'''Lee Man-hee''' ({{Korean|이만희|李萬熙}}; born 15 September 1931) is a South Korean cultreligious<ref name="NYT">{{Cite news |last=Rashid |first=Raphael |date=March 9, 2020 |title=Being Called a Cult Is One Thing, Being Blamed for an Epidemic Is Quite Another |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/opinion/coronavirus-south-korea-church.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616153046/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/opinion/coronavirus-south-korea-church.html |archive-date=June 16, 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref name="FoxNews">{{Cite news |last=McKay |first=Hollie |date=August 20, 2020 |title=Conservative church claims South Korea's government is persecuting them by blaming members for coronavirus spread |url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/south-korea-church-coronavirus-spread |work=[[Fox News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-09 |title=Inside the South Korean ‘doomsday cult’ recruiting young Black Christians in the UK |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/new-heaven-new-earth-lee-man-hee-cult-sect-b2119061.html |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> leader. Lee is the founder of the [[Shincheonji Church of Jesus]], a South Korean religious group with teachings derived from Christianity that is considered a [[pseudoreligion]] or [[cult]] by mainstream Christian churches.<ref name="thenational.ae">{{cite news |last=Webster |first=Nick |date=May 28, 2015 |url=http://www.thenational.ae/uae/mystery-surrounds-visit-to-uae-of-alleged-religious-cult|title=Mystery surrounds visit to UAE of alleged religious cult |work=[[The National (Abu Dhabi)]]}}</ref><ref name="Council of the European Union-Youth for Exchange and Understanding-participant">{{cite web |first=Martijn |last=Bergsma |title=How I ended up in a Korean religious cult - Council of the European Union-Youth for Exchange and Understanding-participant|url=http://www.yeu-international.org/en/publications/newsmail/small-stories-that-can-change-the-world/how-i-ended-up-in-a-korean-religious-cult |date=November 17, 2014 |series=yeu-international.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223104028/http://www.yeu-international.org/en/publications/newsmail/small-stories-that-can-change-the-world/how-i-ended-up-in-a-korean-religious-cult |archive-date=2014-12-23 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Some allege Lee is a self-proclaimed messiah, whoseand that his followers believe he is immortal and infallible.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-08-02 |title=Shincheonji Church leader jailed on obstruction charges |url=https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2020/08/02/national/socialAffairs/Lee-Manhee-Shincheonji-cult/20200802171600453.html |last1=Shim |first1=Kyu-Seok |last2=Moon |first2=Hee-Chul |access-date=2022-10-12 |work=[[Korea Joongang Daily]] |language=en}}</ref>
