Sun Myung Moon

@South Korean Men, Career and Family ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Sun Myung Moon was a Korean religious leader who founded the Unification Church South Korean Leaders Spiritual & Religious Leaders Pisces Celebrities Sun Myung Moon was a Korean religious leader, a self-proclaimed messiah who was the founder of the Unification Church. He was a leading figure in what Eileen V. Barker, a professor emeritus of sociology at the London School of Economics, called “the great wave of new religious movements and alternative religiosity in the 1960s and 1970s in the West”. He built a religious movement notable for its mass weddings and authored ‘The Divine Principle’, the main theological textbook of the Unification Church. Born into a family of farmers in Korea, he converted to Christianity as a young boy along with his family. From an early age he observed his surroundings and was distressed by rampant injustice and sufferings of the people. He believed that religion addressed the fundamental human condition and only religion could provide a way for easing the sufferings of the people. He once had a vision of Jesus asking him to continue the work which he had begun on earth nearly 2,000 years before. In order to fulfill the Lord’s command he plunged head on into religious studies in order to understand the deeper questions of life. Eventually he moved to the United States and became a leading figure of the new religious movement. With time he also branched out into political activism and business.

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Birthday: February 25, 1920 Died on: September 3, 2012 Nationality: South Korean Famous: Religious Leaders, South Korean Men, Spiritual, Leaders, Spiritual & Religious Leaders Spouses: Choi Sun-kil (1945–1957), Hak Ja Han (1960–2012) Known as: Mun Yong-myeong Birth Place: North P'yŏng'an, North Korea Information Detail Birthday February 25, 1920 Died on September 3, 2012 Nationality South Korean Famous Religious Leaders, South Korean Men, Spiritual, Leaders, Spiritual & Religious Leaders Spouses Choi Sun-kil (1945–1957), Hak Ja Han (1960–2012) Known as Mun Yong-myeong Birth Place North P'yŏng'an, North Korea Gender Male Sun Sign Pisces Born in North P'yŏng'an, North Korea Famous as Religious Leader Died at Age 92

North P'yŏng'an, North Korea

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He married Sun Kil Choi on 28 April 1945. A son was born to them. This marriage was a highly troubled one and ended in divorce in 1957. Unsplash Personal Life

He married again on 11 April 1960; his second wife was a young teenaged girl, Hak Ja Han, who would eventually bear him 13 children. The couple was referred to as “True Parents” by members of the Unification Church and their family as the "True Family". Unsplash Personal Life

He died on 3 September 2012 after a brief illness, at the age of 92. Unsplash Personal Life

He was born as Mun Yong-myeong on 25 February 1920, in modern-day North P'yŏng'an Province, North Korea. He was one of the eight children in a large farming family. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

His family which initially followed the Confucianist beliefs converted to Christianity and joined the Presbyterian Church when Mun was around 10 years old. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

At that time Korea was ruled by Japan and growing up oppressed in his own country made the boy sensitive to the injustices and sufferings around him. Early on he developed humanitarian sympathy for all living beings and was troubled by mans’ inability to cerate a just and loving world. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

When he was 15, he had a vision of Jesus instructing him to carry on his unfinished work of uniting mankind by being their saviour. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He enrolled at Waseda University in Japan in 1941 to study electrical engineering. He became involved in student underground activities and was arrested and tortured for not revealing the names of his collaborators. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He arrived at the southern port city of Pusan after escaping and it was here that he began his religious career in earnest. Along with a disciple, he built the first Unification Church using discarded army ration boxes. Unsplash Later Years

At that time he had only a few disciplines, but was confident that one day his message would reach millions across the world. He founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in 1954. Unsplash Later Years

His religious movement garnered a lot of attention and soon he gained plenty of loyal followers. But his teachings also kindled much controversies and he was often arrested and thrown into jail. Yet each time he managed to get out as the authorities could not find any incriminating evidence against his alleged misdoings. Unsplash Later Years

Along side with the Unification Church he also created a “Weeping Church”, known so because of his and his followers’ tearful prayers to the Lord. His religious teachings were gaining in momentum across the nation and by 1957 churches were established in 30 Korean cities and towns. Unsplash Later Years

One of the most famous rituals that he created was the “blessing ceremony” or the “mass wedding”. This ritual was enacted by him to highlight the Unification Church’s emphasis on traditional moral values. Unsplash Later Years

Moon was posthumously awarded North Korea's National Reunification Prize in 2012. Unsplash Awards & Achievements

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Birthday	February 25, 1920
Died on	September 3, 2012
Nationality	South Korean
Famous	Religious Leaders, South Korean Men, Spiritual, Leaders, Spiritual & Religious Leaders
Spouses	Choi Sun-kil (1945–1957), Hak Ja Han (1960–2012)
Known as	Mun Yong-myeong
Birth Place	North P'yŏng'an, North Korea
Gender	Male
Sun Sign	Pisces
Born in	North P'yŏng'an, North Korea
Famous as	Religious Leader
Died at Age	92

Sun Myung Moon

South Korean

Feb 25, 1920

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North P'yŏng'an, North Korea