Dunia and Newstapa report that the Unification Church's Japan-built vote trading model was imported into the Yoon administration, tying church mobilization, campaign work and political protection, and likely shaping Korean politics far beyond what was known.
Abe’s 2022 assassination revived decades of ignored abuses tied to the Unification Church. In this Dunia investigation, we trace its political networks, massive fundraising system, and the path that led Japan to order the Church’s dissolution.
The Unification Church’s resources became linked with Yoon Suk-yeol’s power, exposing unprecedented religion–state collusion in S.Korea. Newstapa and Dunia traced this model to the Church’s Japan influence network and its close ties to the Abe family
This report was jointly investigated and produced by Dunia (YouTube.com/@the_dunia_media) — a member newsroom of the Korea Independent News Network (KINN) — in collaboration with the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism – Newstapa. It was revealed that in March 2022, a senior executive of the Family Federation for World