms. Kim Ki-soon was one
of Pastor Lee's best students.
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Lee sparked controversy
by dancing naked with his followers
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at a worship ceremony in the late '70s.
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NAKED WORSHIP
PASTOR LEE KYO-BU
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Ms. Kim's worship ceremonies,
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where she sings popular songs
while wearing thin, see-through pajamas,
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seem to be influenced by Pastor Lee.
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[man] I knew Lee Kyo-bu very well
when he worked as a pastor
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in Iri Jeollabuk-do during the '70s.
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YANG BONG-SIK, REPORTER AT AMENNEWS.COM
REPORTED ON THE BABY GARDEN INCIDENT
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He taught a life of integrity,
sacrifice, and morality.
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I believe Lee Kyo-bu
had about one thousand followers.
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If Kim Ki-soon is building
the new celestial kingdom,
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then I will go there to be with her.
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How should I put this?
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LEE KYO-BU
SPIRITUAL TEACHER OF KIM KI-SOON
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Kim Ki-soon was one of the followers
who used to come to my assemblies.
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She was one of the church members.
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She said, "I respect you
just as much as Jesus."
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She said she would follow me.
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Even other people
thought that she was like that.
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[all calling out]
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She was orphaned at an early age.
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She was poor. She wanted to study hard,
in order to achieve glory and honor.
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After she married the son of a pastor
and gave birth to a son,
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she could no longer fulfill her dream.
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KIM KI-SOON
FOUNDER OF THE BABY GARDEN
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I think she had
a lot of regrets because of that.
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And then, suddenly, incredibly,
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people started following Kim Ki-soon
instead of Lee Kyo-bu.
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I wasn't originally
one of Kim Ki-soon's followers,
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and Lee Kyo-bu
was somebody who lived a pure life.
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In some ways, he actually
set a good example for other people.
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I was one of Mr. Lee's followers because
I loved listening to his teachings.
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FORMER MEMBER
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CULT PASTOR ARRESTED
LOCKED UP AND BEAT EIGHT PEOPLE
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Back then, I ended up in jail
for two years and six months.
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After that incident,
Pastor Lee went to prison.
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And while he was gone, Kim Ki-soon
appeared and took over the preaching.
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A lot of people thought that the spirit
of Mr. Lee had moved on to her.
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Shortly after, Kim Ki-soon realized,
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if she used my name,
she could take advantage of that.
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Those people would follow her, even
to a pit of fire, to their certain death.
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It wasn't very hard for Kim Ki-soon
to win over Lee Kyo-bu's community.
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She said she had gone
to visit Lee Kyo-bu in prison,
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and that he asked her to personally
take care of his followers.
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[wistful ambient music]
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When she came back from prison, she told
us about the conversation with Lee Kyo-bu.
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KIM SEONG-KEUN
FORMER MEMBER
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She told us that
Mr. Lee himself had asked her
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to take care of us,
lead us and keep us united.
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She said that Kyo-bu was like a matchmaker
who matched her with the community.
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She said, "He's like John the Baptist
of the old days."
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"But I'm here now, so you must follow me."
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[Bong-sik] That was the beginning
of Kim Ki-soon's rise to power.
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She became the leader
while Lee Kyo-bu was away.
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She told us to call her
by the name "Agaya."
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[choral church music]
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[Yeong-re] She said "I'm Agaya,
a three-year-old baby."
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She couldn't go to Heaven
unless she was a child.
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[woman] When we sang songs,
we had to look at her.
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While we sang hymns too,
we looked at Agaya.
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[woman singing in Korean]
♪ O, great and amazing peace ♪
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♪ It is a gift from Agaya ♪
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It was first called The Garden of Eden,
but then she changed it to Baby Garden.
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BABY GARDEN COLLECTIVE FARM
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1978
THE RISE OF KIM KI-SOON
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1982
THE BEGINNING OF THE BABY GARDEN
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THE BABY GARDEN, ICHEON, GYEONGGI-DO
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[calm, romantic music]
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She said, "I will create heaven on earth."
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LEE SOON-BOK
FORMER MEMBER OF THE BABY GARDEN
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"We're all one family.
We're all brothers and sisters."
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And we believed her.
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At first we lived in our own homes,
but then we lived communally.
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She tricked people.
She said the apocalypse was coming
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and only her followers
will enter the millennial kingdom,
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so basically, the only way you could
save you soul was in Baby Garden.
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I remember she said, "Only the chosen few
may enter the kingdom."
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And that's how about 300 or 400 people
decided to live communally.
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[woman singing in Korean]
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[gentle piano music]
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You must all realize
that this is actually love.
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People all around us say that it's love,
and they're not wrong.
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It is love. This is proof of that.
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In her mind, Kim Ki-soon
had created a doctrine back then.
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HOUSE OF LOVE
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It was simply called "Love."
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In order to go to this... kingdom,
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where you can live forever,
all you had to do was love.
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[Ki-soon] Now, I will open
the door of love.
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She emphasized love and said God is love.
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When she said those kinds of things,
people totally believed it.
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When I heard her, I really thought
it was heaven on earth.
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I lived there thinking it was heaven.
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FORMER MEMBER OF THE BABY GARDEN
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I truly believed that my soul
would live for eternity if I stayed there.
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THEY ALWAYS SAID I'LL BE ABLE
TO LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER
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WITH THE PEOPLE I LOVE WHEN THE WORLD ENDS
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SO I STARTED FALLING INTO IT MORE
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KIM KI-SOON TOLD US
THAT HIGHLY EDUCATED PEOPLE
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LIKE PROFESSORS AND DOCTORS
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WOULD KNEEL BEFORE US
AND SERVE US LIKE WE'RE KINGS
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[in Korean] ♪ The door of love
Has opened ♪
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♪ It has opened ♪
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[man joins in] ♪ Chase ♪
300
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♪ Love ♪
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[shouting]
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We need to love!
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We all must love!
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My sisters and brothers
who are wearing these ceremonial robes.
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My brothers, who have received
the baby's blood!
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- That's me.
- Love is not missing from anyone!
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Agaya, Agaya, let us love.
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She was my God and my Ruler, my Jesus.
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I thought she was
the Second Coming of Christ.
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OUR AGAYA WHO ART IN HEAVEN,
HALLOWED BE THY NAME
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THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
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[man] To Agaya, the Ruler of Love.
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We offer you glory and praise.
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Ruler of Love.
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We dedicate our laughter,
our singing and dancing to you.
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[man] That's just how people work.
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When you respect someone like they're God,
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everything they do
seems beautiful and good.
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We all thought that she really was God,
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so we couldn't find
anything wrong about her.
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[chuckles]
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That's why I danced and danced so much.
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[producer] With Kim Ki-soon?
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Yes, I think I was the one who danced
with her the most back in those days.
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[gentle piano music playing]
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[man] We will become
your eternal source of joy.
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Oh, Agaya, you are so beautiful.
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[choir singing]
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Kim Ki-soon told followers to go out
into the world and make money.
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In order to build the millennial kingdom,
she needed cash.
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[Sun-bok] We were very enthusiastic.
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Back then, we didn't have much.
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So the people who had more sold their
belongings and shared with all of us.
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[man] Literally everybody
who went to live there
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gave her their money when they joined.
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Back in 1980,
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I took three million won
and gave it to her.
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The price of the land
was around 18 million won,
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plus the 40 bags of rice.
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I gave nearly 20 million won.
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I just wanted to give her
everything that I had.
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We didn't have money.
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Not only us, but also
my husband's family didn't have much.
344
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So the option they offered us,
since we had no money,
345
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was to work for the community.
346
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So we got on with it.
We got up very early every morning,
347
00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:22,632
and we started selling fish cakes
and gimbap lunches.
348
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We went to work on a daily basis,
even if it was pouring rain.
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We never missed a single day of work.
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We really tried our best. I don't think
I could have worked any harder than that.
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FORMER MEMBER OF THE BABY GARDEN
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There were about 300 people
in the community.
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We started out by learning
how to fix basins.
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Then I woke up very early in the morning
to sell gimbap and tempura rice cakes.
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Honestly, I barely slept.
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[chanting]
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Sticky rice cakes!
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Buckwheat jelly!
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[laughs] I kept chanting that, even
though it was completely quiet outside,
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and then someone would yell back,
"Hey, sticky rice cakes!"
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And I would race up to their apartment
and make a sale.
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Sticky rice cakes!
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Buckwheat jelly!
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Sticky rice cakes!
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ESTABLISHING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM
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[man] With everybody working,
she made a lot of money.
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DAEWOL-MYEON, ICHEON-GUN, GYEONGGI-DO
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And with that, she was able
to buy more and more land.
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On December 19th, 1982, she bought
some land in Icheon for the first time.
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[Seong-Keun] She went there, took
a look at the empty fields and mountains.
371
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She wanted a place to build houses on,
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so she bought hundreds of thousands
of square feet.
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When Baby Garden was established, we took
part in construction with our own hands.
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00:24:13,743 --> 00:24:16,037
The followers built everything themselves.
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[man] Every single building and house
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was constructed by the labor
of both men and women
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00:24:22,961 --> 00:24:25,213
who built everything
with their bare hands.
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The followers did all of it.
We didn't hire anybody.
379
00:24:29,593 --> 00:24:32,262
"We don't pursue pleasures."
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"We will go to the eternal kingdom.
Our very own heaven on earth."
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[thunder crashing]
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Baby Garden? I was living
in the Devil's Garden instead.
383
00:24:53,742 --> 00:24:56,661
My life ended up
being the complete opposite
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of what I expected
when I first joined the congregation.
385
00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:04,920
[newscaster] For most people,
the stories of the victims
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of the religious cult Baby Garden
are beyond belief and imagination.
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AN INHUMANE KINGDOM
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A BIZARRE GROUP
WITH BLIND FAITH LIVING ON A FARM
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Forced to perform heavy labor from dawn,
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00:25:12,594 --> 00:25:15,072
any cult member could be killed
if they disobeyed their leader.
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00:25:15,096 --> 00:25:16,640
Their lives were literally hell.
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00:25:16,723 --> 00:25:18,123
THE BABY GARDEN, THE GARDEN OF EVIL
393
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Baby Garden wasn't one
of the regular cults that one reads about.
394
00:25:23,438 --> 00:25:25,518
KANG MIN-KOO, FORMER PROSECUTOR
IN CHARGE OF THE CASE
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They brainwashed ordinary people,
396
00:25:29,402 --> 00:25:32,155
and put them to work
almost like slaves or livestock.
397
00:25:32,239 --> 00:25:34,032
[intense music]
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00:25:42,499 --> 00:25:46,294
THREE THINGS TO QUIT
IN ORDER TO ENTER THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM
399
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[Bok-re] Compassion.
Material goods. Sexual desire.
400
00:25:50,006 --> 00:25:54,177
We had to give up those things
to live forever in heaven.
401
00:25:55,428 --> 00:25:59,224
TIES TO COMPASSION:
AN OBSESSION WITH YOUR FAMILY
402
00:26:00,016 --> 00:26:02,227
At that time, honestly,
I would have done anything,
403
00:26:02,310 --> 00:26:05,397
even kill my parents,
if Kim Ki-soon had ordered me to do so.
404
00:26:06,022 --> 00:26:07,941
We had to let go of compassion.
405
00:26:08,024 --> 00:26:10,235
Regardless of whether
it was your own child,
406
00:26:11,278 --> 00:26:12,654
husband or mother.
407
00:26:12,737 --> 00:26:16,199
Compassion made us weak, which is why
we had to get rid of it completely.
408
00:26:16,283 --> 00:26:18,285
You couldn't even call someone "honey."
409
00:26:19,661 --> 00:26:22,122
You couldn't think
of your own children as yours.
410
00:26:22,205 --> 00:26:25,166
You had to think of them as other members
of the Baby Garden.
411
00:26:25,250 --> 00:26:27,919
Back then, the kids
had to call their mothers "ma'am."
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00:26:28,003 --> 00:26:29,588
That's what they made them do.
413
00:26:30,255 --> 00:26:33,925
SEVERING THREE TIES INCLUDING FAMILY TIES
YOUR FATHER BECOMES A RANDOM MAN
414
00:26:34,009 --> 00:26:35,552
She wanted to put the mothers to work,
415
00:26:35,635 --> 00:26:38,096
but the children cried
and clung to their skirts,
416
00:26:38,179 --> 00:26:40,348
saying, "Mommy, I want this, I want that."
417
00:26:40,432 --> 00:26:42,642
Kim Ki-soon couldn't stand
the sight of that.
418
00:26:44,936 --> 00:26:47,397
I HAD NO REASON
TO CALL MY FATHER AND BROTHER
419
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,567
BUT I WAS TOLD TO CALL THEM "SIR,"
AND MY MOTHER "MA'AM"
420
00:26:51,484 --> 00:26:55,989
I MISSED MY PARENTS SO MUCH,
BUT I HAD TO CUT MY TIES WITH THEM
421
00:26:56,072 --> 00:26:59,868
I HAD TO LIVE
WITH ONLY KIM KI-SOON ALONE IN MY HEART
422
00:27:01,453 --> 00:27:03,079
We had to live separately,
423
00:27:03,163 --> 00:27:05,498
so all women slept among other women.
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00:27:05,582 --> 00:27:08,877
Men would sleep among men only.
We never slept as families.
425
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,545
MEN'S ROOM, KIM KI-SOON, WOMEN'S ROOM
426
00:27:10,629 --> 00:27:12,881
I had to start working
as soon as I woke up.
427
00:27:12,964 --> 00:27:15,091
Thinking back on it now, we were insane.
428
00:27:15,175 --> 00:27:17,844
I must have been crazy,
I don't know what I was doing there.
429
00:27:19,262 --> 00:27:23,224
At that place, only special people
were allowed to go to the hospital.
430
00:27:23,308 --> 00:27:25,101
The rest of us took care of ourselves.
431
00:27:25,185 --> 00:27:30,190
You had to have a severe illness
to go to the hospital.
432
00:27:30,690 --> 00:27:34,611
When our arms hurt from work,
she told us to use moxibustion.
433
00:27:36,071 --> 00:27:42,118
I would put moxibustion all over me,
shoulders, elbows, and stomach,
434
00:27:42,619 --> 00:27:44,245
as a healing remedy.
435
00:27:50,919 --> 00:27:52,462
This is where they did it.
436
00:27:52,545 --> 00:27:54,756
I have a big ugly scar from it.
437
00:27:55,256 --> 00:27:58,218
Life became so hard because of this.
438
00:28:00,345 --> 00:28:01,971
[man] When you get moxibustion,
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00:28:02,055 --> 00:28:04,099
the area, well, it starts oozing.
440
00:28:04,182 --> 00:28:07,686
So I was itching while I was working,
and I couldn't stand it.
441
00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:09,938
There were a lot of aftereffects.
442
00:28:10,021 --> 00:28:12,357
[woman] I felt like a squid over a fire.
443
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,068
It was painful and horrifying.
444
00:28:16,027 --> 00:28:18,405
It was more painful than giving birth.
445
00:28:19,030 --> 00:28:20,824
I have two big scars, two.
446
00:28:21,408 --> 00:28:23,493
- [producer] Where?
- [woman] My belly.
447
00:28:23,576 --> 00:28:27,497
TIES TO SEXUAL DESIRE:
AN OBSESSION WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX
448
00:28:27,580 --> 00:28:30,834
Live alone.
Let go of sexual desire. Love nobody.
449
00:28:30,917 --> 00:28:33,378
To love God was good,
and it was permissible,
450
00:28:34,087 --> 00:28:37,257
but loving anybody else in this world
was not correct.
451
00:28:37,340 --> 00:28:39,660
It was a sin for men and women to date,
or love each other.
452
00:28:39,718 --> 00:28:40,802
FORMER MEMBER
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00:28:40,885 --> 00:28:42,971
If they did,
then it would be called adultery.
454
00:28:46,057 --> 00:28:48,828
IF A MAN AND WOMAN WERE INVOLVED
IN SOMETHING RESEMBLING A RELATIONSHIP
455
00:28:48,852 --> 00:28:51,622
THEY WERE TREATED LIKE SLAVES
THEY WEREN'T EVEN TREATED AS HUMAN BEINGS
456
00:28:51,646 --> 00:28:53,982
TO A DEGREE THAT COULDN'T BE SEEN
ANYWHERE ELSE ON EARTH
457
00:28:55,066 --> 00:28:57,360
Both women and men would become servants.
458
00:28:57,444 --> 00:28:59,362
It didn't matter
if they were older than her.
459
00:28:59,446 --> 00:29:01,281
She would treat them like servants.
460
00:29:02,490 --> 00:29:04,200
So the situation was that
461
00:29:04,284 --> 00:29:07,412
unless Kim Ki-soon let them go,
they had no freedom.
462
00:29:07,495 --> 00:29:11,416
It was like they were in jail. They had to
do everything that a slave would do,
463
00:29:11,499 --> 00:29:14,461
like getting up very early in the morning
to start cleaning.
464
00:29:14,544 --> 00:29:16,546
They would sleep way less than the rest,
465
00:29:16,629 --> 00:29:19,549
so basically,
they lost all of their freedom and rights.
466
00:29:19,632 --> 00:29:21,551
You had to keep your head down,
467
00:29:21,634 --> 00:29:23,595
stare at the ground like a criminal.
468
00:29:28,516 --> 00:29:30,602
[woman] I used to work with this one guy.
469
00:29:30,685 --> 00:29:32,604
I began to depend on him emotionally.
470
00:29:32,687 --> 00:29:34,314
Eventually, I liked him.
471
00:29:34,397 --> 00:29:37,484
I was having a really hard time
because of my feelings.
472
00:29:37,567 --> 00:29:40,069
But then, Kim Ki-soon found out about it.
473
00:29:40,153 --> 00:29:43,615
After that, I basically became her slave.
474
00:29:44,115 --> 00:29:46,659
I had to wear clothes
that were old and ragged,
475
00:29:46,743 --> 00:29:50,205
and I had to work
even when others were asleep.
476
00:29:51,581 --> 00:29:55,168
Back then, beatings were frequent.
She wouldn't do it in public, though.
477
00:29:55,251 --> 00:29:57,670
- [producer] Right.
- She would take you somewhere else.
478
00:29:57,754 --> 00:29:59,380
Beat you with anything.
479
00:29:59,464 --> 00:30:01,466
I even saw her using a chain once.
480
00:30:02,550 --> 00:30:03,843
It was a bicycle chain.
481
00:30:08,473 --> 00:30:10,850
She beat people up whenever she wanted.
482
00:30:10,934 --> 00:30:13,394
But she forced their relatives
to do it first,
483
00:30:13,478 --> 00:30:17,649
saying the legal consequences would
be less if a family member did it too.
484
00:30:18,149 --> 00:30:21,194
If somebody else beat you,
it would be grounds for assault.
485
00:30:21,277 --> 00:30:24,656
But if it was a family member,
you could say it was disciplinary.
486
00:30:24,739 --> 00:30:26,908
There were kids hitting their parents.
487
00:30:30,328 --> 00:30:33,248
[woman] How was it possible for a child
to strike their own parent?
488
00:30:33,331 --> 00:30:35,834
But in order to live there, both of us,
489
00:30:36,584 --> 00:30:38,920
my older sister and I,
had to hit our mother.
490
00:30:42,048 --> 00:30:46,845
Kim Ki-soon said my mother had gone crazy
because she was possessed.
491
00:30:47,345 --> 00:30:50,265
And that my mother
had met with one of the guys,
492
00:30:50,348 --> 00:30:53,601
that she had hugged him
and had sex with him.
493
00:30:54,227 --> 00:30:55,854
She told us both to beat her up.
494
00:30:57,772 --> 00:31:00,149
When my sister and I
started to hit my mother...
495
00:31:00,233 --> 00:31:01,359
[sighs]
496
00:31:01,943 --> 00:31:03,862
...everybody else began to beat her too.
497
00:31:10,410 --> 00:31:14,038
A lot of things happened there
that are unthinkable for most people.
498
00:31:14,122 --> 00:31:17,292
You really never knew
who would rat you out.
499
00:31:17,375 --> 00:31:19,502
Everyone was spying on each other.
500
00:31:19,586 --> 00:31:24,299
That is why I decided to run away
from home when I was in fifth grade.
501
00:31:25,967 --> 00:31:27,427
[rail crossing bell ringing]
502
00:31:27,510 --> 00:31:29,137
But some adults
503
00:31:30,263 --> 00:31:32,265
from Baby Garden found me right away
504
00:31:32,849 --> 00:31:34,475
and dragged me back to Icheon.
505
00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:37,854
[poignant music]
506
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,196
It was in Icheon
where Kim Ki-soon started to beat me up.
507
00:31:50,241 --> 00:31:52,452
I was beaten to the point of death.
508
00:31:53,578 --> 00:31:55,914
I was covered in bruises from head to toe.
509
00:31:56,664 --> 00:31:58,291
She didn't miss a single spot.
510
00:32:00,126 --> 00:32:02,712
[producer] What about your parents?
Where were they?
511
00:32:02,795 --> 00:32:05,048
Honestly, they couldn't interfere.
512
00:32:05,632 --> 00:32:09,052
If they had tried to tell her to stop,
it would've been worse.
513
00:32:10,428 --> 00:32:11,971
We would've all been beaten.
514
00:32:12,639 --> 00:32:15,767
My mom must have been hurting,
but she kept silent.
515
00:32:16,935 --> 00:32:19,020
You couldn't say anything to Kim Ki-soon.
516
00:32:22,982 --> 00:32:24,567
It was absolute terror.
517
00:32:25,109 --> 00:32:27,820
I lived in complete fear. Always.
518
00:32:28,321 --> 00:32:30,156
She hit me all the time.
519
00:32:30,657 --> 00:32:32,533
She got other people to hit me.
520
00:32:33,034 --> 00:32:34,619
That was commonplace.
521
00:32:34,702 --> 00:32:36,746
I was always afraid.
522
00:32:37,330 --> 00:32:40,249
[Bong-sik] Some of the people
who escaped Baby Garden
523
00:32:40,333 --> 00:32:42,710
began to share their shocking stories.
524
00:32:46,464 --> 00:32:51,177
They said Kim Ki-soon had slept with
a lot of young male followers.
525
00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:55,223
She forced everybody else
to live a life of celibacy.
526
00:32:55,765 --> 00:33:00,019
But for herself,
she would pick the best young men.
527
00:33:00,770 --> 00:33:04,273
She thought they were good-looking,
but also healthy.
528
00:33:05,233 --> 00:33:07,402
So she would indulge her own desires.
529
00:33:07,485 --> 00:33:12,031
At the time of the trial, I wrote
a news article about that situation.
530
00:33:12,657 --> 00:33:13,817
MEN PLEAD FOR "LOVE MEETINGS"
531
00:33:13,866 --> 00:33:15,306
Witnesses believed God touched them.
532
00:33:15,368 --> 00:33:16,786
DANCES NAKED IN A LUXURIOUS BEDROOM
533
00:33:19,163 --> 00:33:20,915
THROWING SEX PARTIES
534
00:33:22,583 --> 00:33:26,004
She didn't do it with just anybody,
she only let her favorites do it.
535
00:33:26,087 --> 00:33:28,089
I mean, isn't it obvious?
536
00:33:28,172 --> 00:33:30,633
What did she do with them
behind closed doors?
537
00:33:30,717 --> 00:33:32,468
I was young at the time.
538
00:33:32,552 --> 00:33:35,763
I wouldn't just look away
when she showed me her breasts.
539
00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:37,974
In that moment, I started to suck on them.
540
00:33:38,474 --> 00:33:40,643
I really thought that she was my lover.
541
00:33:42,061 --> 00:33:44,355
There were
a lot of young people back then.
542
00:33:44,439 --> 00:33:47,233
Some were even younger than me.
We were all in our 20s.
543
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,155
When she gave us a hug
and patted us on the back,
544
00:33:52,238 --> 00:33:54,782
we were absolutely ecstatic.
545
00:33:55,783 --> 00:33:57,744
That display of approval made us happy.
546
00:34:02,623 --> 00:34:05,126
[man 2] Kim Ki-soon likes
really good-looking people,
547
00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:06,794
and also very young.
548
00:34:09,756 --> 00:34:13,801
At the time, we thought that
our relationships with women and God
549
00:34:13,885 --> 00:34:15,344
were one and the same.
550
00:34:19,307 --> 00:34:22,435
How nice is it to think
that God was your lover?
551
00:34:22,518 --> 00:34:26,814
That's why we all loved her
with such devotion.
552
00:34:27,315 --> 00:34:28,858
When guys went in there...
553
00:34:28,941 --> 00:34:30,234
FORMER MEMBER OF THE BABY GARDEN
554
00:34:30,318 --> 00:34:31,986
...they were grunting and making noises.
555
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:34,238
I figured they were having sex.
556
00:34:34,322 --> 00:34:36,341
- It was...
- [producer] You could actually hear them?
557
00:34:36,365 --> 00:34:39,243
Of course!
You could hear them in there having sex.
558
00:34:39,911 --> 00:34:42,830
There were always guys going in and out.
559
00:34:44,207 --> 00:34:49,545
One guy would come out and tell
another guy to go inside her room as well.
560
00:34:50,129 --> 00:34:52,381
When they came out,
their faces were flushed.
561
00:34:53,633 --> 00:34:57,678
There were men who waited all night to go
in there, but they never got to do it.
562
00:34:57,762 --> 00:34:59,972
I don't think she spent a single night
by herself.
563
00:35:01,015 --> 00:35:04,018
Whenever they went in,
the women got jealous.
564
00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:09,232
Because we were born women, we couldn't
experience her love like men did.
565
00:35:09,315 --> 00:35:11,901
[laughs] We were all jealous,
I wasn't the only one.
566
00:35:11,984 --> 00:35:13,361
[door opens]
567
00:35:13,444 --> 00:35:15,446
[somber piano music]
568
00:35:18,407 --> 00:35:21,702
[sighs] I got special treatment
back in Baby Garden.
569
00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:23,454
FORMER MEMBER OF THE BABY GARDEN
570
00:35:24,455 --> 00:35:28,042
Apparently,
I was pretty handsome back then.
571
00:35:29,627 --> 00:35:34,507
Some of the members got jealous
because she treated me so well.
572
00:35:36,008 --> 00:35:39,470
For example,
she would be eating the nicest food,
573
00:35:39,554 --> 00:35:42,056
then she would take a couple of bites
574
00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:45,893
and tell me, "Come sit over here.
Eat this instead."
575
00:35:48,563 --> 00:35:53,025
The first time she called me,
she was lying on her bed in her pajamas.
576
00:35:54,277 --> 00:35:57,029
She wore pajamas
that always showed her cleavage.
577
00:35:58,072 --> 00:35:59,657
She said, "Wanna look?"
578
00:36:00,158 --> 00:36:04,495
Then she showed me her breasts
and told me to touch them.
579
00:36:05,788 --> 00:36:10,084
She asked if I was shy,
and she said she was Love.
580
00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:12,628
She told me to take off my clothes.
581
00:36:13,254 --> 00:36:15,173
First, she asked to take off my pants.
582
00:36:15,673 --> 00:36:17,133
She told me to show her...
583
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,845
And that's when she sexually assaulted me.
584
00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:26,350
God, I don't want to think about it.
585
00:36:27,351 --> 00:36:28,978
Makes me want to throw up.
586
00:36:31,606 --> 00:36:35,193
[man 2] Now that I think about it,
she was strategically playing with us.
587
00:36:36,819 --> 00:36:40,406
She deceived us while taking advantage
of naive young boys.
588
00:36:42,825 --> 00:36:45,369
Guys like me thought of her
as a love interest,
589
00:36:45,453 --> 00:36:47,914
so after we got a taste of those feelings,
590
00:36:48,456 --> 00:36:50,499
we started working really hard for her.
591
00:36:51,042 --> 00:36:53,044
[choral music]
592
00:36:58,799 --> 00:37:00,509
It's absolutely unbelievable.
593
00:37:00,593 --> 00:37:04,722
She basically enslaved each and every
person inside that organization
594
00:37:04,805 --> 00:37:06,432
for her personal wishes.
595
00:37:06,515 --> 00:37:09,810
The unique thing about Baby Garden
was its exclusivity.
596
00:37:09,894 --> 00:37:11,437
They didn't evangelize.
597
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,899
Cults usually try to take in more people
to attract them and expand,
598
00:37:14,982 --> 00:37:19,153
but Baby Garden made money
by exploiting their own members for labor.
599
00:37:19,820 --> 00:37:23,866
With that money, Kim Ki-soon
could do whatever she wanted in the world.
600
00:37:26,285 --> 00:37:27,703
AN OBSESSION WITH MATERIAL GOODS
601
00:37:27,787 --> 00:37:29,330
[man] I was basically a slave.
602
00:37:29,830 --> 00:37:31,332
Kim Ki-soon's slave.
603
00:37:33,084 --> 00:37:35,127
They put every single person to work.
604
00:37:35,211 --> 00:37:37,421
If you weren't a salesman,
you were a farmer.
605
00:37:37,505 --> 00:37:40,216
If you were not a farmer,
they would find you some other use.
606
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,637
Even the old women would help,
trimming the vegetables and cooking.
607
00:37:45,263 --> 00:37:46,806
Laziness wasn't allowed.
608
00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:52,353
Sometimes I just wanted
to take a nap for five minutes.
609
00:37:52,853 --> 00:37:56,899
I got so sleepy out on the street.
I needed to get rest.
610
00:37:56,983 --> 00:37:58,734
Even if there was nothing to sleep on,
611
00:37:58,818 --> 00:38:02,947
I wanted to nap on the ground
for five minutes to make me feel better.
612
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:08,035
THIS FOOTAGE DOES NOT CONTAIN
ANYONE FEATURED
613
00:38:09,662 --> 00:38:12,290
[video narrator] On March 11th,
at Jongno 3-ga Station in Seoul,
614
00:38:12,373 --> 00:38:15,584
a boy dressed in ragged clothes
boarded the subway train
615
00:38:15,668 --> 00:38:17,878
and offered chewing gum
and chocolate to passengers.
616
00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:19,338
- [man] How much?
- One fifty, sir.
617
00:38:19,422 --> 00:38:20,506
[man] Ah, here.
618
00:38:21,465 --> 00:38:26,178
[woman] They used kids to sell things,
they made the children act like orphans.
619
00:38:26,679 --> 00:38:29,015
Little kids in elementary
and middle school.
620
00:38:29,598 --> 00:38:31,475
They made them sell things to people.
621
00:38:33,519 --> 00:38:34,895
"Go follow that person."
622
00:38:35,479 --> 00:38:37,440
"Offer some to that lady over there."
623
00:38:41,027 --> 00:38:45,323
They even made the kids beg.
All of them did it, every single one.
624
00:38:45,906 --> 00:38:47,908
[wistful music]
625
00:38:58,336 --> 00:38:59,337
FORMER MEMBER
626
00:38:59,420 --> 00:39:02,590
None of my kids had the chance
to go to high school or anything.
627
00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:03,924
FORMER MEMBER
628
00:39:04,008 --> 00:39:05,760
Some of them were good students,
629
00:39:05,843 --> 00:39:07,511
but they were not sent to school,
630
00:39:07,595 --> 00:39:09,638
despite having potential to thrive.
631
00:39:11,766 --> 00:39:14,352
She said
we didn't need to learn anything else.
632
00:39:14,435 --> 00:39:15,895
We were at God's kingdom.
633
00:39:16,896 --> 00:39:19,148
She actually forced us to stop studying.
634
00:39:19,857 --> 00:39:22,568
So I dropped out of school
during the summer break
635
00:39:22,651 --> 00:39:24,445
of my first year in middle school.
636
00:39:25,446 --> 00:39:27,656
"You don't need school.
The world is ending."
637
00:39:27,740 --> 00:39:29,200
She didn't let them study.
638
00:39:29,283 --> 00:39:31,827
On the other hand,
her own kids were doing great.
639
00:39:31,911 --> 00:39:35,164
They went to college,
and even studied abroad.
640
00:39:37,291 --> 00:39:38,709
Of what I remember,
641
00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:40,711
none of us were getting paid.
642
00:39:40,795 --> 00:39:44,298
I didn't have access to my bank account,
I didn't even know I had one.
643
00:39:45,841 --> 00:39:47,843
They opened bank accounts in our name.
644
00:39:47,927 --> 00:39:50,721
They kept the checkbooks.
They handled it all.
645
00:39:50,805 --> 00:39:55,309
They managed our bank accounts
and we lived on whatever they gave us.
646
00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:58,604
That's just how we lived,
working whenever they told us to.
647
00:40:00,940 --> 00:40:03,943
Using her followers' offerings,
the leader Kim Ki-soon
648
00:40:04,026 --> 00:40:06,695
established a company
called SynNara Distribution,
649
00:40:06,779 --> 00:40:09,198
a very influential company
in the music industry.
650
00:40:10,783 --> 00:40:13,953
[man 2] SynNara Distribution
was established in 1982,
651
00:40:14,036 --> 00:40:17,415
achieving spectacular growth
that has spread to rural neighborhoods,
652
00:40:17,498 --> 00:40:19,625
making records available to everybody.
653
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,504
Back then,
she wanted to start a record business.
654
00:40:23,587 --> 00:40:24,588
RECORDS
655
00:40:24,672 --> 00:40:29,593
She bought wholesale vinyl records
and cassette tapes in Cheonggyecheon.
656
00:40:30,177 --> 00:40:32,388
She started selling them to record stores.
657
00:40:33,722 --> 00:40:36,308
She didn't have anything else
to spend our money on,
658
00:40:36,392 --> 00:40:40,396
so she managed
to save up a huge amount of money.
659
00:40:41,439 --> 00:40:44,859
THE BABY GARDEN IS A "RECORD KINGDOM"
660
00:40:44,942 --> 00:40:49,405
THE LARGEST RECORD STORE
IN SOUTH KOREA WILL OPEN
661
00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:53,784
SYNNARA MUSIC
662
00:40:53,868 --> 00:40:56,120
[Sun-bok] They made... so much money.
663
00:40:56,787 --> 00:40:58,372
I heard they were actually making...
664
00:40:58,456 --> 00:40:59,665
FORMER MEMBER
WORKED AT SYNNARA
665
00:40:59,748 --> 00:41:01,333
...an unspeakable amount of money.
666
00:41:01,417 --> 00:41:02,793
FORMER MEMBER
WORKED AT SYNNARA
667
00:41:02,877 --> 00:41:07,256
I think Kim Ki-soon's room was about
one and a half thousand square feet.
668
00:41:07,339 --> 00:41:08,674
And when we got the money,
669
00:41:08,757 --> 00:41:13,345
two-thirds of that room was filled right
up to the ceiling with all that cash.
670
00:41:18,809 --> 00:41:20,811
[dramatic music]
671
00:41:21,937 --> 00:41:23,397
I lived in terror.
672
00:41:27,776 --> 00:41:29,153
[Min-koo] In the beginning,
673
00:41:29,236 --> 00:41:32,239
I honestly thought that what was happening
could not be true.
674
00:41:32,865 --> 00:41:34,325
That's how shocking it was.
675
00:41:36,827 --> 00:41:38,287
[woman] They're all dead.
676
00:41:38,370 --> 00:41:42,333
Yoon Yong-ung, Seo Jong-won,
Nak-gwi, Mi-gyeong, all of them.
677
00:41:42,416 --> 00:41:44,418
It was completely beyond my imagination.
678
00:41:45,252 --> 00:41:47,963
Still... it wasn't complete nonsense.
679
00:41:50,841 --> 00:41:52,843
[dramatic music]
680
00:42:00,309 --> 00:42:01,703
ALL INTERVIEWS USE REAL TESTIMONIES
681
00:42:01,727 --> 00:42:04,488
TO PROTECT THE SUBJECTS' IDENTITY,
SOME INTERVIEWS HAVE BEEN REENACTED
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