Get Schooled / True Education — Chapter 102¶
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Opening — Even believers question the lack of school¶
Members of the closed religious community quietly discuss Seo-yool.
One says that no matter how corrupted the world may be, the child should at least learn basic addition, subtraction, and skills useful for the future.
Another believer rejects the idea.
The outside world is no place for the child.
A teenage girl listening to the argument begins narrating her own history.
Her name is Lee Ju-hee. She should currently be attending high school.
Three years earlier — Entering “heaven”¶
Ju-hee was in middle school when her parents suddenly moved the family.
They packed only clothing and left behind furniture, the television, and her computer.
Her parents said the destination would be like heaven and that ordinary possessions were unnecessary.
When the family arrived, Ju-hee immediately saw followers screaming, injuring themselves, begging to be cleansed, and dedicating everything to the lord.
Anyone could recognize the group as a pseudo-religion or cult.
The family brought only clothes because her parents sold everything else and donated the money to the church.
Ju-hee believes that moment may have been her last easy opportunity to escape.
The doctrine of the outside world¶
The church teaches that on December 1, 1979, demons escaped hell and took control of the United Nations and other organizations.
Schools and broadcasting then spread the devil’s words, corrupting men and women and turning the outside world into another hell.
The lord supposedly selected the pastor as an apostle to save people from that corruption.
The compound is called the House of the Lord and is presented as a protected refuge.
Because of the doctrine, members are not allowed to leave freely.
The “alternative school” is forced labor¶
Children are supposed to receive education through the church’s alternative school.
In reality, they receive little meaningful instruction.
They are taken to farms operated by the church and forced to work.
If they slow down, question orders, or fail to meet expectations, adults accuse them of being weakened by sin.
Punishments include beatings and withholding food.
Ju-hee’s younger brother Ju-hyeok was seven when the family entered. He is now ten and has never attended a real school.
Ju-hee decides she must escape for his sake.
The pastor’s private luxury¶
Ju-hee is summoned to the pastor.
His residence contains expensive vases, decorations, and foreign cars, even while followers work and suffer.
He says preaching all day made him tired and orders her to massage his shoulders.
He asks about Ju-hyeok.
Ju-hee answers that her brother is happy and doing well.
Internally she reminds herself not to let her mask slip. Open resistance would endanger both children before she can escape.
Street preaching is the only view outside¶
Beginning the previous month, Ju-hee was assigned to street preaching.
She is forced to declare that viruses, the United Nations, schools, and broadcasts are instruments of the devil.
The work is humiliating and attracts insults from pedestrians.
It is also the only time she sees the outside world, so it gives her hope.
Church supervisors remain nearby and watch constantly.
Lim asks about school¶
During one outing, a disguised Lim Han-rim notices Ju-hee.
Lim asks her age and observes that she appears to be a student.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT HERE ON A WEEKDAY?”
“WHAT ABOUT SCHOOL?”
A cult supervisor tells Lim to stop interfering and move on.
Lim says she was speaking to the child.
The supervisor attacks first and calls her a devil-seduced, hell-bound woman.
Lim knocks the adult down immediately.
She removes or adjusts her sunglasses and turns back to Ju-hee.
“I’LL ASK AGAIN.”
“WHAT ABOUT SCHOOL?”
The chapter ends on Ju-hee’s first possible contact with someone capable of confronting the cult’s authority.
Chapter-level observations¶
1. The cult sells all property before isolation¶
Financial dependence makes leaving harder and ensures parents have invested too much to admit deception easily.
2. Alternative education is a legal disguise¶
The children are described as receiving religious schooling, while their actual days are spent performing labor under violence.
3. Ju-hee survives through performance¶
She repeats approved answers around the pastor while privately planning an escape for her brother.
4. Lim’s question targets the institution’s weakest claim¶
The group may frame doctrine as religious freedom, but Ju-hee and Ju-hyeok are school-age children receiving no proper education.