Fear and Loathing at Cheongpyeong - The Tragedy of the Six MarysThe Tragedy of the Six Marys

updated March 1, 2022

Contents:
1. Going through slapping therapy once  – when I was 5 or 6 years old – testimony
2. Kook Jin ‘Justin’ Moon exposed Dae Mo Nim as a fraud in 2012
3. Insanity at Cheongpyeong – testimony
4. Fear and loathing at Cheongpyeong – testimony
5. My parents forced me to go to Cheongpyeong; there I was tied up, given shots and locked up in the hospital. – testimony
6. The Cheongpyeong experience in 1996 – testimony
7. Losing my mind in Cheongpyeong in the Seorak Mountains of South Korea – testimony
8. Soon-ae Hong (the mother of Hak Ja Han) spent two years in Chuncheon Prison after Ansu beating a mentally-ill boy to death.
9. DaeMo-nim (Hyo-nam Kim) pours guilt on the Japanese
10. Depression and Dae Mo Nim – testimony
11. The Cheongpyeong Providence and the Way of Blessed Family (1999)
12. DaeMo-nim speaks to pregnant women, January 13, 2013
13. DaeMo-nim liberates $182 million golf course – the Pine Ridge Resort
The Sokcho Incident
14. [Exclusive Report] Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center. Claims have been made that hundreds of billions of won ($hundreds of millions) were embezzled from Unification Church / FFWPU followers. – July 2014
15. [Exclusive Report] Standing before the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center, Japanese members of the Unification Church demonstrated to demand the return of illegally used donations of 263 billion won. They asserted that Hoon-mo Hyo-nam Kim’s family committed illegal bestowal, misappropriation and embezzlement. – August 2014
16. The Official Document on Hyo-nam Kim’s Dismissal
17 “The Angels and Absolute Good Spirits have left Cheongpyeong” – Hyo-nam Kim
18. Exposing Cheongpyeong

청평

▲ Hyo-nam Kim at Cheongpyeong. She ran a massive fraud and collected over $1 billion to pay for the marble palace of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. She acquired properties, including a golf course, for the benefit of her own family. Finally she was dismissed by Hak Ja Han in 2015.

1. I only remember going through slapping therapy once  – when I was 5 or 6.

I was no older than six, probably younger. I can’t really remember.
All I remember is a hall full of people with Dae-Mo at the front leading us. We were all singing and would alternate between clapping and hitting the person in front of us. I was in front of this middle-aged guy and he hit me so hard I was crying the whole time.

I was separated from my brother and parents, although that was probably unintentional knowing the church and its familial focus.

I told my parents after how hard I was hit and how much it hurt, and they told me it was supposed to hurt and that it gets the bad spirits out. I hate the moonies…

2. Kook Jin ‘Justin’ Moon exposed Dae Mo Nim as a fraud in 2012

[On] Wednesday, September 19, 2012, Tongil Foundation chairman Kook Jin Moon held a meeting with his staff and other representatives. The meeting was for the purpose of addressing the problem that True Mother had given him the direction to step down from the position of chairman of the Tongil Foundation.

According to someone present at the meeting, Mr. Kook Jin Moon said that he will not step down even if True Mother orders him to step down. He said that the reason is because True Mother’s order is influenced by Hoon Mo [aka Kim Hyo-nam] from Cheongpyeong. And he flat out denied the spiritual work being done by Hoon Mo Nim.

In the staff meeting Mr. Kook Jin Moon cursed at Hoon Mo Nim even calling her that [expletive] and saying that she is not Dae Mo Nim, saying that when he asked her about Young Jin Nim or Heung Jin Nim [his two brothers who had both died] she could not answer him correctly.

During the meeting he went as far as accusing that True Mother and Hoon Mo Nim euthanized Father.
extract from: 
https://www.unification.net/damian/dja20120924.html

A rumor from Germany: Sun Myung Moon knew very well “Dae Mo Nim” was scamming the members, but he liked the money. A western member fluent in Korean overheard a conversation between Moon and Kim Hyo-nam in Germany during a European ‘ancestor liberation’ tour she was conducting. She reported to him how much money she had collected. Moon replied, “You are such a thief!”

3. Insanity at Cheongpyeong

Speaking of Cheongpyeong, my mother once told me about her first time in the Moonie Mecca. None of the marble buildings existed. Men and women were simply separated by suitcases for their living spaces. I cannot remember if they were in a huge tent or something, but I am pretty sure that is what she said. She told me the story in Japlish, so it was a messy conversation. My mother spoke about how not a single person was not ill or dealing with some kind of cough. A lot of members dealt with mumps and viruses of all sorts. Sleeping was incredibly difficult the first night because at least a sixth of the room was constantly coughing. My mother compared the conditions to that of a prison camp.

My mother told me about how she was assigned to take care of a “possessed” Japanese woman. She and several others took shifts on taking care of the woman. They would pray for her, ansu her, clean her up, feed her, console her, etc. The woman, apparently, was be possessed by the spirit of a violent geisha as well as the spirit of a child and a woman who killed her lover by cutting off his genitals. She would constantly grope my mother and the others who took care of her. My mother recounted an experience of this woman throwing her feces at my mother. My mother was not part of a staff or anything—she was just chosen by the leaders to look after this unstable woman. The thing is, this woman was in Cheongpyeong for months. She wasn’t checked into a mental hospital and nobody ever tried to diagnose her. Spiritual healing was the only offer given to her. Ansu was the answer.

I have heard story after story of people with serious psychological issues going to Cheongpyeong for “healing”. I myself met a girl who went insane during a workshop at Cheongpyeong due to her desire to become “spiritually open”. She was an American BC who would be considered average in many ways. She dated a bit in high school but was convicted of that and joined STF after high school. For more spiritual cleansing, she went to Cheongpyeong. She fasted constantly and spent all her break time in prayer and one day she snapped and started acting like a child. I met her post-break down and I can tell you of dozens of experiences of her doing something ridiculous. I once saw her crying and eating dirt under a tree. I once saw her smacking the crotch of another unstable woman during ansu. She was in Cheongpyeong for over a year. How can one become insane in a place where you’re in CONSTANT spiritual liberation? Evil spirits are supposed to be constantly pushed out of one’s body when in the spiritual environment of Cheongpyeong. What is even more puzzling is the fact that I met others in that same situation. I met many who had either gone insane in Cheongpyeong or their conditions worsened despite their long stay.

There is now a hospital building at Cheongpyeong that offers those with psychological instability help. Though it exists, they do not offer much other than drugs and the fees are ridiculously expensive, especially for a foreigner. Though the Divine Principle presents a “rational gospel,” the fruits of the Unification Church, such as Cheongpyeong, reveal that rationality isn’t a core principle of the Church.

4. Fear and loathing at Cheongpyeong

There was a brief time in my life as a Moonie when all the pressure and theatrics of the Moon family dynasty seemed far away and the effects of mass psychosis had died down to a minimum. Family life and domestic issues were given high priority and folks had time to breathe and actually plan for their futures. Except for the occasional visits to our fair city from one of the members of Moon’s family, church life proceeded in a calm and predictable manner. The members were happy to turn out the assembly for the touring Moon family speaker, perhaps a few employees and the occasional VIP would attend. The speech covered all the familiar points to which all agreed and warmly applauded on cue. The Moon family member was feted at a luxury hotel and given a tour of the local facilities, all proudly provided with the donations of the local Moonie community. Then they were sent home amid Mansei cheers and congratulations….a total victory for God over Satan! The providence was marching on and on.

Then the madness started again. We had heard the rumors about a certain spiritualist (Hyo-nam Kim) in South Korea that was channeling messages from Mrs. Moon’s dead mother and others in spirit world, but no one really assigned any importance to this development. Perhaps we thought that our experience with the black Heung Jin was enough to scare the devil out of the membership and we had quietly moved on to another chapter in the dispensation. Sadly, it wasn’t to be. Workshops were being organized at a church facility in a place called Cheongpyeong where members could attend and, for a hefty donation, have their burdensome evil ancestors exorcized. How this was accomplished wasn’t explained at first and the members returning from these workshops were reluctant to explain the process. Perhaps they were embarrassed or because it was so complicated or maybe it was just a mystery – nobody knew until they were initiated.

▲ Hyo-nam Kim beating evil spirits out of a member in New York.

I didn’t have much interest based on my previous experiences with this sort of thing in New York City and expressed as much to my wife. She seemed to agree but as time went on the pressure from both peers and church headquarters to participate was gradually increased until my wife relinquished and committed herself. She decided to take a circuitous tour and visit her family in Japan first then spend the required time at Cheongpyeong and alleviate herself of her sinful ancestors. Since we both agreed that my ancestors were probably more sinful than hers, we would forgo their liberation until some later date when we could better afford the cost of the service. Since we had three small children we decided it would be easier for her to take the eldest and I keep the younger two until the last week of her workshop when we would be reunited at the facility at the culmination of the workshop.

I really had reservations about the whole thing and we did argue about the importance of the event over our family finances but she eventually wore me down as most wives do. I was calculating in my mind the net cost savings of the money spent on “ancestor liberation” over extended stays in Japan with numerous visits to the hot springs, shopping malls, etc. Compromise for the sake of family unity seemed to be the order of the day so off she went for the forty day workshop.

My trip to Korea started pleasantly enough albeit with minor irritations like heavy snow fall and delayed luggage. My children and I were happily greeted by my wife and eldest daughter upon arrival at Cheongpyeong but something about her seemed different. My wife’s neck and face were so swollen that her eyes were almost closed. I asked her repeatedly what happened but she declined to explain and assured me that it was nothing … really. We proceeded to our accommodation where I was surprised to find the members were sleeping in sleeping bags on foam mats on the floor of a building that was little more than a finished warehouse. Heat was furnished through the floor but only in the evening hours. My wife insisted on preparing our beds now even though it was still daylight because there were no lights and the choice spots on the floor filled up quickly. I was incredulous as I looked around me. There were families there with babies who were sick with deep hacking coughs; actually everybody seemed to be sick and miserable. I started to ply my wife with questions about the facility to which she was still reluctant to answer. She quickly adopted the pleading tone that she used to get me to go along with difficult directions from the church. I decided it was best not to make a scene and went into survival mode, preparing our bed along the wall so that we wouldn’t be trampled in the night by new arrivals.

The next morning I went outside to survey our situation and it became apparent then that there was no escaping the place without the assistance of the organizers. We were truly in the boonies as we had taken a two hour bus ride from Seoul to reach it. The nearest settlement was a couple miles down the road and would have required a taxi and probably a translator. Panic started to settle in as I suddenly realized that we were trapped. The only vehicles around were black sport utilities with tinted out windows. I walked past one glowering at the occupants who I could see through their open driver’s window. There were two Korean men inside who were smoking and laughing hilariously at me as if they could read my mind. My wife came running up to me to tell me with urgency that it was time for “Ansoo”. What’s that? Said I with trepidation as my world was spinning out of control. “Just come, please”. We started to walk back to the facility where I could hear singing, clapping and drumming. I reassured myself that it couldn’t be so bad – surely it was just preparation for lectures on Divine Principle like the old days.

We gathered the children and proceeded to the hall where all the singing was taking place and entered to find the members neatly sitting in straight rows facing toward the front stage. There were three or four youths on stage who were busy dancing and belting out holy songs to the driving beat provided by a bass drum and the clapping of the members.

▲ Cheongpyeong

One of them would start screaming something incoherent in Korean and the members commenced slapping their bodies on locations proscribed by the cheerleader. These commands changed periodically to include a different location of your body. Sometimes someone behind would start pounding the person in front of them and then they would swap. Children weren’t spared in the ritual. The cheerleaders seemed to be working themselves into some sort of frenzied trance. There appeared to be cadre pacing the rows ready to swoop in and start pounding someone who lacked sufficient enthusiasm.

▲ Cheongpyeong

I immediately recognized where the swelling came from on my wife’s face as I watched her organize our kids into rows. She couldn’t look me in the eyes as I was furious and appalled at the same time. I grabbed her hand and dragged her to the back of the hall where I could explain how I felt to her. She tried to explain to me that she was doing this for our sake and I could see that she was torn between her desire to believe and participate and the frightening illogic of the whole scene. I grabbed the children and took them out of the hall and she followed me pleading with me to return. It became clear to me that she was embarrassed by my behavior in front of the other members so I moved back to the empty sleeping quarters to speak to her. I explained to her that I wasn’t going to be subjected to this mindless behavior and would not allow the children to suffer it either. I told her that we would leave on the first available bus with or without her and she started crying. At that point I didn’t care what the members thought about me as I was so indignant at the fact that she thought she could deceive me into participating against my own better judgment.

Eventually she relinquished when I offered to compromise by staying to the end of her workshop with the children so that she could go on beating herself up. I couldn’t change our flight schedule and staying in Seoul would have been more expensive. I spent the next three days touring the facility and amusing myself at what I observed. I wasn’t the only non-participant there as I found large numbers of Korean teenagers wandering around and in some cases pairing off in the hills surrounding the facility. The kids seemed to have more sense than their parents. I also discovered why the organizers were so adamant about using environmentally safe personal care products. It seems that the planners felt it was more important to ship in expensive marble from Italy than build a sewage treatment plant for the facility. Outfall pipes were plainly visible extending into the lake. While taking a walk in the front courtyard one frigid morning I noticed a kindred soul had expressed himself creatively on the monument that was dedicated to Moon. It was a giant phallic symbol resembling the Washington monument with highly detailed reliefs at the base depicting Moon doing battle with Satan and his minions. Someone had urinated on Moon’s face leaving frozen yellow icicles extending from his marble features. Moon was scheduled to visit the facility that very night so I felt the sacrilege was very appropriate.

▲ The Cheongpyeong tower

While creature comforts were far and few between at Cheongpyeong, we were delighted to find a public bathhouse on the facility one day, and quite by accident. There was a loud row between a large European sister and one of the Korean grounds keepers out front of the bath house. He had firmly planted himself with his broom in front of the entrance of the sister’s bath and was helping himself to glimpses of their glistening bodies when the door swung open. I met a member that I had been acquainted with on MFT many years previously while languishing in the bath house with my kids. He was now employed at the Washington Times and we had a hearty chuckle together as he recounted Moon’s sudden but timely about-face in the editorials of the paper on President Clinton’s adulterous affairs. Moon seemed to have switched abruptly from revulsion to open empathy right at the same time that his daughter and Nansook Hong were making very revealing public statements about Moon’s private life.

The food at Cheongpyeong was rather plain even by Korean standards and consisted mainly of rice, kimchee and a curious dish that was diplomatically described as “spicy crabs”. It consisted of tiny sea crabs cooked in cayenne sauce until crunchy but digestible. I had never encountered it before or since and it reminded me of other traveller’s accounts of eating locusts in Africa. The only other choice was ramen noodles and other vending food being sold for a premium at the company store. When sitting in the cafeteria one time enjoying my spicy crabs, I noticed the local church honchos chowing down on a six course meal in the corner, complete with bulgogi and other Korean delicacies. I made my displeasure evident as I slowly lead my children around their table on our way out and they responded by loudly sucking their teeth.

Moon finally made his promised appearance and the members lined up on either side of the main road six deep to greet him. I chose to go up on top of the roof of the main hall with my family for a better view. I was alarmed to see him arrive in a fancy Mercedes sedan at a high rate of speed which barely missed some of the members by inches as it roared up the road. Rather than stop in front of the hall and enter in grand style as he always did in the US, he chose to speed by the crowds and go down into a secret underground parking garage. The members began packing themselves into the main hall to hear Moon speak and I could see the cadre organizing the members on the floor by ethnicity. Japanese members seemed to get preference in the front rows closest to Moon with Westerners in the back. I assumed that this was done for security reasons, probably an indication that Moon shrewdly anticipated possible attacks from his own followers.

Predictably, his speech was long and barely engaging, especially for those of us in the back of the hall with small children. I gently placed my kids on the piles of bedding along the wall as they each dropped off to sleep and turned to whisper to my neighbors. It seems that we were all struggling with the same issues of humiliation and dismay over what had become of our time in the church. Finally Moon announced a break around midnight for us to get food. What about sleep? I thought out loud as the members stood, stretched and gathered their kids up to start shuffling toward the exits. I quickly realized that there was going to be a bottleneck at the stairwells and lifted one child onto my shoulders and placed one in front of me. I was trying to follow my wife and eldest daughter through the crowd. The horde of bodies began pressing together in the stairwell when my daughter looked up at me and told me she couldn’t breathe. I quickly reversed course and led her back into the hall against the flood of humanity. She had a mild case of asthma and I wasn’t going to take any chances. We later met at our sleeping quarters with my wife and eldest daughter who brought us each a plate of spicy crabs. After our midnight snack I told my wife that I preferred to go to bed early on the last evening of our vacation at Moonie land. She was disappointed but understanding and returned for the glorious finale of Moon’s speech.

The kids and I awoke refreshed and full of anticipation for our long flight home to the US. We didn’t have an opportunity to see the celebrated DaeMo-nim in person but I didn’t have any regrets. I was just glad to be done with the whole sordid affair and as we queued up for the bus, I could tell that the other members were equally relieved that it was over.

It has been a number of years since our experience and my wife and I haven’t discussed it in detail. I think it’s safe to say that we are both grateful to almighty God to have returned us from the edge of the abyss with mind, body and family intact.

Sincerely as always, Frank Frivilous

▲ Phallic symbols at Cheongpyeong – Moon’s sex cult pikareum theology hidden in plain sight.

6. My parents forced me to go to Cheongpyeong; there I was tied up, given shots and locked up in the hospital

For more posts like this, follow the author at @iwannariot on Instagram

edited for clarity

Because, as ‘Blessed Children’ we are each “a child of God without original sin” we were always told and expected to keep our purity no matter what – and we cannot choose anything else.

My parents seriously believed that if they do not raise me “PURE” and correct in the church, our family will fall into hell. They believed they must protect the children’s lineage of God.

My parents wouldn’t listen to me. But instead they listened to the church leaders who gave them the ideas of Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s teaching about the spiritual world.

A lot of church members believed bad things happened in their life basically due to “spiritual issues”.

There is a lot of shaming. Fear. SO many negative reactions towards us.

“I” was called the bad one. They looked at me as a bad one because I happened to have a boyfriend. And they believed it was because of Satan. They said evil spirits were controlling me and trying to destroy our family. This is why my parents, and the leaders, believed Cheongpyeong will help to remove my evil spirits.

You know, the Unification Church doesn’t know anything. Stop sending your children to these places. Listen to them. Talk to them. Don’t let the church take care of them. You need to take care of them.

I was just a heartbroken girl at the Cheongpyeong Training Center. A 15 years old girl who did not understand why she was in this place and NOT in school. I begged my parents to take me back to school. But they kept me away from everything.

And all I had left was REVENGE for this Unification Church.
I felt hurt.
I felt anger.
I felt fear.

But what kind of revenge a teenage girl can actually do? I decided not to care about their ideas of the spiritual world. The Unification Church did not scare me anymore.

I ditched everything in the workshops. I skipped their ansu/hitting your body sessions. And skipped the lectures that happened from early morning till late at night.

I was in trouble for running away from their strict schedules. There would be leaders and guards watching the trainees all the time. So they would catch me. A leader hit me in the stomach. Always yelled at me but I just didn’t care.

But I would just escape from them so many times. I did not want to be controlled. I kept thinking it was not my choice or never my fault for being there.

The leaders were always looking for me. We were like playing hide and seek everyday. But I was not doing it for fun.

It was extremely stressful running away from my dad and the leaders all the time. I did drinking. Smoking. Hanging out with boys in Cheongpyeong. Nothing filled my loneliness. I never imagined myself doing these things. But I lost my mind. I wanted to go back to school. I wanted to see my boyfriend. I wanted to hear something from him. But I was not allowed to leave that place. I was trapped. I didn’t know what to do. I thought doing “something bad” could help me from being depressed the whole time. I thought this could be a little revenge.

And that’s when my dad was just sick and tired of me. He thought there was something wrong with me because I didn’t understand anything about the Unification Church. He was telling me that evil spirits were controlling me and they were giving me mental illness.
(Yes, the Unification Church is very insulting. It’s inappropriate to describe people living with mental illnesses as being controlled by evil spirits.)

As I am typing this, my hands are shaking. I realized I am holding my breath unconsciously, and I am getting sick. Because I am telling you the truth. After all that running away and getting away from my parents and the leaders, I was forcibly put in a church-owned psychiatric hospital next to the training center. It’s called the HJ Magnolia International Hospital. The complex is north-east of Seoul.

I want you to know this happened in the Unification Church organization. I was still a minor, being confused and did not understand WHY I had to be controlled in the place. Please think about why these places even existed.

When I was there, all doors were locked. I was told I must stay at the hospital that was connected to the training center.   The first thing they did was tie me up and told me not to move because they were giving me shots. They never said anything about the shots.

I refused to be in the hospital, so that was the reason why the doctor was giving me shots.   Yes, I did scream to STOP what they were doing. Remember, I was only 15 or 16 years old.

I kept saying “You are not supposed to do that!” but they laughed. They didn’t listen to me. I was tied up for that day and the doctor came to see me later and said, “Are you going to be good now?”

“Are you going to be good now?” What do you mean by that really?   I was too numb, but I do remember strongly saying NO to it. And he said “Okay you will be tied longer” That was the first thing they did to me. I was just really shocked.   I was surrounded by people I did not know. I did not know how long I was going to stay there… no one told me. It was frightening.

There was a name tag on every patient’s bed. I remember the patients had the “names” of the mental illnesses they were having. But the nurse did not write anything on my name tag. Nothing was written on it. I asked them many questions like WHY I had to be there. WHAT is wrong with me, but they just never told me anything except I was not behaving well at the training center.

There was always a Divine Principle book on my desk. They still wanted me to read it while I was forced to be in the hospital. They were still indoctrinating me with their teachings. The doctor came to see me and asked me how much I read that book.

They were still controlling me.   They told me to take the medicines. Even though I asked them what it was for, they never explained anything to me. They just told me, “Be good and you can go back.”

I was just numb all the time.

But I didn’t exactly give up. I knew I was not wrong. I knew this was church abuse. But unfortunately I didn’t know how to put the abuse into the right words at that time. I was too scared.

It was a hopeless situation. I already knew I had lost my first love. Did I deserve this? It was just really heartbreaking to me.

And my dad never came to visit me. He just never showed up and let the church people decide what to do to me.   Except I was really helped by some friends I met at the training center. They came to visit me secretly at the window because I was not allowed to have visitors.

I was a victim of psychiatric medical malpractice in Cheongpyeong

I was forced and threatened at this place called Cheongpyeong, or they now call it HJ Heaven and Earth CheonBo Training Center.

The Unification Church forced me to be silent, and they traumatized me for a long time.   But now I am ready to say that I was a victim of psychiatric medical malpractice at this church-owned hospital.

Sure, misdiagnosis can happen with any condition. But what happened to me is NOT forgivable because the church doctor diagnosed me with mental illness for not attending their workshop programs at the Cheongpyeong training center. The leaders couldn’t handle me at the workshop anymore, so they decided to put me in the church Psychiatric Hospital and then lock me up there.

They kept me there so I wouldn’t be “bad” in the church again.

I am just so curious, wouldn’t this be abuse?

Yes, I will admit to being a stubborn child. I was rebellious for not listening to my parents and the leaders at that time. But the doctor was not able to realize the difference between a rebellious child and mental health problems. The doctor did not listen to me, I didn’t need their medication shots. I didn’t need them to tie me up when I refused the shots. I didn’t need their drugs to keep me numb.   This is called the abuse of power.  

Doctors should never use their status or power for anything other than helping.  The way they tried to control me with FEAR and SHAME has just left me with so much trauma in my life.

But after all these years, finally, I know that abuse is NEVER the victim’s fault.   I am totally not fine with this.

I contacted the hospital, but the doctor refused to talk to me. They are only allowing me to speak with an employee. There was NO direct apology from the doctor, but only in an employee’s email saying. “The doctor is saying he is deeply sorry if he hurt your feelings.”

They still remember and admitted to what happened. They admitted that I was hurt. How could they not tell I was hurt when I was 16?

Thankfully I have contacted the Korean Medical Association and a few of my friends have been helping me fight through this. The Korean Medical Association did try to help by warning this place, but we still need more evidence to investigate.

This is not just my story. There are real stories that other people would go missing for weeks at this workshop. The leaders are physically and mentally abusive. They use harassment and humiliation and hurt the trainees (members) until they are depressed and wouldn’t be able to talk or ask questions anymore.

Please don’t hide the truth.

Please don’t hide what happened at Cheongpyeong.

6. The Cheongpyeong experience in 1996

I first went to Cheongpyeong Lake, as it was known then, in 1996 for the forty day workshop. Back in the day it was quite primitive with sleeping facilities and lecture halls in tents. They were nice tents. I had a ‘great experience’ as the saying goes. I always do well at workshops because I am always ‘all in’.

There were plenty of Americans and Europeans at the 40 day and Michael Jenkins coordinated the westerners. We climbed the mountain every morning, read aloud in unison from Exposition of the Principle and of course the main activity was the clapping/ansu sessions. My favorite thing was when I had a chance to beat the drum to keep time during the clapping/holy song sessions. I put all my effort and energy into all the activities without hesitation. It seems that it was a time just prior to the structured ancestor liberation based on a payment schedule. We were told to liberate our ancestors through clapping/ansu/holy song sessions. I guess we were just freelancing.

Testimonies and reporting of spiritual experiences was encouraged. It was the thing to do and I, like a lot of others, began actively seeking and cultivating spiritual experiences that could be testified to. I began to imagine that I could feel and then see and hear the young Americans who came to Korea during the 1950-1953 Korean war. They seemed to be saying to me “We came here and we wanted to go home. We never wanted to die here. Don’t let us have died in vain”. Of course I assured them that they had saved Korea and saved True Parent’s life. They had not died in vain. Even now as I write this the tears are flowing. I cried and testified that I had liberated these forgotten souls. A legitimate spiritual experience or the product of group hysteria, to this day I am not sure. There were plenty of tearful testimonies during those 40 days.

Of course it was not all sunlight and birds singing. There was a lot of strange stuff going down. The night I arrived it was past ten o’clock and after registration I was sent off to find the 40 day workshop brother’s tent. Now I have never been a refuge on the run escaping dire conditions but I swear to God I know what it feels like. I got to the brother’s tent exhausted and more than a little confused. Inside the tent I encountered a mass of snoring, moaning, coughing and farting male humanity. Every square inch of floor space was occupied. They were stretched out in what we called in the Marine Corps, snot to bristle and ass hole to belly button. It didn’t matter I needed sleep. I chose a likely spot and wedged myself between two warm smelly bodies. The early morning piss calls required a mixture of delicate balance while tip-toeing through the bodies and a willingness to step on flesh when unavoidable. Good thing these were basically religious people or the temper flare ups would have surely turned to violence. In the morning the schedule began.

There was no dining hall per se at that time. All meals were set up and served outdoors in what could best be described as a picnic area. There were a limited number of tables but most people got their plate and stood up to eat. There was a vinyl tarp stretched overhead presumably to shield the diners from inclement weather. The first seven days of the workshop the weather was bright and clear and the mealtime atmosphere was festive. On the eighth day the heavens opened and the monsoon rains poured down continuously. Without rhyme, reason or explanation the same day as the rains came, the over head tarp was taken down. For the next ten days all stood in the pouring rain and bolted down waterlogged food. What did it mean? Nobody knew.

One day we woke up and the combination bath house and toilet was boarded up. Plywood was nailed over the door and windows. There was no way in. For the brothers it was a minor inconvenience and we stepped into the tree line to answer nature’s call but for the sisters it was an emergency and I saw a lot of poor souls wandering around in great distress. The bath house never reopened and a couple of enterprising brothers pried the plywood off one of the windows and we were able to crawl into the dark and retrieve our toilet kits that we had stored there. Eventually they brought in a string of porta-potties for sanitation. Again no explanation was forthcoming.

On another day we woke up and as usual we started up the mountain for prayer. To our utter astonishment the trail was gone, just gone. Where I remembered the trail had been the day before, the trail had disappeared and in its place were newly planted trees. Of course nobody knew why.

The food was also a big problem for a lot of people. The food was basic Korean fare. Rice, kim chee, soup and a few side dishes is what is served in any Korean institutional setting. There was even a little fish or meat sometimes. For Koreans and I suppose for Japanese, whose everyday staple is rice, it was fine. For westerners who are used to more variety it was sometimes unbearable. I know a couple of people who survived the forty days on only canned tuna fish bought in the store.

Likewise sleeping and sitting on the floor was painful for many westerns. I never saw a bed, chair or sofa while I was there. I later learned that Koreans LIKE to sit on the floor. They are more comfortable on the floor than on chairs. For most westerners, excluding yoga practitioners, it was a test of endurance.

▲ The phallic clock (photo above) is on the left and the large vagina is on the right.

I put up with all these things with an attitude of challenge. Hell I was an ex-marine and ex-MFT. I have slept in holes, under cars, eaten c-rations and lived off the land. There were other things that were more disturbing. We were told that our bodies were filled with, infected so to speak, with millions of tiny evil spirits. For me, at that time anyway, this was totally off the page. It was so outside of my own view of reality based on my experience in life that it didn’t even merit a response and so I ignored it.

Another thing was angels. There was plenty of talk of angels and angelic assistance. Like any refugee camp or other large concentration of unwashed humanity, communicable diseases were rampant. Except in the most serious cases people were told it was caused by evil spirits and they should work harder and shake it off. People who wanted to go into town and see a doctor were told by Mrs. Richardson that it was not advisable because the angels who were protecting us could not go outside the front gates and we would lose their protection. It was so outrageous that I laughed. What was more outrageous is that people accepted it.

One day I noticed a crowd, mostly Japanese women, gathered at the base of one of the special trees and staring up in what can only be described as rapture. I joined them and also looked up into the branches of the tree. After awhile I asked somebody I knew what it was all about. She said “look can’t you see them?” “What?” I asked. “The Angels in the tree”. I looked and looked and looked and guess what? Not even one angel. Later a photo was circulated purporting to be millions of angels appearing as points of light in the tree. It dawned on me that what was going on here was a classic case of mass hysteria. It was not unlike what happens in many religious traditions and is more about the intense desire of believers than about actual phenomenon. Think Our Lady of Lourdes, statues that weep and paintings that bleed. In a way it was positively medieval.

On my return to the States I chose to forget the strange things and use the experience as a chance for revival. In my absence the providence at Cheongpyeong grew exponentially.

7. Losing my mind in Cheongpyeong in the Seorak Mountains of South Korea

December 8, 2010

I cannot explain what I feel when I think about Cheongpyeong. I spent a number of days there, enough to understand the ins and outs of the place and understand what it does to people. I can tell you story after story. I have a bunch about ansu. Like about the woman who beat her husband with a chair during ansu or the “possessed” girl who “hache’d” (slapped the evil spirits out of the crotch) of another “possessed” girl or the time when the Korean leader beat a sister on the Chanyang team out of his own anger at the time – you get the point. Sadly, there are more, too.

I mean, Cheongpyeong wasn’t all bad. I met some beautiful people. I met people from Hungary, India, Malaysia, Austria, France, Thailand, Los Angeles, Seattle, you name it. People told me their stories and imparted global wisdom. I almost started understanding British humor and I began appreciating the ridiculous jokes of the Dutch.

I also met many women from Southeast Asia who were desperately trying to have children. They believed Cheongpyeong would cleanse them of the evil spirits that were causing them to be barren. I met many women who had cancer and felt they had no other choice and Cheongpyeong was the answer. I met people who were on the verge of divorce and felt that it was an issue with their ancestors (therefore they needed to pay hundreds of dollars to liberate as many souls from Hell as they could, while being purified of pesky demons themselves).

Is Cheongpyeong the answer for all of this? I assumed it was. We were taught that everything bad was basically due to “spiritual issues”. And Cheongpyeong could sort that out, they said.

I spent time in Cheongpyeong after I was diagnosed with “spiritual issues”. Because of my “issues,” I was sentenced to time in Cheongpyeong. Those from the offices in Korea urged me to go immediately. And I went. I even had the pleasure of having private meetings with DaeMo-nim. She counseled me on how I should ansu myself and she told me to donate money on “wish cards” that varied in color and price. The most expensive “wish card” was gold and that was the best choice (according to her). Did I believe her? I was tired. I didn’t have time to think. I think I believed her. I don’t really know. I was a zombie at that point. And then she sentenced me to more time in Cheongpyeong.

▲ Hyo-nam Kim / DaeMo-nim burning wish papers at Cheongpyeong

I didn’t exactly go crazy while I was there. I simply turned into a zombie. I lost a lot of weight, became drained of all my energy, and became desperate to be being “cured”. When would I be cured? I thought I was fine. I didn’t think I had spiritual issues. But DaeMo-nim looked into my stomach and saw selfish ancestors. I was not close to done.

I met many people who were supposedly possessed. I knew a girl who was once on STF and seemed to be a fairly normal social teenager. But she came to Cheongpyeong, began fasting and doing a lot of conditions, became a bit radical in her faith, and one day she snapped. She went crazy. She started acting like a child and became strangely awkward. She would have temper tantrums and threaten to kill people. I once even saw her consume soil while crying. I did not know what to say. I walked past her and forgot about it within minutes. Thank God Cheongpyeong owns a mental hospital right up the road. She would go every so often with the other “possessed” people.

I was confused, though. How could a girl become possessed in a place where evil spirits are constantly fleeing our bodies? How come people with “spiritual issues” would come and their “issues” would get worse? I saw people turn a bit crazy. Actually, I saw people turn intensely crazy. People were desperate, weak, and they wanted the answer.

What many of them needed was an education on chemical imbalances and some freedom from the hectic and insane environment we were in.

Over time I was becoming very desperate. I started having “spiritual experiences” daily. I wondered if my spotting “black butterflies” and seeing people melt meant I was being healed. I was told it meant I needed to stay longer. I could not afford staying any longer. I went home with no energy, life, or enthusiasm and a whole lot of guilt. Eventually, I had my big mac, hugs from people of the opposite sex, and I realized I remembered what being sane was like.

8. Soon-ae Hong (the mother of Hak Ja Han) spent two years in Chuncheon Prison after Ansu beating a mentally-ill boy to death.

All the early Korean members know that, and so have never really respected Soon-ae Hong.

▲ Soon-ae Hong in the late 1950s.

There was even an incident that occurred in 1957. An old woman, Jae-geon Kim, and Soon-ae Hong (the mother of Hak Ja Han who is currently the wife of Sun Myung Moon) were released after a two year sentence in Chuncheon Prison. The two women had been charged with beating a mentally-ill boy to death during an Ansu session. He was about 18 years old. They had guaranteed that they could cure his mental abnormality with their divine powers.

1957년도에는 이런 일도 있었다. 18세 가량의 정신이상자인 소년 하나를 김재건 노파와 홍순애 (현재 문 선명의 부인인 한 학자의 모친)여인이 자기네들의 신통력으로 정신이상증세를 고칠 수 있다고 장담하면서 지나치게 안수. 안찰을 하다 결국 맞아 죽은 사건이 발생하여 두 여인은 강원도 춘천형무소에서 2년간에

page 336 from the book:
The Identity of Sun Myung Moon (1)
by Myung-hui Kim  published in 1987

LINK to the Korean text of The Identity of Sun Myung Moon (1)

9. DaeMo-nim (Hyo-nam Kim) pours guilt on the Japanese

▲ Hyo-nam Kim / DaeMo-nim uses the story of the Korean comfort women to manipulate the Japanese members.

Introduction:

Fear, guilt and shame used to trap the Japanese members

The things Hyo-nam Kim says about the Korean comfort women need to be fact-checked. They are not as Hyo-nam Kim presents them to the members. There were few Japanese soldiers in Korea during the occupation 1910-1945. They were busy fighting elsewhere.

However, there were Japanese policemen and many other Japanese officials.
The Japanese military set up a vast comfort station network. In the 1930s most of the women were Japanese, then the military began using other nationalities. There was huge suffering and many women died. Not all those who did survive could face going back to their home countries.

However, there are other important facts. In Korea there were newspaper adverts for comfort women (the pay was exceptional), and women signed up. Most of the comfort women brokers in Korea were Korean men AND women. Many of the comfort stations in the Japanese ‘Empire’ which had Korean comfort women were run by Korean men and women. Some early books written about the comfort women have been discredited. The often quoted figure of 200,000 Korean comfort women has been discredited. The comfort women issue has been used for political purposes, especially by the North Koreans.

Two excellent books have been written by Korean professors, C. Sarah Soh (2008) and Park Yu-ha (2014).

For research documents, see:
The Comfort Women controversy

Japanese woman recruited by the Unification Church and sold to an older Korean farmer

DaeMo-nim (Hyo-nam Kim)
August 17, 2013, Cheongpyeong

“Japan’s responsibility”
“There are many of our members in the world. Why has Japan been instructed to focus on the providential mission? If you go anywhere in the world, there is no place where there are no Japanese members. Japanese missionaries have become the center of the providence.

True parents came out of the Korean people. If you look at the preparation process, Korean culture was created to welcome the Parents of Heaven and Earth and mankind who is the true Messiah. God (Heavenly Parents) raised the Korean people as pious men and women. God’s (Heavenly Parents’) providence was to bless the pious men and women and raise them up as preparation for the Messiah.

However, Satan and evil knew it [the providential plan]. From the chosen nation of the Korean people, men took women into forced labor to be comfort women. As a result of doing this, the providence of restoration has been much extended. [ Fact Check: most Korean girls and women were recruited in Korea by Korean men and women and managed in establishments run by Koreans. LINK ]

God blessed and raised the Korean people to be pious. He prepared them for the providence and brought the messiah to bless this nation and all the nations [of the world].

However, the history of restoration was delayed. A social epidemic of alcohol, tobacco, drugs and sexual problems has spread.

Before you can be blessed by God (Heavenly Parents), and go to the Blessing, you must make conditions to restore every mistake of your ancestors.”

from Mr. Yokoi (Japanese lecturer). Translated from the Japanese.

[Comfort Women – taken as prostitutes for the use of the Japanese military from the late 1930s to 1945. Most of them were Korean women. The Japanese liked the racial similarity. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women]

10. Depression and Dae Mo Nim

Posted on Done With Moon in January 2011.

It seems that a lot of testimonies I hear of how people lost their faith completely deal with Cheongpyeong in some way. I have read about this on the How Well Do You Know Your Moon blog and I have heard a variation of this testimony from several other ‘Blessed Children’ who have decided to let go of the oppressive Unificationist ideology. I personally can testify that Cheongpyeong provided me with the experiences I needed to determine whether I was to remain a faithful member of the Unification Church or leave and join the “outside world”.

After the death of a close friend, an intense depression came into my life. I had no desire to wake up or hang out with people. Everything felt meaningless. I stopped eating and lost enjoyment in all the things I once loved – hiking, reading, Gilmore Girls, and even church.

Though I began to hate church and everything about it, I turned to the picture of True Parents each morning, desiring revived hope and faith. Soon after this tragedy, my sister’s blessing broke due to her match cheating on her. I began distancing myself from everybody as I lost every single ounce of trust I once had. I no longer desired to live but I knew the consequences of my suicide, which was the subject of all my dreams, and knew that my descendants would pay. My depression and suicidal tendencies are what drove me to the strange lands north-east of Seoul.

I spoke to a church leader about the depression was I dealing with and he urged me to go to Cheongpyeong immediately. My parents agreed and I went out of my own desperateness. While I was there I saw Dae Mo Nim walking with a bunch of Japanese women trying to talk to her. I came up to her and a translator came between the both of us. I spoke some Korean but I could hardly get out a full sentence in Korean. I gave up and just poured out my heart in English. The translator relayed it all to Dae Mo Nim. Dae Mo Nim looked at me in the eyes and told me, in Korean, certain areas to “work on” during ansu. She then recommended staying for at least 40 more days.

I stayed another 40 days. I spent over 80 days in Cheongpyeong. Day after day I felt less and less hopeful. And one day, while I was praying in the prayer hall, I realized how ridiculous everything was. I was beating my body in order to get out spirits of depression. I was paying money so Dae Mo Nim could travel to Hell and free my evil ancestors. What… the hell?!

That was a few days before I hit my 80th day. I finalized the date of my ticket the day after and left with many questions and hardly any answers. I was glad, though, that I finally knew that the Unification Church couldn’t solve my problems. I turned to a therapist and I received the medical help I was in desperate need of. I’ve sorted out many of my issues, fell in love, and got a few more answers… and I am happy. I didn’t have to bruise a little Korean woman’s ass to be free of depression. I didn’t have to buy the spiritual freedom of my ancestors.

11. The Cheongpyeong Providence and the Way of Blessed Family

Published by Cheongpyeong December 25, 1999
Editorial Committee on DaeMo-nim’s Words,
Cheongpyeong Spiritual Training Center

You will be shocked if you can see spirits kick and scream. Really unimaginable things take place. Some evil spirits were recklessly fumbling with the embryo in some member’s womb. Some spirits were holding tight a leg of an unborn child, and this would have permanently disabled his leg after birth. If spirits fumble with an unborn child’s brain, he will have cerebral palsy, autism, or other symptoms after birth. These phenomena, arising from the failure to separate the spirits, are ineffably miserable. Hence, we should help the people all over the world, not to mention all our members, to understand the Cheongpyeong providence as soon as possible. Another important reason why the separation of spirits is necessary is based on the fact that the problem does not just concern our lives on earth. Living in sickness and agony on earth is a secondary problem. Without expelling the spirits from our bodies, we will be unable to enter the spiritual world properly after death. Also, when someone dies, the spirits that used to inhabit his body move over to the body of the dead person’s descendants and continue their malicious undertaking, and this is the source of hereditary diseases. Hence, separating the spirits is the foremost task to be taken up on earth. We should realize that failure to separate the spirits not only suppresses the growth of our own spirits but also leaves our offspring exposed to the plight of life.
…
As we can see, it is not easy to remove the pathogenic and fatal spirits that are parasitic on our bodies. Their plea and scream are so vehemently full of grudges and vengeance that they will not be quieted unless the most extreme efforts are exerted. DaeMo-nim explained that these were spirits of wrath who died as comfort girls [comfort women] or in forced army service [as prostitutes] in the Japanese colonial period or spirits who died unfairly as a surrogate mother in traditional Korea who had said when alive, “I will surely revenge myself even after death. I will never forgive.” These spirits cling to the members so strongly that they cannot be detached even by hard endeavor of special angels unless the people concerned repent and make pious spiritual efforts.

1) The Necessity of Separating Spirits
In removing the inhabiting spirits, absolutely good spirits and angels in Cheongpyeong work together. But angels do not remove them unconditionally; angels can operate only when our members shed tears of contrition for the vices of their own and their ancestors. The role of the angels in Cheongpyeong is to separate these resentful spirits from our bodies and lead them to salvation, a work of resurrection of life.

One of the reasons why we should dislodge the spirits from inside our bodies is that they subject us to illness and death. Even an innocent member of the Second Generation may be led away by strong spirits unawares into endangering his own life. If blessed families can see such heinous scenes, they will make all sorts of efforts to shed these spirits.
To take an example from the Japanese colonial period, Korean women taken to the Japanese army as comfort girls sometimes ran away when such a life became unbearable to them. Because they were weak women, however, they became recaptured right away and brought back, whereupon Japanese soldiers put them through all kinds of abuses. In front of many other comfort girls, they dragged the escapees by cars by pulling them on the neck as a warning that all future escapees would meet the same fate. They drove fast with the victims, and they died, with their bodies covered with blood and bones smashed. How vehement the vengeance must be, of the spirits of the women who died this way? Imagining the scene of that time will make anyone shudder and help understand these spirits easily. Through DaeMo Nim’s words, we have been able to understand the passion of the comfort girls’ spirits to satisfy their vengeance.

2. Invasion of the Spirit of a Comfort Girl
The spirits of those who were dragged away from Korea, were forced to serve as comfort girls under the Japanese colonial army, and died are spread all over Japan. These resentful spirits cause troubles among Korean-Japanese Couples such as infertility, breast cancer, and uterus cancer.

I counseled one Korean-Japanese couple. This couple could not bear a child even though they waited for a long time and came to me to receive special prayer. I found something incredible while was counseling them. When I saw spiritually the Japanese wife, she had an even more serious problem than having no children. Her uterus was in the process of rotting from its outer wall. If this process continued, her life would be threatened by uterus cancer, not to mention her being unable to bear a child. So, I quickly began to pray for her and laid my hands on her uterus area.

And I asked the spirit who was causing this infection of the uterus why. That spirit confessed that she was a comfort girl who could not bear such a life and tried to escape but was caught by the Japanese soldiers. She became a resentful spirit because she was killed by cutting off her uterus from her body. She explained that she wanted to kill this Japanese member by rotting away her uterus in order to revenge herself. The wife of that Korean-Japanese couple was a descendant of that Japanese soldier who had killed her. The condition of the uterus of Japanese wife was in shambles. I thought that sexual relationship would be impossible with this problem and asked her if she was having relationships with her husband. However, her answer was unexpected: she had thought that sexual relationship was supposed to be that painful. I felt such a pity for her after hearing this. I prayed and placed my hands on her for a long time and finally I was able to separate that spirit from her.

She was grateful that pain stopped and she felt fresh. Actually, she had had tremendous pain but could not tell that to her husband. She visited many hospitals. She even confessed that she had visited famous spiritualists and even shaman. She had lived with this illness alone, hiding it from her husband. Had she visited Cheongpyeong a little late, she could have met with a serious tragedy.

7. Evil Spirits Attack an Unborn Child
Those who are pregnant feel the joy of bearing a child but at the same time are concerned whether or not their baby will be born normal without any defects. They worry if their baby will be all right. Not only blessed couples but all pregnant mothers and fathers have this kind of worry.

There are many causes for birth defects. When I see pregnant women spiritually, to my surprise I find quite a few cases of abnormal fetus. The evil spirits in the body are holding the neck of the fetus. I saw some unborn children suffering greatly in the hands of the spirits of comfort girls. Even though I can see the womb very clearly as if on a TV screen, I have a difficulty of not being able to tell the members about it. There is a tendency in our members to listen to their doctors very well, but not the advice from the spiritual diagnosis.
I always pay special attention to pregnant women who visit Cheongpyeong. One day, seeing an unborn child in a dire situation, I prayed earnestly and pleaded with God, saying, “God, should your child be born in such a terrible form? If you can help, please help.” On the next day, I heard that the pregnant sister felt acute pain and had a miscarriage. When I visited the hospital and saw the miscarried fetus, it was severely deformed.

There are many cases among the Japanese sisters where atopy disease gets inside their womb. If there are evil spirits attacking an unborn child, there is a high probability of that child having atopy, autism, or deformity. This is caused by a deep bodily penetration of the spirits of surrogate mothers in the time of the victim’s ancestors, of comfort girls in the Japanese army, or of fornicators. I have seen that when members came to Cheongpyeong and diligently separated the evil spirits, these problem gradually disappeared.

12. DaeMo-nim speaks to pregnant women

January 13, 2013
Unofficial notes by David Carlson

Now, many pregnant sisters are here also. I can see that the baby in the womb has no ear, or one leg is shorter than the other, because Satan has grabbed that body part. But through chanyang, we can take out such an evil spirit and the baby can be born healthy. Through the Messiah, True Parents, DaeMo-nim could separate the evil spirit and could make Absolute Good Spirits. Other spiritual groups cannot do this. Only True Parents can do this! Other spiritual groups cannot do this. They may take out an evil spirit temporarily, but the evil spirit always comes back. But True Parents can make these evil spirit become Absolute Good Spirits. Because DaeMo-nim can go into the body of the person, and take that spirit out, and there is also ancestor liberation, when DaeMo-nim can go into the spirit world and educate them.

13. DaeMo-nim liberates $182 million Pine Ridge golf course.
The Sokcho Incident

The Pine Ridge Resort near Sokcho in Kangwon Province

Daemo-nim would like to thank all the Unification Church members for contributing to the liberation providence.

How could Jae Bong Kim (the husband of Hyo-nam Kim – who is also known as DaeMo-nim or Hoon Mo-nim), who in the mid 1990’s was penniless, buy up land suitable for a golf course costing tens of millions of dollars in only a few years and then spend tens of millions of dollars more to construct a super luxurious resort? Even if you asked a kindergarten child they would know this is impossible.

▲ Moon visited the Pine Ridge Resort many times. He must have had some kind of agreement that enabled Hyo-nam Kim and her husband to continue with their personal projects. It seems she financed the $1billion marble palace. Here she is receiving a necklace from Moon.

▲ The Moons wearing Pine Ridge Resort hats.

The reality in our movement is that many elderly members who have followed the providential path for many decades are spending their last days in pain and suffering because they lack any means to pay for decent medical care. Many pastors who answered the call to become ministers and served for a lifetime on the front lines of the providence are living at the level needing public welfare assistance and constantly living in fear and trembling and worry over how to come up with living expenses and tuition.

On the other hand if one looks at the Hyo-nam Kim couple’s lifestyle and the enormous wealth they have accumulated in their own private names one cannot help but wonder if they are indeed people who should be entrusted with the highest position of public trust and if they are not actually at the center of massive corruption and illegalities.

It is a fact that the Pine Ridge Resort is not listed as an asset under the Tongil Group.
see: http://www.tongilgroup.org/eng/mastart/mastart.php 

However, the Yongpyong Resort (with golf course) and the Ilsang Ocean Development are listed.

The scale of DaeMo-nim’s wealth (real name Hyo-nam Kim) and the process by which she and her husband acquired it.  

A. Hyo-nam Kim’s Residence: “Morning at Kyung Hee Palace” located in the heart of the most luxurious part of Seoul  .
The Hyo-nam Kim couple resides in a luxurious apartment located at No. 71 Naesu-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul, which is in one of the most central locations in Seoul, and which affords a direct view of the Presidential Residence. Their residence is called by the moniker “Morning at Kyung Hee Palace.” It is a 52 pyung (1,850 sq. ft.) apartment and has a market value of over 1.3 billion won (US$1,170,000). This is not a small sum. Of course this kind of apartment would be totally out of reach for pastors working in the field and elderly members living in difficult circumstances. But to Hyo-nam Kim couple this is only a peanut size asset. You may ask can this be true? I will enumerate further facts below.

  B. Kangwon Province’s Best and one of Korea’s Top 10 Best Golf Course: “Pine Ridge Golf Course”
The Pine Ridge Resort and Golf Club, boasting a 27 hole golf course, is located in Kangwon Province near Sokcho city on the eastern seaboard of the Korean Peninsula. Its market value is nearly 200 billion won (US$182 million) and the owners are none other than Daemo-nim couple (Hyo-nam Kim & Jae Bong Kim). People who are not familiar with the situation think that the Unification Church is the owner of this property but this is not the case. No matter how hard you look in the land ownership records there is no trace of any ownership by or connection to the Unification Church. But one may say in a democratic, capitalist society it is perfectly alright for people to make money doing business and build golf courses and resorts. But is this indeed the case with Hyo-nam Kim couple?

▲ Hyo-nam Kim and her husband (next to her) celebrating at Pine Ridge in October 2009. The young man on the left is probably Hyun Su Kim (Han), Mrs Kim’s eldest son. He changed his last name to ‘Han’ so Hak Ja Han could have a ‘younger brother.’ He was “adopted” into Hak Ja Han’s lineage. The man second from the right is Chang-shik Yang. He was involved in the ‘Sokcho incident’ of March 2009. (see below)

C. Deer Farm and Related Facilities in Pyongchang County, Kangwon Province
Details below

D. Kindergarten Building in Incheon City
Details below

E. High End Restaurant and Luxury Brand Shops in Itaewon, Kangnam and Ilsan
Details below

F. More Assets to be reported in the future.
In order not to overwhelm I have just reported on these five items and only going into some depth regarding Pine Ridge Resort. Next time I would like to report on more assets in some detail. There are many charming assets sprinkled throughout the country. Each one is like pretty gem. Together the value of just the properties disclosed so far comes to more than 300 billion won (approximately US$300 million).

About 20 years ago Hyo-nam Kim & Jae Bong Kim operated an Il-hwa products distribution business in Sokcho city, Kangwon Province which went bankrupt creating losses for the Il-hwa company and themselves and damaging the Il-hwa company. Even criminal complaints and charges were brought against them. So how did they manage to accumulate such stupendous wealth starting as debtors on the run with no assets, a failed business and only a pile of debts to their name? With no apparent means of livelihood or source of income did they become fabulously wealthy by winning a huge lottery? Or did they manage to hide substantial assets from their bankruptcy and creditors and invest it afterwards to make it balloon into the assets that they now have? Our investigations have uncovered that it is neither of these fanciful cases; the reality is unfortunately a shocking case of illicit activity.

What we have found is that all of the more than 300 billion won (approximately US$300 million) of wealth came from self-dealings and exploitation of corrupt practices such as illegal kickbacks and payoffs in the building and operation of the Cheongpyeong Training Center. These methods were used to create the seed capital to set up ongoing siphoning operations. Through expansion and ceaseless application of these corrupt practices they have been continuously increasing their ill-gotten wealth. Can we just stand by and watch as this kind of massive, illicit siphoning of sacred assets goes on day after day, year after year?

Hoon Mo Nim and her family must return all of the illegally and immorally acquired assets to True Mother’s Education Foundation or The World Mission Foundation or the like and if she does not the Church must reclaim them by every possible means in accordance with Heavenly law.

We remember True Parents words…
“Even after you go to Spirit World one cannot escape from the terrible consequences of embezzling public funds.”

We remember the words of Hoon Mo Nim…
“We use all your contributions down to the last 10 won coin only for public purposes.”

We remember how two corrupt public figures, former presidents Chun Doo Hwan and Noh Tae Woo, ended up.

They were made to return 100’s of million dollars of illegitimately acquired assets and received long criminal prison sentences and had to spend some years in a cold prison cell.

Further information about the ownership of the Pine Ridge Resort is below.

▲ The Moons visit Pine Ridge Resort in October 2011.

The ‘Sokcho incident’ (Sokcho is the nearest town to the Pine Ridge Resort which is where this incident happened.)

Mark Bramwell (a former European leader) wrote a report dated May 24, 2013. In it he gives more information about the ‘Sokcho incident’:

“Another disgraceful incident was the faked revelation from spirit world announcing world leadership changes on March 8, 2009. While Hyun Jin Nim was doing a global speaking tour, True Father asked him to stop and to come to Sokcho, Korea. After rebuking Hyun Jin Nim for restoring part of the HSA-UWC board of directors (which In Jin Nim had dismissed), True Father summoned Hoon Mo Nim to read her supposed “special report”, saying that this report is “the reality of the spirit world”. However, Hoon Mo Nim did not appear, so True Father asked Dr. Yang (current international vice-president) to read it, which he did. This text contained announcements of major leadership changes, such as that Hyung Jin Nim should become world president of FFWPU and Hyun Jin Nim should become Chairman of UPF.
▲ The meeting at Sokcho

Though True Father believed the text had originated from Hoon Mo Nim, Dr. Yang avoided confirming this. The astounding fact is that this text was not from Hoon Mo Nim at all, but was merely a set of reflections written down by Dr. Yang himself and reviewed by Peter Kim! Dr. Yang already had the paper in his hand at the beginning of the meeting. Later he admitted that the text actually originated from him and not from Hoon Mo Nim. After the meeting, both Hyun Jin Nim and later Rev. Kwak had a chance encounter with Hoon Mo Nim in the corridor, who confirmed, “I am not responsible for this, I did not write it”. Yet the entire world membership was made to believe that “Hoon Mo Nim’s special report” was a revelation from the spirit world, due to True Father’s comment, “This is the reality of the spirit world”.

Hyun Jin Nim was understandably deeply pained by this sham set-up, reminiscent of a communist show trial, through which major decisions impacting God’s providence were being made. He was especially grieved that True Father had been misled and his dignity insulted. After protesting to True Father, he left the room, not wanting to be a part of such dishonorable proceedings.”
(see below for a LINK to more on the ‘Sokcho incident’)

14. [Exclusive Report] Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center. Claims have been made that hundreds of billions of won ($hundreds of millions) were embezzled from FFWPU / Unification Church followers.

After the conflict among the siblings subsided, it reignites once again with internal conflict.

Weekly Today – Reporter Hyeon-jun Lee Published July 3, 2014

▲ Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center in Seorak-myeon, Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province 1. The Original Palace is close to the Cheongpyeong Lake. The new $1billion palace is high on the mountain side. Below it is a school and to the left of the school is the seminary.

▲ Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center in Seorak-myeon, Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province 2. Behind the stadium, built just in time for Moon’s funeral, is the Middle School. Far right is the Silver Town retirement complex.

The Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center, which acts as the psychological center of the Unification Church, was embroiled in a battle over the embezzlement of public funds totaling in the hundreds of millions of won (hundreds of millions of dollars).

After the passing of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the conflict among siblings, which has created internal disturbance within the Unification Church, now evolves into internal disputes arising between followers and the training center.

According to accounts from the Unification Church Followers Policy Committee (UCFPC) released on the 3rd of this month, on the 20th of last month, at the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center located in Seorak-myeon, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, a certain Mrs. “K” was given a content certified ‘a public questionnaire regarding the embezzlement incident involving funds from the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center.’

According to the public questionnaire, the training center loaned 188.5 billion won ($183.9 million) to “J” Leisure Co., Ltd., 54 billion won ($52 million) to “H” Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., and 8.8 billion won ($8.5 million) to “C” Co., Ltd., 251.3 billion won ($245.7 million) in total.

Also, 11.7 billion won ($11.4 million) was loaned to the organization, the “C” welfare foundation, resulting in a total of 263 billion won ($256 million) loaned out without any reason.

The UCFPC insists that the company that loaned the funds from the training center falls under the ownership of Mrs. “K”’s husband and son.

UCFPC states that the loan totaling in the hundreds of billions of won consists of donations made by all the Unification Church followers.

The UCFPC determined that the donations give to the training center contain the blood and sweat of the followers of the Unification Church from around the world and are not the property of a designated person, but are the public assets of the Unification Church.

One person from the UCFPC stated that “the training center is the heart of the Unification Church and the place where Unificationists from around the world flock to” adding “such a scandalous incident should never take place here, but if it did take place then it must be corrected.”

This individual also said, “if it is revealed that the training center had in fact embezzled the funds then a punishment that is equally as harsh as the crime must be given.”

Weekly Today asked on several occasions what the training center had to say, on the record, in response to UCFPC’s public questionnaire, but received no comment.

But one individual from the training center, who insisted on remaining anonymous, explained in a phone call with Weekly Today that “capital is required in the process of running projects of the public interest regarding the religious mission like the Parc development” and that “in that process an agreement was signed with the training center for the loan.”

Another person affiliated with the training center said, “we conducted an internal investigation and there is no problem with this, legally” adding, “however there are various issues with supplementing procedural matters.”

15. [Exclusive Report] Standing before the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center, Japanese members of the Unification Church demonstrated to demand the return of illegally used donations of 263 billion won.

They asserted that Hoon-mo Hyo-nam Kim’s family committed illegal bestowal, misappropriation and embezzlement.

The committee revealed that, under the Japanese legal system, the misappropriation and embezzlement was regarded as a criminal act.

▲ On the July 31 [2014], the Committee to Return Cheongpyeong Donations, which is composed of Japanese members of the Unification Church, held a demonstration next to the road in front of the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center.

Weekly Today – reporter Hyeonjun Lee Published August 1, 2014

There was a demonstration to assert the public funds of 263 billion won were illegally used by Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center of the Unification Church, and the group demanded they be returned.

The Committee to Return Cheongpyeong Donations, composed of Japanese members of the Unification Church, held a demonstration on the road in front of the Unification Church’s Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center and demanded they return the public money, disclose the amount of the public money taken, and carry out an audit.
The committee revealed that Japanese Unification Church members made astronomical donations to fund the ancestor liberation ceremonies and the ancestor blessing ceremonies at the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center over the past 19 years, since its inception.

The committee said the Japanese members had learned that the money, which was earned through their sweat and blood, would be spent for God’s providence.

However, the committee revealed that the money for the ancestor liberation ceremonies at the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center poured out into the Cheongshim group, which was a private company owned by Hyo-nam Kim, Hoon-mo Kim, and was privatized.

The committee revealed that, under the Japanese legal system, the misappropriation and embezzlement was regarded as a criminal act.

In particular, the committee emphasized this violated the three principles which the deceased Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, taught: “Don’t steal public money. Don’t commit sexual sin. Don’t hurt people.”

According to the committee, it was illegal that Hoon-mo Hyo-nam Kim, and her husband Jae-bong Kim (the CEO of the company) and her first son Hyun-su Kimhan (real name: Hyun-su Kim) borrowed 263 billion won from the Cheongshim Church and funneled it to the affiliates of the Cheongshim group of which the CEO was her first son, Hyunsu Kimhan.

This was an illegal bestowal which abused the Hoon-mo position of the Unification Church, the theological affiliate person.

The committee said they demonstrated to warn the Unification Church not to commit further crimes of embezzlement or corruption.

According to the committee, the Cheongshim Church lent 188.5 billion won to Jinheung Leisure Development, Inc. (Pine Ridge Golf Resort), the private company owned by her husband, Jae-bong Kim. The Cheongshim Church illegally lent 54 billion won to Hungil Real Estate Development.

Also, 20.5 billion won was lent from the Cheongshim Welfare Foundation and the Cheongshim Church to Cheongshim (CEO: Hyun-su Kimhan) from 2010 to 2011.
The committee said they demanded the return of the Cheongpyeong Donations to correct the bad practice and behaviors to destroy the fundamental and ideal and commit illegal acts.

The person in committee said, “I’m sorry the Unification Church is involved in in-fighting over the astronomical amount of donations.”

He said, “from now on, all church members should repent, make the donations transparent to the public, audit to see that they have been used for the right purpose, and open the results to the public. No one can spend the donations carelessly. Not anymore.”
He said, “Some Japanese members lost their homes to meet the demands for large donations and this made their life miserable. The donations were made because of a theological belief. It must never become the private property of an individual.”

He said, “This is the moment where Hoon-mo Hyo-nam Kim must make a decision. All members of the Unification Church from around the world will see the conscience of Hoon-mo Hyo-nam Kim. We suggest she accept our demands.”

The demands of the committee against the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center and Hoon-mo Hyo-nam Kim are as follows.
1. Hoon-mo Hyo-nam Kim should return 263 billion won of public money which was borrowed from the Cheongshim Church.
2. Hoon-mo Hyo-nam Kim should reveal the Cheongpyeong donations, which were collected over 19 years up to the present, and make public the records of how the money was used.
3. Accept an internal audit of Cheongshim group affiliates, which were established as the private companies of Hoon-mo Hyo-nam Kim.
4. All corporate bodies of Cheongpyeong should undergo an external audit by third party agencies which have public confidence, and reveal the results to all members of the Unification Church.

16. The Official Document on Hyo-nam Kim’s Dismissal

17. “The Angels and Absolute Good Spirits have left Cheongpyeong” said Hyo-nam Kim / DaeMo-nim in 2015

▲ Cheongpyeong in the main hall of the Original Palace

Hak Ja Han will now be in charge of Cheongpyeong. In any case Hyo-nam Kim will not do any more spiritual or public work. Her photographs seem to have been taken down from the Cheongpyeong website – maybe for all languages.

In revenge [for being fired Hyo-nam Kim / DaeMo Nim] seems to be saying that the right [to liberate spirits at Cheongpyeong] has been taken away.

She said: “There are no angels or good ancestral spirits (Absolute Good Spirits) at Cheongpyeong.”

そういった利権を剥奪された腹いせで「清平にはもう天使も善霊先祖（絶対善霊）もいない」と言っているらしいのです。

Apparently from mid September 2015 DaeMo-nim has not been seen at Cheongpyeong workshops.

Letter from Hyo-nam Kim (also known as DaeMo-nim)

Summer 2015

…. DaeMo-nim (Hoon Mo Nim)’s work in the spirit world and physical world has been stopped, resulting in the complete loss of grace of all spiritual works performed in Cheongpyeong training center.

The current situation of the Cheongpyeong training center:

I would like to summarize the serious spiritual situations in Cheongpyeong training center informed from DaeMo-nim (Hoon Mo Nim) as following items:

1. There are no Absolute Good Spirits and angels in Cheongpyeong.

2. Evil spirits can’t be liberated by laying on of hands.

3. 1-210 ancestor liberations were stopped.

4. 1-210 ancestor blessings were stopped.

5. Consulting and separation of evil spirits for pregnant women and sick people were stopped.

6. The grace of Fulfilment Wishes Papers Prayer were stopped.

7. True Father and True Children didn’t come to Cheongpyeong in the 2015 Summer Great Works.

8. The staffs who separate evil spirits by laying on of hands became violently ill.

The Unification Church is trying to hide this information from everyone outside Korea. They need the Japanese, and others, to keep handing over their money.

4800億の絶対善霊は嘘だったようです。

The 480 billion Absolute Good Spirits seems to have been a lie!

18. Exposing Cheongpyeong

▲ Cheongpyeong tower

The Tongil Foundation exposes Cheongpyeong and sends this content to American and Japanese members!

Who Owns the Cheongpyeong Sanctuary and the Assets Derived from It? Jae Bong Kim (Hyo-nam Kim Hoon Mo) Couple?

How Did Elder Jae Bong Kim (Cheongpyeong Hoon Mo Nim Couple) Accumulate So Much Wealth? They say that it was acquired by the “Cheongpyeong Hoon Mo Nim Style.”

– World Peace Association for the Protection of Public Assets
– People’s Movement HQ to Protect Cheongpyeong Sanctuary

Contents

1. Suspicions Surrounding Hoon Mo Nim Couple

2. The Scale of Hoon Mo Nim’s Wealth and the Process of Accumulation

3. Special Report For Foundation Day : The Fallen Behavior of Hoon Mo Nim’s Children

4. Future Reports

1. Suspicions Surrounding Hoon Mo Nim Couple

Here are True Father’s words.
“I am saying that you should not listen to Hoon Mo Nim’s words.
Hoon Mo Nim acts without discussing with me.
If I act as I like without discussing with God like Hoon Mo Nim does, where would heaven and earth go?
Where does water go? It must go in reverse up to the realm of clouds in Heaven”
– Father’s Words Book 612 Page 200.-

A. The Cloud of Suspicion Surrounding the Cheongpyeong Training Center is Growing Ever Larger.

The disturbing and shocking truth surrounding the operation of what should be a sacred training center under the spiritual ministry of Hyo-nam Kim/Hoon Mo Nim for the past 20 years is becoming more and more exposed. Indications are plainly visible in many places that the donations which are the product of faithful Japanese member’s blood, sweat and tears and the donations sacrificially given by Korean members for the liberation of ancestors devotional and the precious devotion offering of the Western members for the furtherance of providence, are being improperly directed.

Through the successful Cheongpyeong providence directed by True Parents we have been able to establish the sacred Cheon Jung Goong, The World Peace Center, the Training Center, Silvertown and other properties and institutions. Hoon Mo Nim has been the leader in bringing forth this amazing providence and as a result, above all others, has received the most glory and reverential attendance. Accordingly she is in a position which must be exemplary and uphold the highest standards. But rather than being exemplary the facts and events that have emerged are cause for serious concerns that she is in reality at the heart of corruption and surreptitious accumulation of wealth. Many instances of them betraying the public trust and going against the work of Providence is evident and the legacy of the True Parents is being destroyed. If they were indeed trying to inherit God’s dream they must keep the promise of True Parents but on the contrary they have thrown away the promise and are dreaming a dream which is exactly opposite.

The reality in our movement is that many elderly members who have followed the providential path for many decades are spending their last days in pain and suffering because they lack any means to pay for decent medical care. Many pastors who answered the call to become ministers and serve for a lifetime on the front lines of the providence are living at the level needing public welfare assistance and constantly living in fear and trembling over how to come up with living expenses and tuition.

On the other hand if one looks at Hoon Mo Nim couple’s lifestyle and the enormous wealth they have accumulated in their own private names one cannot help but wonder if they are indeed people who should be entrusted with the highest position of public trust and if they are not actually at the center of massive corruption and illegalities.

2. Scale of Hoon Mo Nim’s Wealth and the Process of Accumulation

Every time that Hoon Mo Nim has spoken at important occasions she has said that the greatest cardinal sin is fallen behavior and the second greatest is embezzling public funds. It is well know that on many occasions she particularly emphasized the sin of embezzling public funds. While she has mercilessly cut off the small fry who pilfered a piece of bread at the same time it appears that Hoon Mo Nim has been, at will, buying up great big assets like golf courses and ranches and even buildings in the Kangnam district of Seoul with the funds contributed for the liberation of ancestors and for blessing ceremonies. Can she be the same person who says that spirit world is a fearful place for embezzlers? I will lay bare Hoon Mo Nim’s schemes and enumerate the larger of her assets below so that we may know who she is.

A. Hoon Mo Nim’s Residence: “Morning at Kyung Hee Palace” located in the heart of the most luxurious part of Seoul

Hoon Mo Nim Couple resides in a luxurious apartment located at No. 71 Naesu-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul which is in one of the most central locations in Seoul and which affords a direct view of the Presidential Residence. Their residence is called by the moniker “Morning at Kyung Hee Palace.” It is a 52 pyung (1,850 sq. ft.) apartment and has a market value of over 1.3 billion won (US$1.2 million). This is not a small sum. Of course this kind of apartment would be totally out of reach for pastors working in the field and elderly members living in difficult circumstances. But to Hoon Mo Nim couple this is only a peanut size asset. You may ask can this be true? I will enumerate further facts below.

B. Kangwon Province’s Best and one of Korea’s Top 10 Best Golf Course: “Pine Ridge Golf Course”

The Pine Ridge Resort and Golf Club boasting a 27 hole golf course is located in Kangwon Province near Sokcho city on the eastern seaboard of the Korean Peninsula. Its market value is nearly 200 billion won (US$190 million) and the owners are none other than Hoon Mo Nim couple (Hyo-nam Kim & Jae Bong Kim). People who are not familiar with the situation think that the Unification Church is the owner of this property but this is not the case. No matter how hard you look in the land ownership records there is no trace of any ownership by or connection to the Unification Church. Firstly, Pine Ridge, known to be one of Korea’s Top 10 Best golf courses officially belongs to a company called Jin Heung Leisure Development Corporation (hereinafter “Jin Heung”). It so happens that the chairman of this corporation is Jae Bong Kim (Cheongpyeong Hoon Mo Nim’s husband) and the auditor is Hyo-nam Kim, Hoon Mo Nim. Furthermore, the shareholders of the corporation is Jae Bong Kim and Hyo-nam Kim, Hoon Mo Nim couple. But you may say in a democratic, capitalist society what is wrong with Hoon Mo Nim couple managing their money well and doing business well and earning a lot money and doing a golf course and resort business? But the problem is is this the case? How could Jae Bong Kim, who in the mid 1990’s was penniless buy up land suitable for a golf course costing 10’s of millions of dollars in only a few years and then spend 10’s of millions of dollars more to construct a super luxurious resort? Even if you asked a kindergarten child they would know this is impossible.

If however you were to enquire about it the response you get is that chairman Jae Bong Kim bought some land in Kangwon Province some time ago but he did not have enough money to construct a golf course so he borrowed 10’s of millions of dollars from the Unification Church and afterwards he sold golf club memberships and repaid the loan. So now they are the rightful owners of the resort. This is a pure fabrication. If this is so then they must produce the original loan documents and records of receiving loan proceeds and the receipts for payment of principle and interest. If they are so upright then they should undergo an examination of the sources and uses of funds by the Korean prosecutors office. If public funds were diverted into a private company that would constitute embezzlement, if they violated the duty of their office for private gain that would constitute breach of fiduciary duty, and if they took precious, hard earned donation money given by countless family members and diverted it from its original, spiritual, public purpose that would constitute fraud and it must be investigated and prosecuted by the Korean prosecutors office.

When it became apparent that their first lame answer was problematic they changed their story about how they raised their capital. They said that when Hoon Mo Nim was developing the Cheongpyeong Sanctuary she needed many landscaping trees, especially she needed rare and holy trees beginning with the blessing trees so she traveled all over Korea searching and praying. But it turned out the trees designated and blessed by Heaven and Spirit World that she had so long searched for were located on the land owned by her husband. She looked all over the entire country but the trees she needed grew only on her husband’s property, what an amazing coincidence. So she paid hundreds of thousands of dollars (not thousands of dollars or 10s of thousands but hundreds of thousands of dollars for each tree) for hundreds of these special trees so they were able to amass the construction money to build the golf resort.

There is a saying in Korea referring to a situation like this. It goes “a deal which is good for your sister and good for your brother-in-law.” Isn’t it so nice that chairman Jae Bong Kim can build one of the most luxurious golf courses in Korea with the donation money earned by the blood, sweat and tears of our Japanese members and be called “the Chairman” by society and give interviews to the media and show off what a wealthy and successful man he is and isn’t it nice that Hoon Mo Nim and her family can live without worrying about money for generations to come because of the resort run by her husband and isn’t it a happy circumstance that she was able to find the trees selected and blessed by Heaven needed for the Cheongpyeong Sanctuary’s completion and development on her husband’s property (and purchased for such a reasonable price) and thereby contribute so much meritorious service and receive so much glory. But is self-dealing of this kind really permissible? Is purchasing trees actually worth a few thousand dollars for hundreds of thousands of dollars from your husband by attaching all sorts of providential and principle explanations a fair transaction? The Fair Trade Commission known to be the economic police in Korea must be napping these days. Or are they knowingly going to actually allow grossly unfair transactions between entities controlled by one couple to stand? What is the staff of the National Tax Office doing if not investigating a case of self-dealing like this. Shouldn’t they be investigating whether the profit tax and gift tax laws were not violated when huge profits were racked up between related parties by purchasing at incredibly inflated prices?

Furthermore when the sales of the Pine Ridge Resort memberships started not going well in Korea, Jae Bong Kim started making Japanese members purchase memberships almost by force. In the process suspicions of double selling of memberships started spreading. If there are Japanese members who have purchased a Pine Ridge Resort membership they should verify whether their membership is valid and whether they can redeem their membership for cash when they need to. Rather than contacting the Pine Ridge Resort customer center they should contact a reputable membership reselling company (Ace, Dong Ah membership exchange etc.) and see whether their membership has real value and test whether they are really able to sell it.

If Hoon Mo Nim couple have conducted their business affairs such that they would have no problem with the Prosecutor’s Office, the National Tax Office and the Fair Trade Commission then even at this time they should openly and transparently reveal their dealings before the Cosmic True Parents and the members and before Heaven and the members proudly proclaim that the resort rightfully belongs to them.

But if that is not the case then the hundreds of millions of dollars of assets rightfully belonging to the Cheongpyeong Sanctuary and the public have been illegally transferred and we urge that they return these assets to the True Parents and the Unification Church forthwith. We entreat Hoon Mo Nim couple to make restitution voluntarily and establish a beautiful tradition within the Unification Church. The Unification Church must reclaim its public assets in accordance with Heavenly law. We hope and pray that Jae Bong Kim couple take to heart that they should be more concerned about following the Law of Heaven and fear the judgment of Spirit World for it is of far greater import than fearing whether they have broken the temporal laws of the earthly world.

C. Deer Ranch and Related Facilities in Pyongchang County, Kangwon Province

In Pyongchang County of Kangwon Province a deer ranch complex called Cheonsung Aewon consisting of 400,000 pyung (14,233,200 sq. ft. or 324 acres) is also owned by Hyo-nam Kim and Jae Bong Kim. The market value of this land and facility is estimated at 50 billion won (US$46 million). An average Korean family could not even dream of owning this much property and facilities.

D. Kindergarten Building in Incheon City

A building in Incheon city used as a kindergarten school and which generates considerable rental income is also owned by Hoon Mo Nim couple. An income generating building in a major city valued in the 100’s of billion won (10’s of million dollars) is also beyond the reach of average church members.

E. High End Restaurant and Luxury Brand Shops in Itaewon, Kangnam and Ilsan

In a tree lined street in Apkujung-dong, Kangnam, Seoul a building worth many 10s of millions of dollars housing a luxury brand shop called Elbon and a very high end restaurant is owned by Cheongshim World and Cheongshim Academy (Middle and High School), companies run by Hoon Mo Nim’s son, Hyun Su Han Nim. This restaurant has two additional large main locations in Itaewon and Ilsan which are also owned and operated by the son. It seems Hoon Mo Nim’s family has taken to heart the important lesson from Jacob’s family establishing a tradition of mutual cooperation between mother and son. Only the cooperation between this mother and son is an exemplary case of diverting cash and buying up and speculating on real estate all over the country.

F. More Assets to be Reported in the Future

In order not to overwhelm I have just reported on these five items and only going into some depth regarding Pine Ridge Resort. Next time I would like to report on more assets in some detail. There are many charming assets sprinkled throughout the country. Each one is like pretty gem. Together the value of just the properties disclosed so far comes to more than 300 billion won (approximately US$300 million). About 20 years ago Hyo-nam Kim & Jae Bong Kim operated an Il-hwa products distribution business in Sokcho city, Kangwon Province which went bankrupt creating losses for the Il-hwa company and themselves and damaging the Il-hwa company. Even criminal complaints and charges were brought against them. So how did they manage to accumulate such stupendous wealth starting as debtors on the run with no assets, a failed business and only a pile of debts to their name? With no apparent means of livelihood or source of income did they become fabulously wealthy by winning a huge lottery? Or did they manage to hide substantial assets from their bankruptcy and creditors and invest it afterwards to make it balloon into the assets that they now have? Our investigations have uncovered that it is neither of these fanciful cases; the reality is unfortunately a shocking case of illicit activity.

We remember True Parents words…
“Even after you go to Spirit World one cannot escape from the terrible consequences of embezzling public funds..”

We remember the words of Hoon Mo Nim…
“We use all your contributions down to the last 10 won coin only for public purposes.”

We remember how two corrupt public figures, former presidents Chun Doo Hwan and Noh Tae Woo, ended up.

They were made to return 100’s of million dollars of illegitimately acquired assets and received long criminal prison sentences and had to spend some years in a cold prison cell.

3. Special Report For Foundation Day : The Fallen Behavior of Hoon Mo Nim’s Children

Hoon Mo Nim has spoken at the Cheongpyeong Training Center thusly, in the Unification Church the greatest cardinal sin is fallen behavior and there can be no forgiveness of this sin. Then the children of Hoon Mo Nim, Hoon Mo Nim who has bestowed upon the blessed families the great grace of liberation of ancestors and the great works of the 440 billion good spirits, surely the children of Hoon Mo Nim must be the embodiment of a life of chastity, purity and innocence. This Association would now like to introduce you to these precious children one by one.

1) Hyun Su Kim (Han)

Hyun Su Han is known to us as Hyun Su Han Nim and we are accustomed to attend upon him as Director Han (Han Shil Jang). He is the younger brother of our Cosmic True Mother and the eldest son of Hoon Mo Nim. He goes by the title of Director (Shil Jang, head of a department) but in reality he is the Vice Chairman or on the level of President of the entire Cheongshim Group and he is the heir apparent. It is said that he received the best schooling in true love directly from Hoon Mo Nim and is currently living happily with his two daughters. He has so far broken two holy blessings from the True Parents and now with the aid of the good spirits he is composing himself and steadfastly making himself ready for his third holy blessing. It is said that Hoon Mo Nim is taking such pains in the selection of the daughter-in-law that it is at the level of selecting a blessing partner for a true child. As it is the third blessing of True Mother’s younger brother one can imagine the degree of care being taken.

However, regrettably after having many sexual affairs during his marriages it seems he has really caught the bug…his journey of sexual exploits with women is known to be rather wide ranging. Beginning with entertainment celebrities all the way to female employees his searchings have ranged far and wide. It seems one must possess an assortment of experiences and abilities in order to raise the Cheongshim Group into the top level of the world. But how can such behavior be rationalized? Perhaps they might say that all of the 440 billion good spirits have run away and now 100s of billions of evil spirits have taken up residence in every cell of Director Hyun Su Han’s body and are active and this is the reason. It turns out all the boasting by Hyun Su Han?? that he has amassed 10s of millions of dollars by his business wizardry is nothing but empty talk by Hyun Su Kim! He can play the part of a capable, young CEO only because of his mother’s glorious afterglow and because of the power of the endless stream of money that they have secured for themselves. They put on a show of extravagant magnificence but it is really just a clod of vanity. Some of the businessmen in the know who occupy the buildings on that tree lined street in Seoul say once you get to know him you realize he is a real lowlife.

a) First, Physical Violence Against His First Wife.

It is reported that Director Hyun Su Han’s first wife, when she tried, through the auspices of the Church she was affiliated with in Kangdong, to see her children after the divorce, she was blocked by Hoon Mo Nim. She had not wanted to break the blessing even though she was suffering the consequences of her husband’s straying and domestic violence but Hoon Mo Nim came and forced it upon her. The first wife died and it is believed that her death was a result of these shocking events. It is really a pitiable story.

But on top of that it is said that Hoon Mo Nim became verbally abusive cursing the daughter-in-law and her son up and down saying that she knew from communicating with spirit world that they would die like a mother with a bursting belly. It is really **.

b) Second, Divorce with the Second Wife.

Director Hyun Su Han’s second wife came through the matching and re-blessing by True Mother. She was a graduate of Sun Moon University’s Purity Department but it is said that her mistreatment at the hands of her mother-in-law, Hyo-nam Kim, Hoon Mo Nim was rather severe. Truly a person who could endure such maltreatment should go to heaven…and in the end after suffering so much mistreatment and cruelty she got divorced.

The candidates to become Director Hyun Su Han’s third wife in his re-re-blessing must gird themselves and be patient…you must be deeply resolved and resigned to withstand violence and straying from your husband and the most contemporary, super strength mistreatment from your mother-in-law before you enter the blessing chapel.

c) Seducing a Blessed Child Who Was an Employee of His Company, Cheongshim?

It is well known that Director Hyun Su Han is all-powerful at Cheongshim World as the “Shil Jang” (department director) and exercises complete control over the planning and coordination department. I leave it to you to wisely determine what kind of crime it is when one seduces a young female employee through the powers of being the boss and having absolute power over work assignment and employment. It is alleged he took advantage of a pretty, sweet looking young second generation new female employee who is said to have graduated from a good college. And this was while his wife was still very much alive.

Even in the fallen world these exploits are even more ghastly than a TV drama but in the end Director Hyun Su Han will most assuredly receive forgiveness and absolution through the great grace of the Cheongpyeong providence and the 440 billion good spirits. Or perhaps there is nothing to forgive and Hyun Su Han is only finding love as he should and is living a beautifully stylish life. We look forward to him stepping up his game and bringing more glory to his family by unstintingly searching out new loves for his life. We hope that he will illustrate to the world the truth of the saying that power and straying travel together as friends.

2) The Second Son, Hyun Jung Kim

a) A Beautiful and Intense Something with a Famous Actress
They say that the second son who works as a broadcast program producer is the equal of his older brother in ability?? As a representative case in point it is said that he had an affair with a well known television actress (Miss J) of the *B* broadcasting company. [It is alleged he went too far] and when it looked like there was going to be a scandal [arrangements were made] to keep things secret. If they had that kind of hush money wouldn’t it have been far better to give it to True Mother’s education foundation? How did this secret become known? It came out from the doctor who performed the procedure. Doctors of course have alumni and networks through their medical schools. In this day and age there are no more secrets and hiding the truth is like trying to hide the sky by holding up one’s hand to the sky.

Hyo-nam Kim’s second son used to be kindhearted and innocent but somewhere along the way he started to acquire a taste for pretty girls. … And because his occupation is a broadcast company producer he is very close to the entertainment industry so he is constantly exposed to actresses, singers and models so his standards in pretty women has become exceedingly high~after the Cheongpyeong providence took off the attitude of these two sons changed. …

b) A Happy Affair with a Stewardess

They say that Hyun Jung Kim had a lovely and happy relationship with a stewardess that will be remembered for some time. When he was studying abroad he romanced this woman leading her on with expectations of marriage but in the end discarded her. His friends and people around him asked him how can a dude who is supposed to follow a religion behave like that? They were trying to tell him that if you lead a woman on for so long a decent person would act responsibly and marry her.

3) The Third Child, Daughter Hwa Young Kim

We have just received from a member this picture of Hwa Young Kim having a date when she was single. She is a second generation blessed child but since this is from before her blessing when she was still young there shouldn’t be any problems?

Hwa Young Nim, the third child and only daughter of Hoon Mo Nim, is said to have lived an enjoyable life second only to her opbas, elder brothers. The above picture is from early 2000 and shows Hwa Young Nim sharing a kiss with her then boyfriend Mr. Ahn** on campus. It is rumored that she went too far in her relationship with her boyfriend … causing a great deal of distress to her mother (Hoon Mo Nim). And it is also rumored that this boyfriend is not the only boy who was caught?? by Hwa Young Nim. There are many rumors flapping around…

Soon you will be able to see many pictures and videos of Hoon Mo Nim’s two sons and daughter in a beautiful picture album on a “Foundation Day Commemorative Hoon Mo Nim Family Special Blog” and mini home page. It will be open soon. Please be on the lookout for it.

Even more of a spectacle was when two years later in 2004 when there was a matching at East Garden for the True Family, Hwa Young Nim shamelessly attended for several days and prepared to be matched and even had one on one matching meetings with the sons of the True Family. Fortunately, her past came to light and no great misfortune fell upon the True Family. Hoon Mo Nim is supposed to see Spirit World clearly! If you wanted to become in-laws with the True Family and spend an eternity with them then why didn’t you educate your daughter properly and guide her properly so that she learned to conduct herself in a upstanding manner?

Not too long ago they held a magnificent marriage ceremony for this daughter. The banquet meal was at a hotel charging the highest cost per person and it was such an extravagant affair that members could not even dream of getting near. The members who did get an invite and went were all astounded. If Hoon Mo Nim has so much money shouldn’t it be used for the world mission?

On top of this, Hwa Young Nim is so fond of brand name products she is known as the brand name girl. She wouldn’t think of going out without her Armani dresses (running $10,000 for a less expensive one) and Cartier watches. But she has such as generous nature that at her wedding she passed out Cartier wrist watches to her closest acquaintances attending. …

How does Hoon Mo Nim explain her children who parade in brand name products on the outside but who are corrupted internally and who put on a show of being graceful and chaste to the world but who are in reality living different lives. Will she justify them by saying that while she was suffering and concentrating on bring blessings to the ancestors and realizing the Cheongpyeong providence evil spirits from Spirit World came to and invaded her children? Or will she say that her children are not to blame but the blame lies with the members? Or that her pure and innocent children were taken advantage of by other second generation children and the scoundrels of this world? Hoon Mo Nim, put your hand upon your heart and pray sincerely, go stand under the blessing trees and look up to Heaven in reverence and listen to the voice of your conscience and hear whether it says nothing is wrong.

There is a place that the money that Hoon Mo Nim has secretly stolen all these years justifying it by saying that it is by revelation from Heaven can be put to a precious use. How wonderful it would be if she would gather all this money and use it for the old age welfare of the aged elder members which True Mother has emphasized so much and it should be used for the furtherance of second generation children so that they can really study well during their school years and it should be used for the support of missions and missionaries beginning in Africa and other third world countries.

Hoon Mo Nim you should not delay any longer and return the ill-gotten public assets to True Mother’s World Mission Foundation and the Won Mo Foundation, and the Helicopter Second Generation Education Foundation.

Three million disciples and members of the Unification Church around the world are watching and waiting. Peace Productions is ready with its newest cameras to capture the scene and broadcast live when you, Hoon Mo Nim and your husband elder Jae Bong Kim, standing before True Mother, shedding tears of deep heartfelt gratitude to the True Parents for all the true love received from Them, return all the stock of the Pine Ridge Resort company, the Kangwon-do Deer Ranch complex, the Kangnam Building, Cheongshim Middle and High School, etc. They are precious Church assets worth more than $300 million dollars. True Mother is ready to give you a certificate of merit taking into consideration all the merit of your public service and your errors. How about it?

Dear readers, should we be witnesses to immorality and impropriety and act as if we saw nothing, should we hear and pretend we didn’t hear? The sky and the True Parents are not obscured merely by putting up your hand to hide them. Until the historic day when we can witness the ceremony for the repatriation of the public assets generated by Cheongpyeong under Hoon Mo Nim’s family we the People’s Movement HQ for the Protection of Cheongpyeong Sanctuary will ceaselessly continue to wage this campaign to mobilize all of our members along with all of you already working with us.

1. Follow-up Reports

Is Jae Bong Kim & Hyo-nam Kim (Hoon Mo) a “second Kwak Chung Hwan?” and is the Jae Bong Kim group going to become a second “Kwak Group?”

a. Like an investigative reporter we will uncover and expose the particulars and the circumstances of each and every stolen asset until the whole scale and network is known.

b. We will report on the entire process and practices of corrupt activities. And after exposing the full account of the corruption we pledge to you that we will work with all members to recover the lost public assets.

c. As a special report on Foundation Day and continuously thereafter we will make albums covering each and every story (beautiful, holy? and full of grace?) of the family of each of Hoon Mo Nim’s three children (eldest son Hyun Su Kim (Han), second son Hyun Jung Kim and daughter Hwa Young Kim)

d. We will answer all the questions that our faithful members are raising online through twitter and facebook online.

e. We will cover in special reports concerning the Cheongpyeong group as information and suspicions become know.

The “Cheongpyeong Hoon Mo Style” does not work any more. Who can believe the self-righteous and monopolistic assertion that ancestor liberation and salvation is only available at Cheongpyeong? Until all grievances about the Cheongpyeong group from all quarters of the world-wide Unification Church from the old time members who believe in the Divine Principle and the Holy Blessing to the neophyte member are eradicated and until all public assets derived from Cheongpyeong are returned and until the Kingdom of Heaven based on a life of faith overflowing with the Holy Spirit and a one world under God is established on earth the World Peace Association for the Protection of Public Assets will always be together with all the members.

The World Peace Association for the Protection of Public Assets, and its affiliated organization the People’s Movement HQ for Protecting Cheongpyeong Sanctuary, is a member’s association run by members and is supported by the earnest encouragement and the heartfelt prayers of the members of our Movement. We earnestly request your continued support and sharing of any information which will aid in fulfilling this cause.

▲ Cheongpyeong: the Original Palace is on the right. The hospital is up the hill.

The Pine Ridge Resort website:
http://www.pineridge.co.kr/

See:
Comfort Women Controversy

In Korean:
한인 농부에게 팔린 일본인 여성

Hong Soon-ae, the mother of Hak Ja Han, was jailed for ansoo beating a young man to death

Black Heung Jin Nim – Violence in the Moon church

Shamanism is at the heart of Sun Myung Moon’s church

Sun Myung Moon – Emperor, and God

Holy Grounds and the Shamanic Guardians of the Five Directions in Moon’s church

Shamanism: The Spirit World of Korea
Any understanding of the so-called New Religions of Korea would be difficult without some knowledge of shamanistic influences upon them.

Hananim and other Spirits in Korean Shamanism

Sun Myung Moon makes me feel ashamed to be Korean
contents:
1. Moon’s first son wrote a letter saying his father was a fraud.
2. Ashamed to be Korean
3. Sun Myung Moon: “Women have twice the sin”
4. “Japanese blood is dirty,” Mrs Gil Ja Sa Eu said
5. Moon’s Divine Principle Theory Applied
6. Sun Myung Moon’s explanation of the Fall of Man is based on his Confucian ideas of lineage, and his belief in shaman sex rituals.
7. The establishment of a worldwide government under Moon
8. Sun Myung Moon in 2012: “There is no Mother”
9. Sun Myung Moon’s words on Hak Ja Han, Justin Kook Jin and Sean Hyung Jin
10. Hak Ja Han married “God” in January 2012. Moon was furious.
11. The Sokcho Incident – the removal of Hyun Jin from the succession
12. In 2018 Hak Ja Han was questioned about the Sokcho Incident

1. I only remember going through slapping therapy once – when I was 5 or 6.