Comments on: Removing Anti-UBF Articles

By: BrianK

BrianK — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:35:02 +0000

Andrew, yes the same was reported at staff conferences here in the US. I remember the Internet Committee reporting how the good ubf websites rose to the top of Google. In fact, I helped do that! I used to spend hours clicking on all the good ubf website links! I repent of that now :)

Also this is no longer true. If you search just for “ubf”, you will get anti ubf material on the first page. Also Google now has a pop-up of choices when you start typing. If you type “ubf”, you immediately see “ubf cult” as a choice. According to Google analytics for my blog, many people are clicking on that choice.

By: Andrew Shpagin

Andrew Shpagin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:23:34 +0000

When I was in UBF Peter Kim told once on the leaders meeting that good job done and now anti UBF sites appear on the second page while seeking in google, not first page. I was so shocked that times… It was big argument for me to start investigation.

By: BrianK

BrianK — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:26:16 +0000

I found the full article. It is posted here: http://www.priestlynation.com/archives/478

By: BrianK

BrianK — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:39:34 +0000

In case anyone is wondering, here is the Google cache of one of the two articles that were removed from Urban Dictionary:

Note: Anyone who knows even a little about Google can do a search for “ubf urban dictionary” and click the “cached” link to find these articles.
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University Bible Fellowship. Evangelical Korean-American church, headquartered in Chicago and Seoul with chapters in all major cities around the world.

UBF targets “lost” undergraduates to turn them into evangelists themselves. College students who are lonely, depressed or in trouble are attracted by their warm welcome, Christian faith, and supportive UBF community. A new-comer to UBF is called “sheep” who is usually at a troubled period of their lives and can be easily molded into UBF ideology.

UBF members are are expected to follow strongly hierarchical Confucionist Korean traditions as well as very conservative Christian values. After about a year or two of attending meeting and performing some UBF activities and acknowledging “meeting Jesus personally” the new-comer is now called a “Shepherd”.

Most “sheep” leave after a couple of months after learning about the closed-mindedness the group. Other people may stay in order not to hurt the feelings of the their UBF “shepherds” who gave them too much attention. Strict obedience to the values of the group is expected. Among the ve…