(SOUTH KOREA)
Maeil Business Newspaper [Seoul, South Korea]
March 24, 2026
By Maeng Sunggyu
* It has been translated using AI
A former pastor accused of sex exploitation of church goddesses for about a decade denied the charges in his first trial.
The Seoul Eastern District Court’s Criminal Agreement Department 12 (Chief Judge Kim Se-yong) held its first hearing on a man in his 50s who was arrested and charged with habitual quasi-rape on the 24th.
A denied the allegations, saying, “It was not a one-sided religious and economic subordinate relationship with the victims.”
Accordingly, the court decided to conduct a witness examination of the victims. The next hearing is on May 11.
Yoon is accused of continuing sexual violence against four female church members from 2015 to the end of 2024. In January last year, the victims filed a complaint with the police against Yoon, claiming that he had been repeatedly sexually harassed and committed adultery.
The victims claimed that Yoon defended his crime with the intention that “King David also had several women.” The Christian Presbyterian Church of Korea, which received a letter demanding punishment from the victims, removed him from school in May last year.