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TIL in 2011, a Korean sect known as “Good News Mission” scammed around 400 teachers with a recruitment scheme to teach English in Mexico that were really lectures where the guests were forced by guards to engage in a ballroom and were subjected to physical punishment for things such as tardiness.

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