South Korea "Erased" 4,000 People To Host The Olympic Games: True Story Behind “Squid Game”

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Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It’s the biggest church in South Korea but nobody knows it exists. The church itself can fit at least 4,000 church goers all at once. But that’s not the intriguing part of the church… they just do things differently. There are a row of people standing in front of the pastor. They are asking him for forgiveness but they’re all wearing the same thing. A red sack with big ugly painted letters on there that read “I am a sinner who has gone against God’s word.” Pastor Lim prays over them - one by one. Before he turns around and pulls out a set of red boxing gloves. He slowly, calmly puts them on and starts beating the people down. He doesn’t stop till the entire row of red sack wearing people are bloody on the floor. Then he calmly fixes his clothes and heads back to the podium to continue preaching to the church goers. This is not a cult story. This is Brother’s Home. A government funded camp to cleanse the humans of South Korea ahead of the Olympics. The true story behind the Squid Game show.

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0:00.0	It is one of the biggest churches in the city of Pusan in South Korea.
0:07.6	Only, nobody really knows it exists.
0:10.3	It's in the middle of the woods.
0:12.2	You have to be invited in to join the church, but it's also not a cult.
0:16.3	This is not a cult story.
0:19.1	The church has the capacity to seat 3,500 people, give or take, sometimes it's 4,000.
0:26.5	There are just what feels like an endless row upon row upon row of rock-hard church pews.
0:33.9	Every church member is forced to sit on for hours every single Sunday. Thews the chairs they're at a firm 90 degree angle and because attendance is so high you're arm to arm in the summer it feels like you and the person next to you are going to fuse together in the flesh because the sweat the moist, just touching each other for hours at a time,
0:56.8	winter is not as bad, but every single Sunday, the inevitable moment comes like every Sunday,
1:02.9	the red sack people. The pastor, Pastor Lim at the podium, will ask the red sack members
1:08.8	to come up. It looks like a row of red floating balls that just
1:14.3	float onto the stage. But they're people. They're wearing red burlap sacks with ugly paint on the front.
1:21.5	And the ugly paint reads, I am a sinner who has gone against God's word. Everyone in the church
1:26.8	holds their breath as the pastor
1:28.2	approaches the red sack people. His eyes look soft. They look sympathetic. He puts his hands on their heads
1:34.7	and they bow down. The pastor closes his eyes. In the name of Jesus, you are being punished.
1:40.9	Then he moves to the next hand. In the name of Jesus, you are being punished. And then the next, one by one, he does this to all of them. In the name of Jesus, you are being punished.
1:46.8	And then the next, one by one, he does this to all of them.
1:48.7	In the name of Jesus, you are being punished.
1:50.1	In the name of Jesus, you are being punished.
1:53.0	And then he turns around, the pastor does.
1:56.1	And when he turns back to face the row of red sack wearing people,
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