The Rapture at Midnight, October 28, 1992
Seoul Church Awaits a Midnight Rapture. At 12:10 a.m., a Voice at the Window: 'Nothing's Happening!'
Pastor Lee Jang Rim's Dami Mission spread the word that believers would be lifted to heaven at midnight on October 28, 1992. An estimated 20,000 South Koreans believed it.
What was claimed (paraphrase)
Believers would be lifted into heaven at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, October 28, 1992, at the beginning of the end of the world. (Summary of the prediction as reported by the Los Angeles Times.)
— Lee Jang Rim, pastor of the Dami Mission church, Seoul · said 1992 · due midnight, October 28, 1992 (Seoul)
Midnight came and went. Outside the church, 1,500 riot police and 100 journalists watched nobody leave by the roof.
The fine print
The Los Angeles Times reported that it 'was Dami Mission's pastor, Lee Jang Rim, who spread the Rapture theory throughout South Korea', and that the belief caused real hardship for followers. At 12:10 a.m. a teenage boy leaned out of a third-floor church window and yelled to the crowd: 'Nothing's happening!' The exact date the prediction was first made isn't given in these sources; it was circulating in 1992.
Sources
- No Doomsday Rapture for S. Korea Sect - Los Angeles Times (October 29, 1992)accessed 2026-09-29
- List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipediaaccessed 2026-09-29
As of Oct 9, 2026
since it didn't happen
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