The Tragedy of the Six Marys – Sun Myung Moon is the real Satan!!

Updated January 24, 2026

The Period Before and After the Founding of the Unification Church

Translated from the Korean. Some photos and information have been added. The Japanese text can be found HERE. The Korean text is HERE.

▲ (front row) from the left
Choi Soon-wha (mother of Sam Park)
李奇煥 Lee Kee-hwan was a member in Busan in May 1953
池承道 Chi Seung-do joined in Pyongyang in 1946
Ok Se-hyun met Moon on November 6, 1946 in Pyongyang
文鮮明 Moon Sun-myung
Kang Hyun-shil, one of the six Marys
Kim Soon-cheol, one of the six Marys, according to Moon
金在根 Kim Chae-keun
劉信姫 Eu Shin-hee was interviewed by Japanese national TV in 1993
about her pikaeum experience with Sun Myung Moon.

(back row) from the left
李成範 Lee Seong-peom
Pak Chung-hwa was in the UC 1949-1957 and 1981-1986
趙東錫 Cho Dong-seok did public relations for the UC in 1955
李耀翰 Lee Yo-han joined in Busan on December 10, 1952
.           He had been a main disciple of Chong Deuk-eun.
羅英洙 Na/Ra Yeong-su
李昌煥 Lee Chang-hwan signed founding of HSA-UWC document
.           He was UC President from May to August 1954, then he left UC.
劉孝元 Eu Hyo-won was the first president of HSA-UWC. He was the main author of the 1957 Divine Principle. He died on July 24, 1970.
金相哲 Kim Sang-cheol, known as David SC Kim
劉孝敏 Eu Hyo-min made an economic foundation for the UC;
.           He took many photos.
李秀郷 Lee Su-hyang

❖ The biographical information above has been added. The book caption just lists all the names.

The Zeal of the Female Followers

The church in Sujeong-dong, Busan

I, Pak Chung-hwa, went to find Teacher Moon at the newly purchased house in Sujeong-dong, Busan, on May 15, 1953. Teacher Moon was extremely pleased to see me and spoke in detail about the course of events up to that point and about future plans. At last, the time had come to work for the great undertaking. Teacher Moon said that we should firmly steel our hearts and press forward with all our strength.

Then, writing things down on paper as if giving private instruction, he taught what he had already explained many times before: the process of the 6,000 years of history, the Principle of Creation, the Principle of the Fall, the Principle of Restoration, the mission of the returning Jesus, and the proper attitude toward it.

By then, Teacher Moon had removed the character Yong (龍) from his name and was writing it as Moon Seon-myeong (文鮮明).

At that time, the main members living together were Kim Won-pil, Jeong Seong-ok, Kang Hyun-shil, Ok Se-hyun, Chi Seung-do, Lee Gi-hwan, Lee Bong-un, Lee Su-gyeong and her family, Teacher Moon’s wife Choi Seon-gil and their eldest son Seong-jin, and Pastor Lee Yo-han. New members who were only participating in worship services included Shin Jeong-sun, Kim An-sil, Kim Jae-chaek, Kim Bok-sun and her family, and Oh Yeong-choon. Setting aside the eldest son, aside from Kim Won-pil, Lee Bong-un, Lee Su-gyeong, and Lee Yo-han, all the others were women.

At that time, Kim Won-pil was working at a U.S. military base, and in the evenings he brought back photographs of American soldiers and did portrait drawings. I do not recall their names, but a young married couple who said they were from Ulsan had newly joined. One day, that couple went out evangelizing all day and did not return until late at night, and in their fervor of the Holy Spirit they seemed like completely different people. Coincidentally, that night there was a lunar eclipse, and upon seeing it the couple cried out loudly, wept, and caused a commotion, shouting that a light had shone from heaven.

Although we managed to calm them down with an explanation that it was a lunar eclipse, on another afternoon Chi Seung-do, Ok Se-hyun, Lee Gi-hwan, and others were listening to stories about the spirit world and became so captivated by their mysterious nature that they fainted.

A few days later, Teacher Moon summoned me.

“From now on, no matter what, we must establish an economic foundation.” He told me to think seriously about what kind of business would be good to pursue.

While I was worrying about whether there might be some good business opportunity, I met a man I knew named Kim Dong-gi and discussed it with him.
Then he said, “I entered into a contract jointly with a friend to supply straw rope to the Monopoly Bureau, but we have fallen short of funds and are unable to deliver the remaining quantity under the contract. If this continues, we won’t be able to receive the payment…” He went on to say that it would be fine to entrust the remaining delivery to me.

I was delighted and relayed this story to Teacher Moon.

Teacher Moon promptly raised capital amounting to 37,000 won by disposing of precious metals and the like that the female members had offered. With that money, I went to Heunghae in Samcheonpo, where straw rope was produced, bought straw rope, and delivered it to the warehouse of the Busan Monopoly Bureau, receiving delivery receipts. That became my daily work. I stayed in rural areas for several days at a time, buying up straw rope, loading it onto freight trucks for transport, and at times transporting it by boat from Samcheonpo as well.

Starting around June 20, I began the work, visiting farming households that produced straw rope and steadily filling almost all of the remaining contract quantity.

A Major disturbance by Mrs Choi Seon-chil (the church leader’s legal wife)

▲ Choi Seon-gil (at the time Sun Myung Moon’s legal wife)

Then one day, Elder Lee Bong-un suddenly came to Samcheonpo without prior notice. The elder said, “A major incident has occurred at the Sujeong-dong church.”
Mrs. Choi Seon-gil caused a major disturbance after seeing Teacher Sun Myung Moon conducting restoration pikareum sex rites with the female members, driving all the members out.

She then sold off the Sujeong-dong church together with all the household goods, so the church disappeared and gatherings could no longer be held. “Let us return as quickly as possible.”

So I hurriedly went around various places, procured the remaining contracted quantity of straw rope, and completed the delivery procedures to the Monopoly Bureau. When I calculated the contract terms, the purchase price of the straw rope, and the expenses, I realized that a profit of 30,000 won remained.

After finishing the work and returning to Busan, I learned that Teacher Moon had fled, as if escaping from Choi Seon-gil, taking the main members with him to Seoul on September 17, and that Won-pil had also fled to Yeongdo (a village on the outskirts of Busan, the home of a devoted member, which served as a base for evangelism).

Elder Lee Bong-un bought a shanty house in Daeji Park and moved there, holding temporary worship services at that location. At the Sujeong-dong church, someone else had already moved in to live. Because of Choi Seon-gil’s major disturbance, the Sujeong-dong church in Busan had absurdly been wiped out. With no other option, I stayed one night at an inn and the next day went to Seoul.

After asking the members in Seoul, I visited Teacher Moon in Cheongjin-dong, and he welcomed me warmly. Without distinguishing right or wrong, I reported the results of the straw-rope delivery and explained that if I went to Busan the next day to receive the delivery receipts, the Monopoly Bureau would pay the money, and that the profit would be about 30,000 won.

At that time, the people staying with Teacher Moon in Cheongjin-dong were Ok Se-hyun, Shin Jeong-sun (an alias)*, Yang Yun-shin, Oh Yeong-choon, Kim Soon-cheol, Choi Soon-hwa, and others, about seven or eight people in total, all of them female members.

The next day I took the train, received the delivery receipts at the Busan Monopoly Bureau branch, then took the train back again and returned to Seoul.
I had sent a telegram saying that I would arrive at noon, so I went straight to the Cheongjin-dong house, but Teacher Moon and the female members had all gone somewhere and were not there, so their whereabouts could not be known.

Instead, Choi Seon-gil was sitting there alone, packing her belongings in order to sell off all the household goods.

❖ Three photos with captions added. The photos are from the Korean edition of this book, and were taken by Eu Hyo-min. He explained the story behind the photos.

▲ Choi Seon-gil caught Moon doing a pikareum sex ritual with two followers. She went home and got the baseball bat which Moon kept there. She damaged the Cheongpa-dong church building in Seoul and broke the HSA-UWC church signboard.

▲ Choi Seon-gil fought Moon because she could not accept his pikareum sex rituals which went against her strongly held Presbyterian beliefs. Moon had been excommunicated from the Presbyterian Church in 1948. At that time he was jailed for bigamy with Kim Chong-hwa (a married woman with three children) while he was still married to Choi Seon-gil. She eventually divorced him on January 8, 1957.

▲ Sun Myung Moon liked to keep a baseball bat or a heavy wooden stick ready, as seen above in this photo from the mid 1960s.

The testimonies of Moon’s first wife, Mrs. Choi Seon-gil, and Pastor Kim Deok-jin who wrote 19 of the church ‘Holy Songs’. Published in the Japanese magazine,
週刊ポスト Shūkan Post “Weekly Post” October 8, 1993

After seeing the telegram I had sent to Teacher Moon, she thought that if it were me, I would know where Teacher Moon was staying, and so she was waiting for me.
Among the household goods were Teacher Moon’s Bible and hymnbook, and astonishingly, even the original manuscript of the Principle written down by Kim Won-pil. I desperately begged Mrs. Choi: “If I look for him, I will surely be able to find where Teacher is, and once I know, I will certainly connect you. Please at least leave the Bible and the original Principle manuscript with me.” Mrs. Choi handed those documents to me, so I was able to take them back. If I had not recovered the original Principle manuscript at that time, I think it would later have caused considerable difficulty in organizing the Explanation of the Principle.

After that, I met Ok Se-hyun, Shin Jeong-sun, and others, but they too did not know where Teacher Moon was. Rather, they had been waiting for me to return to Seoul, thinking that if they asked me, I would know.

Later I came to know that, borrowing the pretext of Sun Myung Moon’s so-called “restoration rituals,” Mrs. Choi Seon-gil, enraged by the tangled chaos of rampant sexual intercourse that overflowed before her eyes, caused a major disturbance at the Sujeong-dong church, beating and driving out the female members.
Frightened, Sun Myung Moon fled with the women to Seoul, rented a secluded house in Cheongjin-dong, and lived there together with them.

However, even that was exposed to Mrs. Choi after barely one week. Just before I returned from the Busan Monopoly Office branch, Sun Myung Moon, thrown into utter panic, scattered the women in all directions and, leaving behind even the first draft of the original Principle manuscript that he valued more than his own life, fled from Mrs. Choi.

To be surrounded by female members, so to speak, means a noisy “women’s kingdom.”

This is because the female members surrounding Sun Myung Moon, if they offered their bodies according to the Principle of Restoration, would fall short of the stages of formation, growth, completion, and restoration.

At that time, as someone who revered Sun Myung Moon as a teacher and fanatically believed in that principle, I sometimes even witnessed the actual scenes of sexual intercourse that were the real sites of restoration, and I directly saw the madness and hysterical frenzy of the female members that did not accord with proper ritual.
Even so, I interpreted all of it as a mission belonging to the Messiah.

On the other hand, no matter how much I thought about it, what I could not understand was why he repeatedly fled from Mrs. Choi as if his tail were on fire.

If he were truly the Messiah, it would be better if he acted confidently even in front of his own wife. How could he possibly save the world when he could not even convert a single wife? Such doubts newly arose in my mind.

And another thing is also true: I came to harbor suspicion of inconsistency between words and actions toward Sun Myung Moon, who threw away and ran off without even taking the original Principle manuscript, which was so precious and indispensable for evangelism.

Sun Myung Moon, who fled from Cheongjin-dong, then lived together with women in yet another place, and that in turn developed into an entirely unexpected incident.

Electric shock torture at a Police Station

That day, I decided to stay overnight at an inn in Cheonggyecheon. Just as I was about to fall asleep, there was a knocking sound at the door outside, so I went out, and someone said, “Is a person named Pak Chung-hwa staying in this room?”
When I said, “I am Pak Chung-hwa,” he said he was a detective from the Jongno Police Station, presented his identification, and said there were things he wanted to ask, so let us go together to the police station. It was so sudden that I did not understand what was happening, but I had no choice except to follow.

At the police station, I was interrogated. I do not know from whom they had heard it, but they said, “You will know everything.”

They said, “Where is Sun Myung Moon now? Tell us the truth.” But since I did not know, I could only say, “I don’t know.”

There were questions from this side and that side, but when I answered, “I really don’t know,” the detective said, “Then we’ll make you know,” and brought a battery.
Then they fastened the two electric wires connected to the battery onto the thumbs of both my hands and began turning the handle.

A strange pain spread throughout my entire body, and I could not possibly endure it. “Even so, will you still say you don’t know!” they shouted as they turned it harder and harder. My whole body tingled and convulsed, and it felt as if my body were no longer my own. They would turn the handle, then stop, then turn it again, hurling curses, sometimes speaking in a sly voice, and so on, tormenting me maliciously for nearly three hours. I shouted loudly, “If you’re going to kill me, then kill me. What I don’t know, I simply don’t know!”

Then someone who seemed to be of higher rank came out from the next room and said, “Listening to your way of speaking, you seem like someone from Pyongyang. Is that so?” When I answered, “That’s right,” he said, “I too am from Pyongyang. After the turmoil ended, I came south and am now working at a police station. Beating someone like this doesn’t necessarily make an interrogation work, does it? This person doesn’t seem to be lying.” He told his subordinates to release me, and the torture was stopped.

After being interrogated until morning, I was finally released only after nine o’clock in the morning.

A test concerning the will of heaven

After leaving the police station, I ate a bitter breakfast and then went to find Aum Deok-mun, going to a three-story building next to the YMCA. At that time, he was running an architectural design office there. He was very glad that I had come to Seoul and drew a map, explaining in detail where Sun Myung Moon was staying.

After finishing my business with the Monopoly Bureau, I intended to go meet Sun Myung Moon that evening. However, I was held back by female members such as Ok Se-hyun, who said they wanted to go together with me to see Sun Myung Moon. Since the police were also searching, I said that it was absolutely impossible at the moment and tried in every way to persuade them, but they would not listen.

Just at that moment, a sudden heavy downpour began. While the women were running about in confusion, I jumped onto a bus. I had heard that if one got off at Anyang and went about one kilometer, there was a small house on the roadside on a south-facing slope, so I was able to find it right away. When I entered the house, Sun Myung Moon and Kim Soon-cheol were together and welcomed me very warmly. First, I briefly reported the progress of the Monopoly Bureau-related business and the police incident that had occurred the previous day.

After that, Sun Myung Moon told me to take a test concerning the revelation of heaven that Kim Soon-cheol had prepared. I read the questions and wrote my answers, and Sun Myung Moon said, “Good, you pass.” He added that Aum Deok-mun had also taken the test the previous day and had passed, so he was spiritually God’s eldest son, and since Chung-hwa had passed next, he was the second son. At that time, Lee Cheol-soon was in the middle of making quilts as a revelation from the spirit world. Cotton was spread all over the room, and it was a great task to clear it away before sleeping. (Described later)

The enraged husband of Kim Soon-cheol

▲ Moon and Kim Soon-cheol (right)

I stayed there for two days and then returned to Seoul. In Seoul, Kim Soon-cheol’s husband was searching everywhere for Sun Myung Moon, his eyes blazing with fury. It was dangerous to remain in the house as things were, so the next day Sun Myung Moon, Kim Soon-cheol, and I set out together for Busan.

Because there were many watching eyes, we had to be careful. Since we could not buy direct tickets to Busan, we first went from Anyang to Suwon and stayed one night, then stayed one night each in Daejeon, Daegu, and Masan, finally arriving in Busan after five days. The three of us stayed for a while at the Geoje Inn in Seomyeon.

Two days later, taking great pains so as not to let anyone know, we came all the way to Busan, but somehow they found out and tracked us down, and in the end we were exposed. A woman member named Kim An-mi came all the way to the inn. She was one of the “Six Marys” (married women restored by Sun Myung Moon through pikareum sex rites, described later). She said that she was resentful that Teacher Moon had taken only Kim Soon-cheol, who later became one of the Six Marys, and fled toward Busan, and that she had chased us here as if to seize him. Kim An-mi and Kim Soon-cheol began to quarrel with each other. Their struggle over spiritual status made the fight between the women even more troublesome. Simply put, it was flames of jealousy.

I called Kim An-mi aside and explained Teacher Moon’s situation. I said that Teacher was currently in a very complicated situation, and that if any opening or opportunity appeared, troublemakers were ready at any time to make accusations; if that happened, it would become an obstacle to the plans Teacher was trying to carry out. Since Teacher seemed likely to remain in Busan like this for a while, I earnestly pleaded that it would be best, for now, to keep things quiet. Kim An-mi, still angry, returned to her home.

We stayed in Busan for five days and then returned to Seoul. This time, through the efforts of Oh Yeong-choon, we borrowed a relative’s house and came to live with Teacher Moon in a certain house in Jungtaek, Sindang-dong. Kim Soon-cheol returned to her own home, but was beaten by her enraged husband and suffered a fracture in her leg, for which she was hospitalized at Paik Inje Hospital.

Teacher Moon, Oh Yeong-choon, and I went together to the hospital to visit her, but I had an inexplicable sense of unease, so we decided to leave again and turned back immediately. Later, according to Oh Yeong-choon, as soon as Teacher Moon and I left the hospital, Kim Soon-cheol’s husband came in and pressed them, saying, “Weren’t the men who just left Sun Myung Moon and Pak Chung-hwa?” causing a great deal of trouble as they tried to make evasive excuses.

If, at that time, the husband had encountered Teacher Moon, there is no doubt that a major incident would have occurred. Even so, problems involving women surrounding Teacher Moon were breaking out here and there, to the point where I myself was at my wit’s end and could only throw up my hands.

Using the “principle of restoration” as a pretext, whether married women or virgins, the women who came into view soon ended up entering into sexual relations with Teacher Moon.

When that happened, it was only natural that the husbands or parents would become enraged. In one case, he even had relations with three people at once: a mother and her two daughters. [Most probably Lee Duk-sam, Choi Soon-shil and Choi Soon-wha – this story was well-known in the church. The “sam” of the mother’s name means three and Moon used that fact to manipulate the mother.] That it did not turn into a major scandal might be called, in a sense, God’s protection. Everything that happened at the house in Cheongjin-dong during this period was like this. After Sun Myung Moon, who had been in Busan, fled back to Seoul, his legal wife, Choi Seon-gil, set out to find where her husband was and came looking for him in Cheongjin-dong.

In Busan, Choi Seon-gil had driven out all the church members and kept Sun Myung Moon under such strict surveillance that he could not go out freely, even closely monitoring him when he went to the toilet. At that time, Kim Won-deok, a disciple from the days when Sun Myung Moon had been in Heungnam Prison, came to see him. Seeing this situation, he apparently became angry and said that such things should not be done to Seong-jin’s mother and legal wife, Choi Seon-gil, and pulled Sun Myung Moon out. That Choi Seon-gil listened frankly to what Kim Won-deok said was because Kim Won-deok was an active-duty police officer working at the National Police Bureau at the time, and there had been a precedent whereby, if Sun Myung Moon was taken in for any reason, he would be immediately released.

However, Mrs. Choi, who could not easily trust her husband and had chased him all the way to Seoul, thought that if I was staying at the Cheongjin-dong house she would be able to learn Sun Myung Moon’s whereabouts, so she had organized her household belongings and was waiting for me. She was waiting with the intention of following me.

But immediately after fleeing from the Cheongjin-dong house, Sun Myung Moon went with Kim Soon-cheol to an inn in front of Seoul Station and, under the name of a “spiritual ceremony,” carried out a restoration pikareum sex ritual with the virgin Choi Soon-hwa. In short, the three of them there did not perform a spiritual ceremony, but rather a physical one, that is, sexual intercourse. Strictly speaking, a restoration ceremony must be witnessed by another member standing nearby.

[Because Eve had sex while hiding from God, according to Moon, restoration of that secret crime should be done with a witness. One 36 Blessed Couple wife said what made Moon most happy was watching a couple have sex.]

On that day, Kim Soon-cheol cooperated as the witness. Since Choi Soon-hwa was a virgin, the procedure involved holding the “Marriage Supper of the Lamb” (Revelation 21:9), and she thought of it, so to speak, as being formally married and becoming Sun Myung Moon’s wife.

In fact, at that time Kim Soon-cheol even presented Choi Soon-hwa with an expensive gold ring, saying, “to the future mother.” This is something I heard directly from Sun Myung Moon himself, who was the person involved, so it is without any doubt.

The Meeting in Yeongdo, Busan (謄島)

The tragedy of the female college student, Kim Myung-hee

Around that time, with Daegu as our base, I was traveling around various places together with Teacher Moon in order to give lectures on the Principle to members here and there. Also, at Teacher Moon’s direction, I went to Busan or Seoul to convey Teacher Moon’s words to the members. In those days, train travel was still extremely difficult. It took a full 12 hours to go from Seoul to Busan. From Chupungnyeong to Daegu, for military reasons all the lights inside the train cars were turned off, so it was pitch-dark.

When it became late at night, even the heating was turned off, and since most of the window glass was broken, it was extremely cold in winter. From the windows without glass, the smoke and smell of coal used as fuel seeped in, and when entering tunnels it felt as though one might suffocate.

One day when I was together with Teacher Moon in Seoul, Elder Lee Bong-un of Busan said, “Many people are waiting and rooms are prepared for those who wish to hear Teacher’s lectures in Busan. Please somehow come to Busan.” However, we were in a difficult situation because we had no travel expenses to get to Busan. At just that time, Deaconess Oh Yeong-choon came. She provided the travel expenses, and that night, together with Teacher Moon, we arrived in Busan at 8 a.m. the next morning.

About ten members, led by Elder Lee Bong-un, came out to greet us. Since Teacher Moon had come all the way to Busan, everyone was pleased and greeted him, and afterward we took a taxi to Yeongdo in the city. That day was December 24, 1953. [confirmed in a testimony by Kim Won-pil.]

The place we were led to was a poorly built house, but it had a relatively spacious room, and it was well arranged, showing the sincerity of the members. The owner of this house was a person named Shin Seong-muk, who was married to Eu Shin-hee.

▲ The shantytown in Yeongdo 影島, Busan (1951)

After breakfast, Teacher Moon began lecturing on the Principle as usual. A person named Eu Hyo-won, whose hip joint had become rigid due to tuberculous ankylosis. He was unable to sit and was therefore listening to the lecture while lying down. This person seemed to have a very sensitive temperament, and if someone coughed nearby, he would even try to stop it with a look on his face.

[Tuberculous ankylosis is the fusion and rigid stiffening of a joint (often the spine, hip, or knee) caused by chronic destruction from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, resulting in severe loss of motion. It typically manifests as chronic joint pain, stiffness, deformity, and functional limitation, often appearing years after the initial infection.]

About twenty-eight people were listening to the lecture, and the room was extremely quiet, with a solemn atmosphere. Except for mealtimes, the lectures continued without even rest breaks until one or two o’clock in the middle of the night. Even so, the attitude of the listeners did not waver from beginning to end. Those who came to hear the lecture for the first time that day were Eu Hyo-won, his brother Eu Hyo-young, Shin Seong-muk and his wife Eu Shin-hee, Kim Gwan-seong, Deacon Cha, and others.

The members were Shin Jeong-sun (alias), Ok Se-hyun, Lee Gi-hwan, Chi Seung-do [from North Korea], Yang Yun-shin, Oh Yeong-choon, Elder Lee Bong-un, and their families. And there was also one more person participating for the first time: a female college student named Kim Myung-hee. She was the niece of the church member Yang Yun-shin and a student at Yonsei University in Seoul. Because she had excellent grades and a promising future, it seemed that she was even favored by the university president.

▲ Kim Myung-hee

And when President Underwood returned to his home country, he presented her with one year’s worth of tuition. Thinking that it would be dangerous for her to keep such a large sum of money herself, she entrusted the entire amount to her aunt, Yang Yun-shin. However, since Yang Yun-shin’s economic circumstances, as well as those of the members, were extremely dire, she ended up offering it all to Teacher Moon for the church.

When the school term began and Kim Young-hee learned that all the money had been spent, she became angry. Therefore, with the intention of protesting after seeing what kind of church her aunt attended, what it taught, and what kind of person Teacher was, she did not move an inch from morning until night and listened to Teacher Moon’s lectures.

When the meeting closed late at night, most of the participants returned to their respective lodgings. In the single-room of that house, Teacher Moon, two men, and five women—Ok Se-hyun, Shin Jeong-sun, Oh Yeong-choon, Yang Yun-shin, and Kim Myung-hee—slept together.

This was the first night of the Busan Yeongdo assembly.

In fact, I reveal this here for the first time, but on that night Kim Young-hee had sexual intercourse with Sun Myung Moon.

At the innermost part of the room lay Sun Myung Moon, next to him myself, and then the six women lay down in the order in which their names have been listed.
I was exhausted but could not easily fall asleep, and then at some point I did fall asleep, when a strange sensation made me open my eyes. From the place where Sun Myung Moon was lying next to me, I heard the sound of a woman’s voice that sounded like screaming or gasping.

However, that sound came from Kim Young-hee, who was lying at the far end on the opposite side. I had witnessed Sun Myung Moon’s sexual intercourse many times, but this truly shocked me.

Whether she, having been persuaded by the principle of restoration, initiated it herself, or whether Sun Myung Moon secretly called her, I do not know, but at the very least it is certain that this was not some kind of restoration ritual. However, given my weak position, there was nothing I could do except pretend to be asleep next to what was happening.

Among the other five women, one was a “Mary”, and the other four already had pikareum relations with Sun Myung Moon, but the details of that will be described later.

After that, Kim Young-hee became pregnant with Sun Myung Moon’s child and thus began a truly miserable first step in her life.

❖ Photo added:

▲ Kim Myung-hee

Without moving an inch, Kim Myung-hee patiently listened to Mr Moon’s lectures from morning to night. She wanted to find out what kind of church it was that her aunt had joined. She wanted to protest after hearing the teachings of this Mr Moon and seeing what kind of person he was.

At midnight the meeting was adjourned and most of the participants returned to their respective lodgings. The rest of us ended up sleeping together in one room in the house. There were two men, Mr. Moon and myself, and six women: Ok Se-hyun, Lee Deuk-sam, Oh Yeong-choon, Yang Yun-shin, Chi Seung-do and Kim Myung-hee. This was the first night of the meeting at Yeongdo in Busan.

To tell the truth, Sun Myung Moon had sex with Kim Myung-hee on this night. I am revealing it here for the first time.

Sun Myung Moon was lying down at the very end of the room, and I was next to him. The six women were next in the order that I have named them. I did not fall asleep straight away although I was tired – then I drifted off to sleep. However, I then woke up because of something strange.

From the place where Sun Myung Moon was sleeping next to me, I heard a woman’s voice that sounded something like a scream or panting. Moreover, it was Kim Myung-hee who should have been asleep at the other end of the room. I have witnessed Sun Myung Moon having sex many times, but I was really surprised at this. I do not know if she was motivated by the Principles of Restoration, or if Sun Myung Moon had secretly called her, but without any doubt this was not a pikareum restoration ritual.

However, being right beside their activity, I had no choice but to pretend to be asleep because I was in a vulnerable position [in the organization].

Of the other five women, one was a Mary. The other four had already had a relationship with Sun Myung Moon. I will describe more about that later.

Also, after that, Kim Myung-hee became pregnant with Sun Myung Moon’s child, and led a really miserable life.

Kim Myung-hee – Sun Myung Moon’s third wife

The lie that Kim Myung-hee was raped in Japan

Days of Being Pursued by the Investigative Authorities

The next day as well, Teacher gave the same lectures, and Eu Hyo-won listened attentively while taking notes. Kim Gwan-seong, who had a beard and introduced himself as a practitioner of traditional Korean medicine, was also listening earnestly. The homeowner, Shin Seong-muk, too, was absorbed in the lectures.

His wife, Eu Shin-hee, was also listening diligently, and later she went to Seoul and received pikareum restoration from Teacher Moon. After about three weeks had passed, the members were repeatedly listening to Teacher Moon’s lectures, and when they sang hymns and prayed they seemed like different people, so filled with the Holy Spirit that they would cry loudly. In this house, whenever people gathered they cried and shouted from morning until evening, and soon the voices of criticism from nearby residents grew louder. There were even rumors that, because there were strange people there, requests had been made to investigative authorities to look into the matter.

Not only that, but among the family members of believers from Pyongyang there was someone who had come south and was working in a prosecutorial agency, and there were movements to trap Teacher whenever there was an opportunity, so it was decided to suspend the Busan Yeongdo assembly.

In fact, around this time, wherever we went, days continued as if we were being pursued by someone. Teacher Moon and I went around from place to place, encouraging members and their families who were in distress, but even if we managed to obtain a place to stay, after about a week rumors would spread about where Sun Myung Moon was, and situations repeatedly arose in which people from investigative authorities would come to conduct inquiries.

The reason was that Sun Myung Moon had previously served a sentence in North Korea for the crime of disrupting social order, and there was suspicion that even after coming south he had not reformed and was the same committing crimes that destroyed families. Because of this, family members of believers who had been in the North and had come south, including those who had joined the investigative authorities, were following him around, combining it with a sense of retaliation.

The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity

Eu Hyo-won Writes the Explanation of the Principle

Around February 1954, Teacher Moon, who was in Daegu, said to me that it was necessary to lay the foundation for the Seoul church. Therefore, he told me to go to Busan, take Eu Hyo-won with me, and go ahead to Seoul first, while he himself would go directly to Busan. I went to Busan right away and conveyed Teacher Moon’s words to Eu Hyo-won. He agreed gladly. Since Eu Hyo-won was physically impaired, he was worried about riding the train all night, but Yang Yun-shin said that she herself would accompany Eu Hyo-won to Seoul, and so she went along with him.

That night train journey was a 12-hour trip, but Eu Hyo-won showed no sign of fatigue at all; moreover, he rode the train with an expression full of hope.

Eu Hyo-won had been a student in the medical department of Keijō Imperial University (present-day Seoul National University) during the Japanese colonial period, but due to illness he was forced to drop out. He was an extremely intelligent person, and I was firmly convinced that this man, of all people, would surely accomplish great work for Teacher Moon in the future.

After coming up to Seoul, I immediately visited Lee Chang-hwan, who welcomed me warmly. Eu Hyo-won and Eu Hyo-min also happened to be there, and together we went to the house of Lee Chang-hwan’s brother-in-law in Jongno. From that day, we began preparations with the goal of publishing the Explanation of the Principle. The procedure was as follows: we laid out in order the original Principle manuscript that Kim Won-pil had transcribed, then Eu Hyo-min and I revised it, and Eu Hyo-won interpreted, organized, and structured it, thereby writing the Explanation of the Principle. If, a month earlier, Choi Seon-gil had succeeded in taking back the original Principle manuscript at the Cheongjin-dong house, this work would have become extremely difficult.

▲ Leaders in Daegu on Moon’s birthday on February 9, 1954.
(Front row) From left: Kim Gwan-seong, Lee Yo-han, Sun Myung Moon, the author [Pak Chung-hwa], and Eu Hyo-min
(Back row) From left: Eu Hyo-won, Kang So-ryeong, Lee Han-seo, Lee Bong-un, Shin Seong-muk (the husband of Eu Shin-hee)

▲ Female followers in Daegu

For meals, we ate at a popular restaurant run by Lee Chang-hwan’s older brother in Dongdaemun, and while staying at an inn in Jongno, we continued our work for about ten days. We were able to endure any hardship, but for some reason the innkeeper and the restaurant owner seemed to dislike us.

I went to see Teacher Moon in Daegu and reported the situation. He gave me 50,000 won and said that it would be good if, together with Yang Yun-shin who had gone to Busan, we would secure a room and continue the work we were doing with Eu Hyo-won. I immediately returned to Seoul, rented a room in Bukhak-dong, Seongdong-gu, and made it our base for the time being.

The members who were living and eating together there were three people: myself, Eu Hyo-won, and Eu Hyo-min. Lee Chang-hwan came every day, and female members such as Shin Jeong-sun, Oh Yeong-choon, Yang Yun-shin, Ok Se-hyun, and Lee Gi-hwan also came daily and cooperated in various tasks.

Then one day, Teacher Moon suddenly came up to Seoul from Daegu.

That very night, six or seven men who said they were from the Seoul Metropolitan Police showed their identification cards and told us to come with them to police headquarters.

Everyone who was there was taken in, but we were not subjected to any particular interrogation; they only asked about general religious matters. While this was going on, the curfew hour arrived, so we ended up sleeping at police headquarters that night and returned home in the morning. It was an incident of being taken in without any discernible reason.

After returning home, I went with Yang Yun-shin to buy various household items. As we shopped together like this, she seemed like an ideal spouse. However, Mrs. Yang was much younger than I was. Life ought to be long, yet she ended up dying before me a few years later. It seems that no one can know a person’s fate. After she joined our church, many things happened, but she was someone who made great efforts to receive restoration.

As the number of members gradually increased, it became difficult for everyone to live and work together in the room we had been using up to then. So we moved to a large house in the same Bukhak-dong area that had three separate doors.

Teacher Moon rented a separate room on the southern side of that house. With many members gathering, Lee Su-gyeong, Kim Sang-cheol, and Lee Chang-hwan, who had been in Busan, were also there together. Around this time, Eu Hyo-won’s younger brother, Hyo-young, who had been catching croaker fish, brought a sack of croaker that were like gold, and the members had a hearty feast. There is also one unforgettable incident. A certain politician brought one of his daughters, who had somewhat limited intelligence, to our church. It was probably because he hoped that if he left her with this church for a while, she might get better. The child, who was eight years old, would invariably defecate whenever she was eating, which caused everyone great trouble.

Even so, thinking that perhaps a miracle might occur if she received prayers together with us, we too tried hard to endure it patiently.

However, even after a year had passed, her condition did not change in the slightest, and in the end her parents took their child away. Around this time, Lee Su-gyeong went out to work to support the living expenses of our members and earned money by doing work coloring photographs. Lee Chang-hwan also wrote the church’s evangelistic message in English and sent it to about a hundred prominent figures in various countries around the world, especially well-known pastors.

The content was as follows: The Lord of the Second Coming has appeared in the Eastern country. Let us worship him. Those who doubt should try listening through prayer. And at the end of the text, Lee Chang-hwan attached his own photograph and sent it.

Because of this work, we were busy from morning until evening. Eu Hyo-won was absorbed every day in writing the Explanation of the Principle, and Eu Hyo-min and I were continuously copying out the original Principle manuscript. At one point, Eu Hyo-won said to me, “This Principle is full of contradictions, and there are parts I don’t understand. This won’t do.” When the two of us thoroughly questioned Sun Myung Moon, he could not give any answers. Shaking his head and saying that there was no choice but to leave what came afterward to heaven, Eu Hyo-won wrote it in his own way.

Around this time, Kim Sang-cheol [aka David SC Kim] was going to study abroad at a university in England, and when he asked me to write documents for his passport application, I did so. There was also an elderly woman named Kim Jae-geun (called “the Daegu grandmother”). She had come from Daegu to Seoul and, even in the middle of winter, went every day to the well to draw cold water. Because she was elderly, we worried that she might fall ill, but she was very healthy and endured it diligently.

Around this time in Busan, a man named Song Do-uk, who was said to have engaged in independence activities in Manchuria, joined the church. Kim Won-pil, who was evading military service, rented a room on the second floor of Song Do-uk’s house in Yeongdo and was living a secluded life there.

At that time there were not many members in Busan, but in Seoul during the daytime there were female members such as Shin Jeong-sun, Oh Yeong-choon, Yang Yun-shin, Kim Soon-cheol, and Kim In-ju. In addition, a widow named Lim Young-shin newly joined through the evangelism of Eu Hyo-min. She had a young daughter, whom she asked to have raised at Song Do-uk’s house in Busan. Lim Young-shin was helping with the preparation of meals for the members.

At that time, covering the members’ living expenses was a major issue. Eu Hyo-min originally worked in photography and was skilled at it, so he came up with the idea of traveling around the city and the provinces, photographing various historical sites in different places, turning them into bromide prints, and selling them. When we tried it, at once they sold better than expected, so we devoted all our efforts to producing bromide prints.

I was in charge of giving the photographs a glossy finish and worked on it until late at night. Lim Young-shin also, as soon as she finished the kitchen work, devoted herself to washing photographs. The members joined forces to produce bromide prints in large quantities. This work succeeded, and all at once we gained financial leeway, making it possible to cover all of the members’ living expenses.

The Day of the Founding of the Unification Church

▲ (Front row) From left: the author [Pak Chung-hwa], Sun Myung Moon, Baek Un-hak (physiognomist), Kim Won-deok, Eu Hyo-won
(Back row) From left: Kim Sang-cheol, Lee Yo-han, Lee Chang-hwan (photograph from the time, May 1954)

On May 3, 1954, at the church located at 391 Bukhak-dong, Seongdong-gu, five people—Lee Chang-hwan, Eu Hyo-won, Kim Sang-cheol, Pak Chung-hwa, and Eu Hyo-min—were gathered around Teacher Moon at the center. At last, the day came to begin the work of propagating the Principle throughout the world with Teacher Moon at the center.

As we discussed what name would be appropriate, we first decided to attach the heading “World Christian Unification,” in keeping with the purpose of unifying Christianity worldwide. Then there was discussion over whether the following part should be “Spiritual Association” or “Holy Spirit Association,” but I insisted that it should be “Holy Spirit Association,” and in the end it was decided as “Holy Spirit Association.”

Thus, a religious organization that sought to unify Christianity throughout the world by putting forward the Principle, the “Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity” (世界基督敎統一神靈協會), was founded in this world for the first time. After various discussions, Lee Chang-hwan was appointed as the first president of the association. However, three months later he withdrew.

(Later on, May 1st became Foundation Day, but in fact it was May 3rd.)

Around the Time of the Ewha Womans University Incident

Students and professors were coming in droves

❖ Photo added:

▲ Pak Chung-hwa named Yoo Kyoung-ok and Hwang Hwan-chae on the back of the photo. The Ewha Womans University campus is behind them. This photo was probably taken in the spring of 1955.

It was around this time that Yang Yun-yeong, a music professor at Ewha Womans University, a prestigious women’s university in Seoul, joined the church. She listened to Mr. Moon’s lectures for three days. Then a miracle occurred, and, filled with the Holy Spirit, she suddenly began shouting loudly, kicking with her feet and smashing through what she said had been walls blocked by Satan until then, causing a great disturbance.

❖ Photo added:

▲ Yang Yun-yeong in about 1955 (1910-1998)

After that, at the home of Mrs. Yang Yun-yeong in Sindang-dong, Eu Hyo-won lectured on the Explanation of the Principle every day. Next, Han Chung-hwa, the dormitory supervisor of Ewha Womans University, joined the church. Also, professors Choi Won-pok and Kim Young-oon of the English Department at the same university, Professor Park Sang-rae of Yonsei University, and students Yoo Kyung-gyu, Hwang Hwan-chae, and Oh Seung-taek also joined the church.

❖ Photo added:

▲ Moon with Choi Soon-wha 催淳華 at her graduation.

▲ Sun Myung Moon with students of Ewha Womans University.

❖ Added information:
This book was printed four times in the first month after publication. Some photos and captions were changed across the different editions.

The older sister of Choi Soon-wha was Choi Soon-shil who went to Yonsei University. Soon-shil was arrested on July 18, 1955 during the Ewha sex scandal investigation; Moon had been arrested on July 4. Because Soon-shil was young, under questioning by the police she “confessed to group sex activities.” Her wealthy father, Choi Seong-mo, arranged for her release from jail. He always tried to help his daughters in spite of their involvement with Moon. And he had hope that his wife, Lee Deuk-sam, would return to him – but she never did.

▲ Choi Seong-mo

However, at the end of her life Lee Deuk-sam did realize the truth about Moon and became a Christian, hoping for forgiveness for her involvement with Moon and for what had happened to her two daughters. She had misgivings about Moon’s pikareum sex with her daughters. Her eldest son was Choi Soon-yeong. He gave an interview to a Japanese magazine. LINK

“Soon-yeong and his wife were at the hospital bed of his mother, Lee Deuk-sam. One day, three officials of the Unification Church came and put a tape recorder in front of the dying patient. They wanted her to leave a will saying she desired to have her funeral at the Unification Church. They even wanted her to talk about inheritance, persisting for several hours. Lee Deuk-sam remained silent.
“They were in my mother’s room, located at the furthest end of the ground floor. They put a recording machine right in the center of the room. We found it unbearable and eventually said to them, “She is our mother, not yours,” and I threw them out.” The Unification Church did not get her inheritance.

❖ conclusion of added information.

Among the members who came from Busan to Seoul was a woman named Eu Shin-hee. She was the wife of Shin Seong-muk, who had lent his house at the time of the Yeongdo assembly. One night, she went to the room of Mr. Moon, who was living in a rented room next to the church. When she knocked on the door, he quietly asked who it was. When she answered, “It’s Shin-hee,” he told her to come in, and she went inside. And it was said that, right there, she received the practice of pikareum sex ritual restoration.

At this time, Kim In-ju, who had already received restoration, tipped her off about pikareum restoration. Eu Shin-hee, having been encouraged by Kim In-ju, was said to have mustered up the courage and received restoration. After this, Eu Shin-hee carried out pikareum restoration with several male members. I, too, in fact, was one of the people who carried out restoration with Eu Shin-hee. She then carried out restoration with Kim Deok-jin, who appears immediately afterward, and furthermore Kim Deok-jin carried out restoration with another woman, and that woman again…… all of a sudden it became a chain of more than seventy people. Later, Kim Deok-jin, who became a pastor, declared that he would expose the utterly chaotic sexual practices of the Unification Church himself and publish them in a book, which caused a great commotion.
(described further later)

A man called Kim Deok-jin

Around that time, I was doing work to give the photographs a glossy finish every night until about 10 p.m. One night, a young man wearing a black UN military coat came and said he wanted to meet Teacher. When I asked who he was and where he came from, he said his name was Kim Deok-jin, that he was a graduate of the humanities department of Soongsil Junior College in the North, and that he had been tried by military court on charges of espionage and had faced a demand for the death penalty, but that the verdict had been life imprisonment. While serving his sentence, he had been found not guilty at a retrial and had just been released from the Dongchon Army Prison in the South. He also had with him a letter written “To Father,” which a man named Lee Seok-bin, whom he had met in prison, asked him to deliver to Teacher Moon.

I guided him to the home of Yang Yun-yeong, where Teacher Moon was staying. Kim Deok-jin had musical talent and could compose music and write lyrics. As soon as he joined the church, he immediately began composing and writing lyrics for Holy Songs (hymns), so Teacher Moon praised his musical talent, and among the members he received the honor of being the first to be given a suit to wear by Teacher Moon.

❖ Photo added:

▲ Kim Deok-jin walking behind Moon.

The number of members also increased: Kim Chan-gyun, Jeong Rin-jeong, Ahn Chang-seong, Kang Jeong-won, Cha Man-chun, Lee So-dam, Yoo Gwang-ryeol, Lee Jin-tae, Park Seung-gyu, Lee Wol-seong, Kim Won-min, Hwang Eun-ja, Chi Saeng-yeon, Yoo Dong-hoe, and others.

Those who joined afterward were Chi Won-dae, Ahn Jeong-guk, Kim Sun-hwa, Shin Mi-shik, Cheong Dae-hwa, Kim Ju-hwa, Lee Gwan-seon, Lee Gi-seok, Park Bong-ae, Namgung Cheol, Lee Young-il, Choi Jeong-sun, Lee In-bok, Kim Hwa-young, Kim Jeong-eun, Sa Gil-ja, Park Young-sook, Seo Myeong-jin, Lee Jeong-ho, Kim Young-hwi, and others.

Following the professors, many students of Ewha Womans University were also joining the church, but on the grounds of heterodox belief, fourteen people received disciplinary expulsion from the university. (Before that, the professors had already submitted their resignations and retired.) The students who were expelled were Shin Mi-shik, Sa Gil-ja, Kim Jeong-eun, Seo Myeong-jin, Park Seung-gyu, Cheong Dae-hwa, Park Young-sook, Yim Seung-hee, Lee Gye-soon, Kang Jeong-won, Choi Soon-hwa, and Kim Suk-ja. [also Chi Saeng-ryun/Chi Mal-sook and Kim Kyeong shik]

❖ Photo added:

▲ Ewha Womans University students, May 23, 1955.
After their expulsion, the students managed to meet the university president, Kim Hwal-lan (aka Helen Kim). She stood by her decision. This picture was taken on campus after that meeting.
(Front from left) Choi Soon-hwa (mother of Sam Park), Yim Seung-hee, Kim Jeong-eun, Shin Mi-shik (later known as Mamasan Choi), Park Seung-gyu

(Back from left) Seo Myeong-jin, Lee Gye-soon*, Sa Gil-ja (later wife of Eu Hyo-won), Chi Saeng-ryun**, Park Young-sook, Kang Jeong-won and Cheong Dae-hwa (later wife of Kim Young-whi)

* Lee Gye-soon entered Kyunghee University in 1957. She left the Unification Church over 50 years ago and had a successful career as a professor.

** Before Chi Saeng-ryun joined she was known as Chi Mal-sook, and after she moved to the US she used Lee Mal-sook.

Kim Yun-rye was also expelled but later made a pledge to give up the Unification Church, and Ewha Womans University allowed her to return to her studies.

Eight of the expelled students entered other universities in 1956.

Following the professor, fourteen Ewha Womans University students joined. But because of their heretical beliefs, thirteen of them were expelled from the University. (One professor had handed in her resignation and resigned before that.) Those who got expelled from the school were: Shin Mi-shik, Sa Kil-ja, Kim Jung-eun, Seo Myung-jin, Pak Seung-kyu, Chi Mi-sook, Chong Dae-hwa, Park Young-sook, Park Seung-hee, Lee Gye-soon, Kang Jung-won, Choi Soon-wha and Kim Sook-ja.

Another electric torture, this time in Daegu

The headquarters church moved the following year, in January 1955, from Bukhak-dong to a new house in Heungin-dong, in the same Seongdong District, and then again three months later, on April 27, to Jangchung-dong in Jung District. Not long after the move, on May 13, two detectives from the National Police Bureau came to the church. They had infiltrated the church and were observing our actions, and police investigators were also present. I was fairly accustomed to police investigations, but this time there were so many investigators deployed that it felt different.

Unaware of this sense of urgency, elderly female members who had come from the provinces were so agitated that they were shouting or acting wildly, and there were occasions when we had to explain the situation to them and caution them.

▲ Bukhak-dong church in Seoul in 1955. Ok Se-hyun (left), Kang Hyun-shil (right).

❖ Photo and two testimonies added:

391 Bukhak-dong, Seong-dong Gu, Seoul, was the first headquarters church. This building was known as “The House of Three Doors.” The same photo with both women clearly and correctly named is on page 37 of “A Pictorial History of the 40 years of the Unification Church.”

▲ Bukhak-dong church seen after a Sunday Service. Eu Hyo-won is standing with a cane. Sun Myung Moon’s personal room was next door to the infamous house of three doors.

Here is a story from Dr Mose Durst, former president of the FFWPU/UC of the US:
“Mrs. Eu Gil-ja Sa, another early member of the Seoul church, tells of an extraordinary rumor spread around 1955. The church supposedly had three doors that one had to pass through before entering the central meeting hall. One had to remove, so the rumor went, an article of clothing as one passed through each door, so that presumably one entered the final hall completely naked.” (from Durst’s 1984 book To Bigotry No Sanction)

Here are two testimonies from women who were members in 1954-1955. One of them was ‘restored’ in Moon’s room.

Choi Syn-deok 崔信德 (1921-2016) joined in 1954. Later she was Professor of Sociology at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. She wrote an article about the UC in Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch No. 43 (1967) The introduction stated: “She was once an active member of the Tong-il Church [ UC ] and was closely associated with Mun Son-myong.”

“KOREA’S TONG-IL MOVEMENT”
“I present here a brief picture of the Tong-il Church from the sociological point of view. … Many reports have been made about these two religious bodies. [The other was Elder Park Tae-seon’s “Olive-Tree” Church.] There is, however, no one who really knows about their leaders, organizations, beliefs and practices. We have seen many families which have been destroyed, leaving unhappy husbands, sorrowful parents and miserable children because of these new religious movements. The purpose of this research is to help in the solution of these problems of disorganization of homes, and to make a scientific study about these groups, without emotional or biased opinions.
… “Before Moon’s marriage [in 1960], believers, male as well as female, who longed to meet him and talk with him could easily arrange to be with him in the living room of a home attached to the church, staying until very late. They used to talk, sing and laugh without realizing how fast the night went, until after one or two o’clock in the morning. They called this their period of direct association with the master. Its purpose was to educate and train the believers, that is, to “restore” them.” … “In July, 1955, several senior members and four leaders as well as Mr. Moon were imprisoned under an accusation of injuring public morals. (This matter was reported in papers and journals.)” LINK to a PDF of Transactions No. 43

Eu Shin-hee 劉信姫 gave an interview in about 1993:

Q.1: “You were living peacefully with your husband, Mr. Shin Seong-muk, and your five children in Yeongdo, Busan. You lent one of your rooms to Moon’s congregation for a meeting. [On the recommendation of her older cousin, Eu Hyo-won, who was living nearby at the time.] Is that correct?”

Eu: “That’s right. It was on December 24, 1953. In the beginning they said they only needed the room for three days, but in the end it went on for 25 days. …”

Q.5: “You were one of the women who had pikareum with Sun Myung Moon in this way. And yet, Mrs. Eu Shin-hee, you accepted to do an interview, and are probably the first to be willing to show your face in public. How do you feel about this?”

Eu: “The reason why I remained silent to people outside [the church] until now was because I was frightened that the children would know about the reality of pikareum. At my age I can endure it, but it will affect my children and grandchildren negatively. Although this truth is a very shameful thing to talk about, I still want to clarify the facts before I die.”

Q.6: “Please explain some more details about the ‘the restoration’ with Sun Myung Moon.”

Eu: “One female member talked me into it. [at the Seoul church. It was Kim In-ju 金仁珠 who joined in 1946. She was the aunt of Kim Won-pil and first introduced him to Moon.] She led me to Sun Myung Moon’s pitch-dark room late at night. That, in my case, was how I was ‘restored.’ It was finished in just a short time, it was all over in a few moments. I was told that I should come back two more times to complete the ‘restoration,’ to clean up the satanic blood, but I had ‘restoration’ pikareum only once, and then I stopped it.”

Q.7: “Why?”

Eu: “Sun Myung Moon had many relations with various women. I did not know when my turn would next come around, and then because I heard a very unpleasant story. There was a woman who came from the same village as me, and she had a cute daughter. From when she was small, we would hold hands and go to the mountains and rivers or to the church to pray. Later this daughter became a university student. She was still a virgin. Then Sun Myung Moon took her to his room and had sex by force with her. He took away her chastity with the excuse of ‘restoration.’
When this daughter told me, she was crying. Even if it is done in the name of ‘restoration’ it is still sexual intercourse. It doesn’t change the fact that he hurt a young woman by doing this. That is why I gave up on being ‘restored’ two more times.” LINK

In 1993 Eu Shin-hee was also interviewed by Japanese national TV.

Link to an English transcript of the interview.

In order to go to Teacher Moon, who was in Daegu, report this situation, and discuss future countermeasures, I headed to Seoul Station. At that time, Kim Myung-hee was there at the station, and Hwang Hwan-chae and others had come out to see her off. Since I knew the purpose for which Kim Myung-hee was going to Busan, I decided to go together with her as far as Daegu.

As mentioned earlier, Kim Young-hee was a woman who had had her chastity taken by Sun Myung Moon in Yeongdo, Busan, when she was a student at Yonsei University. The details will be described later, but at this time her belly was close to childbirth and was quite noticeable. Oh Seung-taek, who was enrolled at Yonsei University, was with her. They intended to stow away in a fishing boat from Busan to Japan, so with Oh’s help the child could be born there. They would go through tremendous hardship. [Since there were no visa agreements between Korea and Japan, they had to enter the country illegally and would not have access to medical care. They were hoping Moon would send money to support the mother and child, but he never did.]

❖ Two photos added:

▲ Kim Myung-hee with Moon Hee-jin in Korea after their return from a four year stay in Japan. Hee-jin was born in Tokyo on August 17 1955. He died in a train incident on August 1, 1969.

▲ Sun Myung Moon was the father of Moon Hee-jin. (Chongpa-dong, January 5, 1965)

After arriving in Daegu, I first went to look for the house of Pastor Lee Yo-han, but the room was completely empty and no one was there. I had a strange premonition and hurried out, but a detective who had been watching from somewhere came out, showed his identification, and asked what purpose I had in coming to this house, what relationship I had with Pastor Lee, and whether I knew Sun Myung Moon well. When he asked me to present my identification and I showed it, he said, “Are you Pak Chung-hwa?”

I was taken to the Daegu Police Station and interrogated all night. The substance of it was that, since I would know where Teacher Moon was staying, I should tell them. I truly did not know, so I said that I did not know where he was now. Even if I had known, I would not have told them. I was taken in around 10 p.m. and questioned until 10 a.m. During that time, I was subjected to electric torture, with batteries connected to both thumbs. It had happened once in Seoul, and this was the second time.

Afterward, I heard after leaving the police station that the older brother of Kim An-sil had come looking for Pastor Lee without knowing that police were present, and it seemed he learned that I had been taken away. At that time, Teacher Moon had gone to Yongmunsan with Pastor Lee and the members in Daegu, so he was able to avoid the police.

The production and sale of bromide photographs

Around this time, as mentioned earlier, at Eu Hyo-min’s suggestion we traveled around the country, photographing scenic spots and historic sites, as well as streets of Seoul and actors, and sold the photographs as bromide prints. Eu Hyo-min, whose main occupation it was, was in charge of photography, developing techniques, and purchasing materials, while Kim Won-pil, Eu Hyo-young, and Lee Su-gyeong helped with the work in the darkroom. The headquarters church in Heungin-dong was a detached house, so it had as many as five rooms, as well as a room that served as both a reception room and a kitchen. It was an extremely convenient place for producing bromide prints and giving Principle lectures. There were trees in the yard as well, and it was a very good house.

After moving into this house, the number of people joining increased, and the Unification Church continued to grow steadily. At that time, newspapers and rumors were saying things like this: once you enter the Unification Church, no matter how it is done, within two or three days you are brainwashed and end up abandoning your family and joining. There are rumors that someone investigating the inner workings of the church had seen a small room with a red light on and people going in and out all night, and that this room must surely be a place where people were lured, hypnotized and seduced. In fact, however, that room was a darkroom where photographs were being produced.

Bromide photograph production involved giving them a glossy finish in the middle of the night and completing them before dawn. When daybreak came and we waited for the lifting of the curfew, war orphans who peddled cigarette lighter flints on the streets came first thing in the morning and bought them in wholesale lots, so all the bromide prints were quickly sold out.

▲ Members trimming the bromide photographs. [On the left is Kim Kyeong-shik with Kim Myung-hee. Identified by someone who knew them both.]

Because the bromide prints sold so well, we gained a fair amount of financial leeway. At the church, about seventy to eighty people were eating meals every day, and for that reason we were cooking about one sack of rice each day. For the female members at the time, it must have been tremendously hard work, and the cost of meals was also quite high.

All of that financial support was covered entirely by the sale of these photographs. For a while, an interesting sight could be seen on the streets of Seoul. At that time, the street vendors, who had previously been selling American cigarettes on wooden planks, began selling hundreds of different kinds of bromide photographs instead, and more and more street vendors appeared on every street corner. They started making good money from selling photographs.

One morning, while I was doing the glossing work, someone knocked on the door. When I went out, three men were standing there saying they had come to hear the Principle, and the man standing at the very front was none other than Kim In-cheol.

This man was someone I knew well from the time when I was serving as a Haeju company commander in the 2nd Brigade of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Korea. While working as the Haeju branch manager of a transportation corporation, he was also running the Haeju Inn. When I stayed at that inn for about two months, the two of us became drinking companions.

I truly never expected that we would meet in a place like this. We were so glad to see each other that we did not know what to do. We talked about many things, but on the other hand there was also something that worried me. If he were to report my past service as a battalion commander near the 38th parallel in the North Korean army, the investigative authorities might detain me on the pretext that I was a North Korean spy suspect. If that happened, it would cause trouble for the church and have serious consequences. First, I reported this matter to Teacher Moon, and then decided to be cautious about Kim In-cheol’s actions. However, Kim In-cheol attended the church diligently, became an important leader, and did not say a single word about my past.

About twenty years later, when I had an opportunity to meet him again, I confessed my state of mind at that time, and the two of us had a good laugh together.

Song Do-uk (宋道旭), the third Association secretary

Deacon Song Do-uk, who joined the church in Yeongdo, Busan, was a man who went around selling insecticide and doing door-to-door pest control. During the period of Japanese imperialist colonial rule, he had carried out the Korean independence movement in Manchuria. Although he had not received much formal education, he had a solid build, a temperament like split bamboo, with decisiveness in action and sound judgment.

As for the role of Teacher Moon’s secretary, I first held it for a long time, and afterward Eu Hyo-min took it on. The third was Song Do-uk.

He was promoted from Secretary Song to Elder Song, and at the same time became someone in a position to closely assist Teacher Moon. When I was at the Seojin Mine (described later), there was a time when he came on an errand for Teacher Moon and I heard him go on boasting about all sorts of things. His boastful, show-off attitude seemed fearless. He acted overly self-important, speaking loudly and bragging recklessly, so I once admonished Elder Song in front of Elder Jeong Seok-cheon.

Not only that, when traveling around the provinces, I also cautioned him so that he would not startle the innocent and gentle members or engage in incomprehensible bragging.

The events of that time feel almost like yesterday, yet now both Elder Song and Elder Jeong have passed away. Having ascended to the heavenly kingdom, I wonder what they might be doing now. Among the members of that time, the first to die was Mr. Kim Yeong-do of Seoul, who had returned from Shanghai after liberation. After that came the deaths of Song Gi-ju, Jo Dong-seok, Kim Byeong-uk, Eu Hyo-won, Song Do-uk, Jeong Seok-cheon, Yoo Gyeong-gyu, Shin Jeong-sun, Yang Yun-shin, Kim Jae-geun, Ra Sun-ryeol, and Lee Gi-hwan, as well as several female members.

Pausing Briefly to Catch Our Breath

During the time when we were doing bromide photograph work at the Heungin-dong church, we would set aside about 500 won from the proceeds of the bromide sales. When Saturday evening came, Eu Hyo-young, Lee Su-gyeong, and I would go together to the Dongdaemun Market to relieve the fatigue of our work and eat pork or sundae sold by women at street stalls.

We would have a glass of soju together with the tasty side dishes. Then it felt as though our energy returned. When we were worn out from work, we would encourage one another by saying that when Saturday came, we should restore our strength with pork and sundae. That, too, now feels like something that happened just the other day. Truly, the passage of time is as swift as flowing water. In the production of bromide prints, above all, one cannot help but acknowledge Eu Hyo-min’s intellect and skill. At first, ignorant of photographic techniques, I had thought that producing and selling bromide prints was nothing more than a childish pastime, but once we actually began, the income turned out to be greater than expected. I was also astonished by Eu Hyo-min’s meticulous planning ability in accurately and skillfully purchasing, as needed, the materials required for mass production.

In this way, during the Heungin-dong period, the members endured and worked diligently to build an economic foundation for the expansion of the church. Later on, Eu Hyo-min invented and obtained a patent for a “shot pellet air gun” and also succeeded in its mass production.

The income earned at that time was so large that it was on an entirely different scale, amounting to several tens of billions.

Although he has now withdrawn and is no longer a member, Eu Hyo-min married Ra Sun-ryeol (now deceased) and, as a member of the 36 Blessed Couples, received the marriage Blessing, and they have three children. (described later)

The Truth Behind the Arrest of the Church Elders

The arrest of Sun Myung Moon

▲ Kim Young-oon

As five professors of Ewha Womans University (Yang Yun-yeong*, Han Chung-hwa, Choi Won-pok, Kim Young-oon, Lee Jeong-ho), fourteen Ewha Womans University students, as well as Professor Park Sang-rae of Yonsei University and others joined the church in large numbers, the Ewha Womans University authorities became enraged by this situation and filed a complaint with the investigative authorities, demanding that the facts be investigated.

As written earlier, after the headquarters church moved to Jangchung-dong on April 27, 1955, on May 13 one investigator from the prosecution and two detectives from the Special Intelligence Division of the National Police Bureau came to the church. They infiltrated the church, listened to the Principle lectures, and diligently sought to find what problems might exist in them. They also checked the identities of the members coming and going and monitored their daily lives. For about two months, they lived, ate, and slept together with our members while conducting a thorough investigation.

Through Jo Dong-seok, who had a police background, we learned of the police investigation policy, and it was predicted that Teacher Moon and several other leaders would be arrested. Teacher Moon was hiding together with Park Sang-rae in a temporarily rented house at the foot of Samgaksan, and on July 1 he gathered us together to decide on a final course of action. I, Eu Hyo-won, Eu Hyo-min, Jo Dong-seok, Noh Dong-hwi, Kim Soon-cheol, Oh Yeong-choon, Kim In-ju, Shin Jeong-sun, and others went to where Teacher Moon was and discussed various countermeasures.

At that time, Kim Soon-cheol insisted, “We cannot hand Teacher over to the police. How about having him stay in Japan for a while?” It was said that all the necessary funds could also be prepared. Various opinions were expressed, and it was difficult to settle on a policy. In the end, we judged that this time it seemed impossible to flee, and that it would be helpful for the future if we went to the police ourselves, and so we decided accordingly.

Around that time, Kim Deok-jin, who had become a problem because of his loose tongue, was placed under the supervision of Kim Soon-cheol and Kim In-ju, and they rented a house in Sallim-dong, Jung District, where he was made to live. I also stayed in that room for three days as part of the surveillance.

On July 4, 1955, Teacher Moon was finally arrested. Leading up to this point, there had been more than two months of internal probing and investigation. The officer in charge was an inspector from the Special Intelligence Division of the National Police Bureau, and first the HSA president at the time, Eu Hyo-won, was interrogated. As for the HSA president, there was questioning regarding the contents of the Principle. Which parts of the Principle caused university professors and students to leave their schools and join the Unification Church? For what purpose does the Unification Church practice its faith? He was interrogated about such matters all day long.

Next, I was interrogated. They asked questions such as: from when had my relationship with Sun Myung Moon begun? What were the circumstances when we were together in Heungnam Prison? and so on, so I summarized and told them as written earlier (Chapter 1). They also asked: previously his name had been Moon Yong-myung, so why did he change his name to Sun Myung Moon after coming to Busan? To that, I answered that I did not know. While the investigative authorities were examining what crimes, if any, could be established against us, one issue came to the fore.

People who came from the North could not be issued a citizen registration card unless there was a legitimate reason, so how was it that Sun Myung Moon possessed one? It was also said that he had falsified his age.

At the time of the initial investigation, this had not been made an issue, but afterward I heard that when Teacher Moon was pressed about the circumstances under which his registration certificate had been prepared, he was put in a very difficult position. The next day, I appeared at the National Police Bureau and explained that during the Bukhak-dong church period, I had asked the office manager of the district office to prepare the application documents and that I had made Teacher’s citizen registration card.

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In fact, it had been issued as a “forged document” obtained by bribing with under-the-table money. I also had my own citizen registration card made at that time. The falsification of age was due to evasion of military service. Not only that, I was also asked where the funds came from to cover the expenses of many believers living together there.
I answered that we produced and sold “bromide photographic prints” and lived on that money.

Next, I was asked who was in charge of finances and how the organization was structured.

I answered that I, Pak Chung-hwa, was in charge of finances and had handled everything according to Teacher’s instructions. As for the bromide prints, Eu Hyo-min, who had run a photo studio, devoted himself fully to procuring materials and producing them, and Eu Hyo-young, Kim Won-pil, Lee Su-gyeong, Pak Chung-hwa, and others helped. When we finished them by morning, retailers would come at dawn and take everything away wholesale. We were able to use that money for living expenses.

After that, the investigation into the issue of adultery (illicit sexual relations) finally began. When I was asked what it meant that female believers were saying that Pak Chung-hwa was a “great satan,” I was truly at a loss. When I tried to remain silent, the officer in charge shouted angrily and said that since I had been together with Sun Myung Moon for a long time, I must have seen everything he did. He demanded that I tell it all. He slammed the desk and threatened me, saying, “There is talk that Sun Myung Moon is the Messiah of the Second Coming and that just as Jesus died on the cross, he too will die as the price for sin. Is that really true? Answer me.”

I replied that I had never heard anyone say that I was a great satan. As for why the wives of the members had said such things, I myself did not know. Then the officer in charge said that their investigators had heard Kim Chae-geun, the elderly woman believer from Daegu, saying such things, and that there was no way I could not know.

The next day, this matter was resolved when the Daegu grandmother voluntarily appeared at the National Police Bureau and explained to the officer in charge that she had merely spoken as she had because she had received a certain revelation.

It is true that around this time there were some people saying that “Pak Chung-hwa is a great satan.” That was because, since I knew Sun Myung Moon’s affairs in detail and more than sufficiently, if I were to speak to the investigative authorities, Sun Myung Moon would absolutely not have been able to remain unharmed. If that happened, “Teacher Moon, the Messiah of the Second Coming,” would die on the cross just like Jesus, and therefore Pak Chung-hwa, who held that key, was Satan. That was the thinking of innocent old women. To that extent, Sun Myung Moon’s arrest seems to have been giving the members a sense of crisis. (See the section on Eu Hyo-min in Chapter 7.)

If the officer in charge had understood the true meaning of this, he would have pressed me even more thoroughly and intensively to explain the facts.

❖ Photo added

▲ “Misleading women into fornication through eloquence.” Left to right: Kim Won-pil, Eu Hyo-yeong, Eu Hyo-min and Sun Myung Moon on trail for adultery, July 29, 1955.

The focus of the investigation was on illicit sexual relations

With regard to illicit sexual relations, even stricter and more concentrated investigations continued.

The officer in charge gradually probed deeper and said: according to your Principle, Eve had sexual relations with the archangel Lucifer, and Eve again had sexual relations with Adam, thereby giving rise to original sin.

And in order to restore this original sin, a sinless person representing God appears in this world, and if sexual intercourse is carried out by that person, the sin is cleansed. In short, it is called restoration. Is that really so?

According to that Principle, Sun Myung Moon tells women that since he is the Messiah of the Second Coming, by having sex with him they become restored humans, and it seems that he is having sex with many women, especially married women. Have you ever witnessed this?” I was pressed in this way. Since I could not tell the truth, I said that with regard to matters of the Principle, the Association President Eu Hyo-won was in charge, so he would know the details. I was in charge of the economic sector and had never given thought to such matters.

I had only believed in and followed Teacher Moon since the time he was in prison. The story that he had sex with many women, especially married women, was utterly unfounded. I lied, saying that I had never heard of such a thing.

Then the officer in charge said, “It seems that within your church there are two lines of opinion.”

One group are people who unconditionally support the Principle, believing that by changing one’s blood lineage through pikareum sex with Sun Myung Moon, one becomes truly restored and is reborn as a human being free from sin. They believe that only when the descendants born from such couples come to rule this world will it become a sinless world like the Garden of Eden, completely restored.

On the other hand, there are people who hold doubts, asking: Sun Myung Moon was also born as a human being like us, as the second son of Moon Gyeong-yu at 2221 Sangsa-ri, Deogeon-myeon, Jeongju-gun, Pyeonganbuk-do. How, then, can he become the Messiah of the Second Coming, free from original sin, capable of exchanging blood lineage (血代交換) and restoring others? In other words, Sun Myung Moon is ultimately a fallen human who inherited original sin, and is not God, and therefore cannot perform such acts as saving people through pikareum sex restoration. What do you think of this?

The story that “restoration is achieved through sex” is a rumor fabricated and spread by someone. There is no such fact.

What, then, did Sun Myung Moon actually do while he was in the North, and after fleeing south, it is said that he was investigated by investigative authorities in places like Busan and Daegu. Do you know what those matters were?

While he was in the North, Sun Myung Moon was studying the biblical principles of Christianity and was merely teaching new truths to believers. Upon hearing this, many believers from established churches gathered to him.

The families of those believers fled south and learned that Sun Myung Moon was preaching biblical principles in places such as Busan and Daegu, and they reported this to the investigative authorities, which seems to have caused some problems.

Then it is said that Sun Myung Moon has a wife and child. What is the situation with that?

He has a wife, Choi Seon-gil, and an eldest son, Seong-jin, and until very recently they were in Busan, but now they are probably in Seoul. It is said that after hearing rumors that Sun Myung Moon had sexual relations with many women, she threw out all the household belongings, and obstructed women from coming in Busan, and did that again when she came to Seoul. Is that true?

Wouldn’t that constitute evidence of illicit sexual relations?

It is true that his wife came from Busan to Seoul and did such things, but it arose solely from issues of faith, and there absolutely were no sexual relations. There is no such fact.

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The indictment of five church elders

After my interrogation, Eu Hyo-min and Eu Hyo-young, male members, were questioned. Kim Won-pil was questioned next, and since he had been evading military service up to that point, that became an issue.

Then the investigation of the female members began. Ok Se-hyun was the first to be questioned. The investigation of women was conducted only during the daytime, and they were questioned one person per day. Shin Jeong-sun*, Oh Yeong-choon, and Yang Yun-sin were questioned in turn. In every case, the content of the investigation concerned the facts of illicit sexual relations.

❖ Photo added:

▲ Choi Soon-wha is standing directly in front of Moon. On the left is Choi Won-pok and on the right is Kim Young-oon. These two Ewha Womans University professors, along with three other professors, encouraged their students to join the UC and be pikareum cleansed by Moon. All were expelled from the Christian University due to their involvement with Moon. The scandal was covered in Japanese newspapers as well as Korean ones. Link to Korean newspaper coverage of the scandal.

On the 5th, Kim Won-pil was arrested; on the 6th, Eu Hyo-min and Eu Hyo-young; on the 13th, Eu Hyo-won; and on the 18th, the woman Choi Soon-shil was arrested. In the end, including Teacher Moon, five people were arrested.

At that time, the church’s external relations were handled by two people, Noh Jeong-u and Jo Dong-seok. Jo Dong-seok went to the National Police Bureau and said that if Mr. Pak Chung-hwa were arrested, it would affect the livelihoods of dozens of members, so he requested that it be postponed for the time being. Thanks to his promise that he would produce me whenever a summons was issued by the prosecution, I was not arrested.

At this time, Teacher Moon was being held in a detention cell at the Jungbu Police Station. At Jungbu Police Station, Kim Deok-jin’s brother-in-law, Kim Seon-hwan, was serving as a police officer, so it was relatively easy to obtain visitation.

Choi Soon-shil, since she was still young, was caught by leading questions during the officer’s investigation into illicit sexual relations and was therefore detained, but through her (rich) father’s persistent negotiations she was not indicted and was released after one week.

On July 29, 1955, the five men were all indicted solely on charges of evading military service. We waited with anxious hearts, thinking that a summons from the prosecution might come, but fortunately nothing of the sort happened.

As things went on, Jo Dong-seok came to me and said that the National Police Bureau had introduced lie detectors from the United States, and that if Mr. Pak were to be taken again to the National Police Bureau for questioning, matters that had been hidden until now would become an issue. If that were exposed, it would be a serious problem, so wouldn’t it be wise to hide somewhere until the trial was over? He said that Teacher would surely agree as well, and urged me to hide quickly.

After some thought, I decided to accept that suggestion.

Fleeing from the hands of the investigators

Then I also received contact from Moon. There was a check for 50,000 won in the Teacher Moon’s desk drawer at the Jangchung-dong church, and it was to be used in case of emergency. I took it and went to Masan to visit Yang Yun-sin, who was at the Masan National Tuberculosis Sanatorium. At that time, Yang Yun-sin was serving as the head nurse at the Masan Sanatorium. I stayed there as a guest for about half a month.

While I was in Masan, a man named Lee Won-ju suddenly came to visit together with his younger sibling Lee Deok-sun, Shin Seong-muk and Park Bong-sik who had come from Busan, and Kim Jeong-sook, the biological daughter of Yang Yun-sin. All of them were members of our church. Whenever we gathered, we were always worried about the trial of Teacher Moon and the executives in Seoul.

After about ten days passed, Lee Won-ju went off somewhere, and then, after some time, a strange incident occurred. Lee Won-ju suddenly began saying that he alone was the Messiah of the Second Coming, and that Sun Myung Moon was not the Messiah of the Second Coming.

The people who had gathered at his house believed all of this and prayed day and night while weeping. Lee Won-ju, it seems, was abusing the Principle, saying things like that unless he actually carried out restoration sex with several women, including Mrs. Yang’s daughter Kim Jeong-sook, and thereby resolved the resentments of heaven, it would not do.

Mrs. Yang was completely beside herself and became unable to continue working at the sanatorium, and in the end she was expelled from that place. Since she rented a house in Seoul and moved there, I also moved to Daegu.

Although I moved to Daegu, there was also a church there, and since I was a fugitive in hiding, I could not feel at ease no matter what.

So I went to Seogwipo on Jeju Island, where some relatives were living. There, I had no choice but to learn about the progress of the trial at the Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office by reading newspapers.

▲ “Misleading women into fornication through eloquence.” Left to right: Kim Won-pil, Eu Hyo-yeong, Eu Hyo-min and Sun Myung Moon on trail for adultery, July 29, 1955.

On September 20, 1955, a first-instance trial was held at the Seoul District Court with Presiding Judge Yoon Hak-no and Prosecutor Kang Seo-yong.

❖ Added information:

Moon was found guilty and started a two year jail sentence in Seoul in September 1955. Money and influence bought him an acquittal in October.

▲ The defendants in front of the judge at the trial. ‘X’ marks the leader, Moon. Eu Hyo-min is in the center. The others are Eu Hyo-won, Eu Hyo-yeong and Kim Won-pil.

동아일보 Dong-A Ilbo (East Asia Daily News) September 21, 1955

어제첫公判統一教會事件

어제첫공판통일교회사건

Yesterday the first trial was held in the Unification Church matter

On September 20, ‘Unification Church’ leader Moon Sun Myung (real name, Moon Yong Myung), aged 36, appeared for the first day of his trial in Seoul District Court No. 4. At the 10:30a.m. hearing the presiding judge was Yoon Hak-no ( 尹學老 ) and the prosecutor was Kang Seo-yong ( 姜瑞龍 ) who was handling the prosecution of Moon Sun Myung. [The afternoon hearing was at 2:30p.m.] On this day the court was jam-packed with many women who seemed to be ‘Unification Church’ believers.

Defendant Moon, who has been much talked about concerning multiple alleged adulteries, on the day only stood as a defendant for charges of Military Service Act violations. This is because there were no complaints from the alleged victims. Along with him, other defendants from the same church stood trial as well: Kim Won-pil (28, violated the Military Service Act, and had raised his age by six years), Eu Hyo-won (42, failed to report to military record), Eu Hyo-min (36, same charge as above), and Eu Hyo-yeong (35, same charge as above).

As soon as the court session began the prosecution read the list of indictments and then the investigation into the facts proceeded. Defendant Moon did admit that he had raised his age. The legal profession still had two arguments about whether raising one’s age, even when the person subject to the draft was over 32 or 33 years old, was a violation of the Military Service Act. Nevertheless, Prosecutor Kang, in the bill of indictment, pointed out that defendant Moon “had raised his age to avoid the draft (military service) in accordance with the Christian doctrine against injuring others or taking life”.

September 21, 1955 서울新聞 Seoul Shinmun Seoul Daily News

兵役위반是認統一敎會事件公判
女信徒들法廷서祈禱
병역위반시인 통일교회 사건공판
여신도들 법정서 기도
The trial of the Unification Church leader who admitted evasion of military service
Female followers pray during the court proceedings

동아일보 Dong-A Ilbo newspaper, September 22, 1955

文敎主에二年統一敎會事件求刑

문교주에 이년 통일교회사건구형

Prosecution proposed a sentence of two years against Cult Leader Moon in the Unification Church matter

작보 = 二 (이) 십일 개정된 『통일교회사건』제一 (일) 회공판에서 사실심리에이어 관여 姜瑞龍 (강서용) 검사는피고들에게 각각다음과같이 체형구형을하였다

▲ 文鮮明 (문선명) (교주) = 懲役二年 (징역이년)

▲ 劉孝元 (유효원) = 懲役二年 (징역이년)

▲ 金元弼 (김원필) 劉孝敏 (유효민) 劉孝永 (유효영)
= 各各懲役一年六月 (각각징역일년륙월)

Following earlier report: The first trial regarding the ‘Unification Church incident’ started on the 20th [September 1955]. After investigating the facts, prosecutor Kang Seo-yong ( 姜瑞龍 ), recommended the following terms for the defendants:

▲ Moon Sun Myung (religious leader) = Imprisonment for two years

▲ Eu Hyo-won = Imprisonment for two years

▲ Kim Won-pil, Eu Hyo-min, Eu Hyo-yeong
= Each person imprisonment for one year and six months

Robert W. Roland
He testified to the US Fraser Committee investigation of Sun Myung Moon and his organization in 1978. He commented on the Ewha scandal:
“Moon was eventually charged and jailed but was ultimately released when the young girls, in their misplaced shame, refused to testify publicly. …”

Apparently a large number of young women claimed their right to remain silent in court.

❖ End of added information

However, on October 4 of the same year Teacher Moon was declared not guilty.

Reading this report in the newspaper, I was extremely glad as someone who had served Teacher Moon.

The purpose of the investigation at that time was to establish the facts of illicit pikareum sexual relations called restoration.

However, the female members would have no reason to speak of their own shameful stories, and their husbands also did not accuse Sun Myung Moon because their male pride would not allow it. In the end, because all those involved committed perjury, Sun Myung Moon survived.

It is, of course, a fact that the female members had sexual relations with Sun Myung Moon.

Chapter 4

The Tragedy of the Six Marys

Exploring the book and the history of the Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han and family organizations

Six Marys Chapter 3

The Period Before and After the Founding of the Unification Church

어제첫公判統一教會事件

어제첫공판통일교회사건

The Period Before and After the Founding of the Unification Church

어제첫公判 統一教會 事件

어제첫공판통일교회사건

어제첫公判統一教會事件