page_title: Ock Soo Park
section_title: Ministry career
hierarchical_section_title: Ock Soo Park / Ministry career
caption_attribution_description: English: World Camp being held in South Korea with over 4000 college students participating from 60 countries.
context_page_description: Park Ock-Soo, or Anglicized as Ock Soo Park, is an evangelist based in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea. He founded the Good News Mission, a Christian based new religious movement also known as Guwonpa. He has also founded other organizations, including the Gracias Choir and Orchestra and the International Youth Fellowship.
context_section_description: As a minister, Park has founded several organizations.
  The Good News Mission was founded in 1972 as a missionary school. The organization runs a number of churches throughout South Korea, and sends missionaries abroad. A fraud/scam case against Park and the Good News Mission ended in an acquittal by Korea's Supreme Court; the charge was that Park had sold stock fraudulently to church members and "raked in unlawful profits", but the Supreme Court held that "it is hard to regard Park as an accomplice".
  In 2000, Park founded the Gracias Choir, an orchestra and choral ensemble which travels with Park on his international tours. The choir has won various prizes in choir festivals, including the 2015 Marktoberdorf Choral Competition in Germany.
  The International Youth Fellowship (IYF) is a Christian-based NGO which Park established in 2001. It has branches in a number of countries, and also operates the "Good News Corps" for college students.
  Park has travelled and delivered sermons internationally. In 2016 he was invited to preach a sermon at the "King's Prayer Meeting" in Swaziland (now Eswatini), which was broadcast by the national radio station.
caption: IYF World Camp