[전국]’Franchise-type expansion’…IM Mission, 26 unlicensed educational facilities nationwide

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Anxiety is growing as the COVID-19 outbreak continues in the unauthorized educational facility of IM Mission.

It is known that the Mission has expanded its educational facilities to 26, just as it expanded its branches by connecting with local churches.

There are only 840 people involved and there are many students from other regions, so the spread of infection is a concern.

Reporter Ko Jae-hyung organized it.

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IM Mission is expanding its tax base by creating educational facilities and connecting with other churches to save the next generation.

Representative educational facilities include non-authorized alternative schools such as IEM International School, which is an elementary course, and TCS International School, which is a secondary course, and CAS after-school schools.

Looking at the data released on the website by the Mission, there are 26 facilities in 11 cities and provinces nationwide.

There are 9 locations in the metropolitan area such as Seoul, Gyeonggi and Incheon, with 8 locations in Gwangju and Jeonnam, 4 locations in Daejeon and Chungnam, where headquarters are located, 3 locations in Busan and Gyeongnam, and 2 locations in Daegu and Gyeongbuk.

As students lived in groups at boarding schools and did not observe the quarantine guidelines, more than 300 patients, including students and faculty members, occurred in Daejeon and Gwangju, where the headquarters are located.

For this reason, IM Mission posted an apology on the website and posted the status of confirmed cases and tests by school.

Experts analyzed that IM Missions aggressively increased schools by connecting with local churches like a franchise.

[권지연 / 평화나무 뉴스센터장 : (IM 선교회가) 문어발식으로 확장했다는 생각이 들어요. 교회에 자신들의 커리큘럼 등을 제공하고 전도에도 유용하다고 홍보를 했겠고 많은 교회가 거기에 화답했겠죠.]

In addition to schools, there are 17 more research facilities in the area, so the quarantine authorities are concerned that the third pandemic, which has barely stopped, will reignite.

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