Yoo Byung-eun
| Yoo Byung-eun | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 February 1941 Kyoto, Japan |
| Died | 16 April - June 2014 (aged 73) Suncheon, South Korea |
| Residence | Geumsuwon, Anseong, South Korea |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Other names | "Ahae", "The Millionaire with no Face" |
| Alma mater | Seonggwang High School |
| Occupation | Pastor, inventor, businessman, photographer |
| Known for | MV Sewol |
| Home town | Daegu |
| Spouse(s) | Kwon Yun-ja (married 1966–2014; his death) |
| Children | 4 |
| Website |
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Yu Byeong-eon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yu Pyŏng'ŏn |
Yoo Byung-eun (Hangul: 유병언; Hanja: 兪炳彦; RR: Yu Byeong-eon; 11 February 1941 – 2014) was a South Korean religious leader, businessman, and inventor, who as a photographer was known under the art name Ahae. Due to his reclusiveness, he was known as "the millionaire with no face".
Believed to be the de facto leader of the company operating the ferry MV Sewol that sank en route from Incheon towards Jeju on 16 April 2014, Yoo had gone into hiding and was Korea's most-wanted fugitive, after the Incheon District Court issued an arrest warrant on 22 May. South Korean authorities initially offered a ₩50 million (~US$48,800) reward for information leading to the arrest of Yoo. On 25 May the reward was raised tenfold to ₩500 million (~US$488,000). On 21 July, it was reported that a body found in a field in June is believed to be Yoo's.
Yoo was born in Kyoto, Japan to Korean parents on 11 February 1941. Yoo's family returned to Korea following the liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945 and settled in Daegu, where Yoo graduated from Seonggwang High School.
According to the U.S.-based non-profit organization Evangelical Media Group created by Yoo in 2001, "he first began to live for the sake of the gospel in 1961," and that he "worked as an inventor and businessman to support the spreading of the gospel all over the world". Yoo was one of 11 students admitted to the Good News Mission Bible school established in Korea by American and English missionaries, but he was expelled. He founded what later became the Evangelical Baptist Church of Korea, also known as the Salvation Sect, in 1962 with his father-in-law, Pastor Kwon Shin-chan (권신찬; 1923–96). The church was held to be a cult by the conservative Christian denomination, the General Assembly of Presbyterian Churches, in 1992.
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