[Cheonji Ilbo = Reporter Kim Bit-na] This year marks the third anniversary of the 'Ji-In Gu case', where a woman in her twenties died after being abused under confinement. However, the Ji-in Gu case did not receive much attention in Korea because it was dismissed as a 'family affair' or 'religious issue'. On the contrary, the international community's interest grew through foreign media coverage of her case calling for an end to religious oppression in South Korea.

According to reports from Cheonji Ilbo and foreign media on the 17th January 2021, the 9th January marked the third anniversary of the death of the late Ji-In Gu, a woman in her twenties. The late Gu was a member of Shincheonji Church of Jesus, The Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (Shincheonji Church of Jesus), who was imprisoned by her own family in a Catholic monastery in Jangseong county, Jeollanam province for 44 days in July 2016 to undergo coercive conversion.

In June 2017 the following year, Ms. Gu, who managed to escape, informed the presidential Blue House about the damage of coercive conversion and petitioned for swift punishment of coercive conversion pastors and enactment of law to prohibit religious discrimination. However, on December 29th of the same year, she again underwent coercive conversion in confinement at a pension in Hwasun county, Jeollanam province.

On December 30th 2017 at 5:40pm, Ms. Gu was caught by her father as she attempted to escape the pension in Hwasun county, Jeollanam province. Her mother forced her daughter's mouth shut. Ms. Gu, who lost consciousness due to breathing difficulties, was then evacuated to Chonnam National University Hospital, but was unable to regain consciousness. On January 9th 2018, she was diagnosed with hypoxic brain injury and passed away. At the time, she was just 27 years old.