Sun Myung Moon sex scandal at Ewha Womans University as told in the Korean newspapers during 1955

Updated February 5, 2026

At least 70 Ewha Womans University students in Seoul were involved in a sex scandal with Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church (which was known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification for 20 years). Here are newspaper reports from the time. Additional photos and notes from the UC president’s diary, and other UC members, are included. There is also information about two children born during 1955. Hee-jin Moon has been acknowledged by Moon as his son. Dong-sook has been recognized as a ‘True Child’ and was known by many early members in Korea to be Moon’s daughter. There is a close family resemblance between her and her ‘father’.

▲ Unification Church members 劉景圭 유경규 Yoo Kyoung-kyu and 黄煥菜 황환채 Hwang Hwan-chae (later Hwang was one of the 36 couples) witness at Ewha Womans University in 1955. They had both joined as students at the nearby Yonsei University in Seoul. The president of the UC at the time, Eu Hyo-won, refers to them in his diary (below). The main building of the Ewha campus is in the background. Ewha was supported by the US Methodist Church.

“The adulterous escapades of the leader of the Unification Church.”

Cartoon about Sun Myung Moon from the ChoongAng Ilbo – Central Daily newspaper, August 3, 1955.

Text at the top of the cartoon: 「愚婦X文教主 = 所謂陰陽심판」
“Foolish Women X Leader Moon, the so-called Yin-Yang judgement”
lower right corner text: 社会戯評 = Satirical Social Commentary

(Yin-yang is an allusion to male-female relationships.)

Korean Taoism and Shamanism by Yu Chai-shin
(page 112)

It should also be noted that those new religions which found their origins in Christianity seem as well to have been greatly influenced by Taoistic-Shamanism. For example, the Rev. Yi Yong-do’s [Lee Yong-do] Christ-centered mysticism, which was characterised by erotic elements, seems to have been influenced by the Yin-yang principles so prominent in Taoism, and the same principles also seem to have influenced Park Taeseon’s “Evangelical Hall Movement” [Olive Tree Movement], and Moon Sun-myung’s Unification Church movement. For example, Park’s curing of sickness and driving out of devils by the laying on of hands show Christian influence, while the practice of using water for the curing of illness is a direct influence of Chinese Taoism. Moon’s Unification Church seems to have been influenced by the Yin-yang principle for sexual relations, which in turn was an influence from Lee Yong-do [1901-1933]. When Moon conducts communal marriages, he puts on a “dipper crown”, borrowing symbolism from both Taoism and Shamanism. LINK

▲ Choi Seon-gil 催先吉 was born on March 21, 1925. She was married to Sun Myung Moon from May 4, 1944 until January 8, 1957 when they divorced. She bore him one son, Sung-jin Moon 文聖進, on April 2, 1946 in Seoul. The midwife was a member of Kim Baek-moon’s church which Moon was attending at the time. Kim Baek-moon was another Korean pikareum sex ritual messiah. Choi Seon-gil was a Presbyterian and did not approve of Kim or like her husband going to Kim’s church and giving their family money to him. She despised her husband’s sexual practises. She had to endure Moon’s abandonment of her and their two month old son (Moon went to Pyongyang in June 1946 with no warning); his serial adultery; his 1948 jailing for bigamy; his illegitimate children born during their marriage; the Ewha scandal and his messianic ideas. Seong-jin was taken from her by Moon, and then put into the care of various members. She died on November 16, 2008.

How the Ewha Womans University sex scandal started.

▲ Eu Hyo-won 劉孝元

Eu Hyo-won was living in Busan towards the end of 1953 when he was shown the two notebooks of Sun Myung Moon’s 1952 Wolli Wonbon (Divine Principle). He was intrigued and hand copied the notebooks. Moon traveled to Busan on December 24, 1953 to meet Mr Eu and to hold a three day religious meeting and recruitment campaign in Yeongdo, Busan. In the end it continued for 25 days (see interview below). Mr Eu was six years older than Moon, who, significantly, put him in the archangel position so Mr Eu was required to be completely obedient to Moon (to reverse the rebellion of Lucifer). Eu Hyo-won reviewed Moon’s two notebooks and re-wrote and systematized Moon’s theology, which was first published as a book in Korea in 1957. (Mr. Eu had had a girlfriend in Seoul, Kim Joo-hwa.)

In April 1954 Eu Hyo-won traveled to Seoul and witnessed to his relative, Yang Yun-yeong, who was a music professor at Ewha Womans University; she also taught at Yonsei University. She immediately joined and started witnessing to many people, including professors and students at both Yonsei and Ewha Universities. Since the church at the time was small and shabby, she often arranged for guests to be taught by Eu Hyo-won at her home which was situated between the two universities. Kim Myung-hee, an Ewha University student, also stayed in her house when she was pregnant with Moon’s child, Hee-jin, who was born in August 1955. (Photo and further details below) Moon sent Kim Myung-hee to Tokyo to give birth to save himself from charges of adultery since he was still married to his first wife, Choi Seon-gil. And Dong-sook, widely assumed to be Moon’s daughter (and listed as a ‘True Child’) had already been born in March 1955. A second baby with a resemblance to Moon would have given further credence to the rumors of his womb-cleansing pikareum sex rituals.

The theology behind Sun Myung Moon’s blood cleansing sex rituals
(known as pikareum in Korean and chiwake in Japanese)
Sun Myung Moon gave a very sexual interpretation of the Bible. He stole most of the ideas in the Divine Principle from other Korean messianic groups, especially Kim Seong-do (who published her ideas in 1924), Kim Baek-moon (Moon spent seven months in his group in Seoul from November 1945 to June 1946) and Chong Deuk-eun (Moon spent seven months working with her in Pyongyang from June 1946 to February 1947).

Kim Baek-moon taught about a sexual union with God. Both Kim and Chong practised pikareum (pi = blood, kareum = exchange or separation). Pikareum was also known as womb-cleansing. This involved a ‘purified’ person having ritual sexual intercourse with a person of the opposite sex. They in turn had pikareum with others to cleanse them. Thus a sex relay was established to cleanse as many people as possible of original sin.

Moon was arrested in Pyongyang in 1946 and 1948 for disturbing public morals, adultery and bigamy. He was sentenced to five years in Heungnam prison. The woman Moon married on February 22, 1948, while he was still married to his first wife, was Kim Chong-hwa. She was married with three children. She was jailed at the same time as Moon, but she was released after a year and then moved to Seoul. There her husband accepted her back – she was deeply grateful to him.

Ruth Tucker, PhD, has written about Moon’s sexual theology.

Two of Moon’s sons, Kook Jin ‘Justin’ Moon and Hyung Jin ‘Sean’ Moon have publicly declared in videos that Moon had sex with ‘six Marys’ and many more women to cleanse them of original sin. The sons stated that the more women their father had sex with, the better. It was the quickest way to cleanse mankind from original sin.

See also the notes from official Unification Church workshops on the Theology of Pikareum held in Japan in the mid 1980s and early 1990s.

Taught at Family Federation for World Peace and Unification workshops in the past decade:

“The Purpose of God’s Providence of Salvation is to end the journey of God’s sperm.”

This is the theological background to the sex scandal involving the female students at Ewha.

▲ Professor Yang Yun-yeong 梁允永 (or 梁尹永).

Han Chung-hwa 韓忠嬅 joined in October 1954; she was the second Ewha faculty member to do so. She taught English and was the Dean of the dormitories – they represented another world on the Ewha campus. There were three houses in the dormitory: Truth House, Goodness House, and Beauty House. (Sa Gil-ja was student head of Truth House and she used her position to witness.)

▲ Samuel, the son of Ewha Womans University Professor Han Chung-hwa 韓忠嬅, with a church member outside the Cheongpa-dong UC in Seoul. 서울教會

Professor “A” from Ewha was interviewed in 1993: “A long time ago, there was such an incident at this university, but today the students have no idea about it. I remember it because I was a student at this university at the time. There was a female professor of English, Han Chung-hwa, new that year, who was teaching the principles of the Unification Church in the classroom as well as in the women’s dormitories. In the women’s dorm they were lighting candles and dancing. It was very contagious and affected other professors and many female students, and it became a big incident.”

Seo Myung-jin 徐明鎭, a student: “Professor Han was the wife of a member of the parliament who was abducted to the North. She had a great faith. As her husband was taken to the North, she never stopped making tearful prayers. As the dormitory dean she had to wake up earlier than the students. She prayed tearfully for the people. When the students came for the early morning prayer at 5 am, she prayed with them in tears and through this moved and changed us.”

Sa Gil-ja 史吉子, a student: “Also I heard that the English literature professor [Professor Han] who had, until a short time before, been the house mother of our dormitory was going there. During the Korean War her husband was kidnapped by the Communists. She lived only for the coming Lord, and her faith was such that she had many spiritual experiences. Every night she would battle with armies of satans.

She would wave a cutting knife around and in a loud voice pray in tears. She would gather us for early morning prayer meetings, and tell us many things we couldn’t comprehend about the spiritual world. Somehow my heart was attracted and I faithfully attended every morning. Because of her almost insane life of faith, she was finally removed as house mother of the dormitory. Once she began attending the Unification Church, however, I could not help but be amazed at the change that came over her. Before, because she said she was a sinner, she never used makeup and never cared how she dressed, but when she began going to the Unification Church she began to dress neatly and even began setting her hair, her face was full of hope, and her attitude always joyful.”

▲ Mrs. Kim Jeong-ok 金貞玉 was interviewed in 1993. LINK

Mrs. Kim Jeong-ok (At the time, in 1955, she was Dean of the Student Ministry at Ewha W.U.): “Han Chung-hwa’s husband had been abducted in North Korea, and two of her children were both plagued by serious illnesses. She had met Sun Myung Moon in Busan. He had told her that if she offered everything to the Unification Church, her husband would return and also her children’s illnesses would be healed. I heard that subsequently she became a fanatical member. I heard her lecturing about the Unification Church in the dormitory and in the classroom, so I scolded her. I told her that this Methodist school did not permit her to lecture about the Unification Church in the classrooms and dormitories. I also said that Christianity was not taught in a temple. She retorted, “One day those of you who do not believe in the Unification Church will go to hell”. The next day she submitted her letter of resignation.

▲ Professor Han Chung-hwa may be in the back row on the right. Professor Choi Won-pok is on the far right. The photo was taken in May 1956 at the Cheongpa-dong church, Seoul.
Inset on the right: Samuel, the son of Professor Han, with a church member.

“About ten years later Han Chung-hwa came to visit my house. She was shabbily dressed. She told me she had left the Unification Church. She was crying as she explained, “I dedicated my house and land, and all my deposits to the Unification Church. Still I am without my husband and my children did not recover from their illnesses.” A few years later she died.”

Some girls accepted her “teaching” and they joined the Unification Church. One has to wonder what fate was waiting for them.

Pak Chung-hwa: “For example, the head resident of Ewha Womans University, Han Chung-hwa was seduced by Mr. Moon and she became addicted to the sex frenzy. I witnessed the pikareum return ritual between Mr. Moon and Han Chung-hwa at that time. Han was then a widow with a deaf son. She was a devout Christian, but she became Mr. Moon’s sex slave. She was happy doing that, thinking that it was God’s will. When she found out that Mr. Moon had many other women, she left Mr. Moon and had an operation on her uterus because her body had become dirty because of Mr. Moon. She died a few years later, full of regret about her imprudent sex frenzy with Mr. Moon.” From Tragedy of the Six Marys, Chapter 5.

Kim Sang-hee 김상희 (from his book, Unfinished History – in 1955 Ewha Womans University expelled 14 students. published in 2015):

▲ Choi Won-pok 催元福

“After Yang and Han, in December 1954 Choi Won-pok was the third to join. In 1950 she had been accepted to the faculty exchange program sponsored by the US State Department and studied teaching technique and English language at Michigan University until 1952.

After returning home, from 1953 she served as an associate professor of English literature and the dean of students of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Ewha W. U. As the university was founded by the Methodist Church, she was required to give sermons to students quite frequently, which made her begin to study the Bible. However, the more she studied it, the more questions she had. She ardently prayed for answers only in vain. She struggled with Biblical contents that are against reality and logic. It was during this time that she was led by Han Chung-hwa to the Unification Church and heard the Divine Principle (Family Federation History Committee 2006: 36-37).”

It appears, however, that her conversion was due more to spiritual experiences than to the rational persuasion of the Divine Principle.

After she was expelled from Ewha, Mrs Choi taught at Seoul Women’s Medical School (now Useok University) from 1956 to1958.

Moon spoke about Mrs. Choi:
Ceremony for the Total Dissolution of Resentment
May 1, 1975, Cheongpyeong Lake, Korea:
“Mrs. Choi Won-pok stands in the position of a mother and true woman in the fallen world. In this ceremony she will establish the condition to indemnify all the failures of women in history. So the spiritual world and the fallen world up until today must all be indemnified centering upon Mrs. Choi.”

Mrs Choi wore the same crown as Hak Ja Han for a number of important ceremonies. She was known as “Second Mother”. Moon claimed to be restoring Jacob’s course. Jacob had two wives, Leah and Rachel. Moon regarded Mrs Choi as being in the position of Leah, and the younger Hak Ja Han as in the position of his Rachel wife.

On June 13, 1998, Moon married her to the spirit of Buddha in Madison Square Garden, New York.

Meanwhile, to stop the rush of the faculty members and students to the Unification Church, in December 1954 President Kim Hwal-lan commissioned Kim Young-oon, who was teaching the history of Christian culture, to listen to the Divine Principle and produce an official critique to prevent anyone else falling prey to the group. Kim was the most knowledgeable professor in the field of theology at Ewha W. U. and was respected for her intellect, character and faith.

▲ Kim Young-oon 金永雲

Kim Young-oon was rational and sharp, so much so that she was called an “ice woman” at Ewha.

Chung Dae-hwa 鄭大和 : “Teacher Kim Young-oon taught the history of Christian culture. There she taught the Bible. I had heard all those words in the church before, but her teaching was so spiritual. She would not give lectures unless the atmosphere was really quiet and full of grace.”

When Kim Young-oon was about 18 or 19 she heard Lee Yong-do preach in the town where she was working. This left a lifelong impression on her. She graduated from Kwanso University in Japan in theology. In 1948, with a scholarship from a Canadian mission, she did a master’s degree in theology from Emmanuel College and an honorary doctorate in humanities from the Lecol College, University of Toronto. In 1954 she was not in good health, as she had been hospitalized for three weeks for stomach cramps (or nephritis). Nevertheless, she went to Professor Yang’s house and listened to Eu Hyo-won’s lectures.

Eu Hyo-won: “In North Korea, long before the Korean liberation, many spiritual people prepared for the coming of the Returning Lord working with the spirit world. Among them there was someone who came with the mission of John the Baptist, and his name was Lee Yong-do. He gave powerful sermons. … Anyway, Professor Kim Young-oon used to follow Rev. Lee. After she joined the church, a pastor friend of hers, whom she loved most, wrote her to warn her about the Unification Church. He said that the Unification Church had twelve stages; Professor Kim was only at the third or fourth stage, and she would see everything when she went up to the twelfth stage. This shocked Professor Kim and made her pale with anxiety. She could not speak to anyone, and she could just pray.

▲ Lee Yong-do 李韻道

But one day Rev. Lee appeared to her and reminded her of how he had died. How did he die? When he pulled in many Christians through revivals, the established churches united to accuse him of sexual promiscuity. So he suffered under the heavy weight of worries and died [of tuberculosis] at the age of 33. He said to her that she knew he was innocent, and now Rev. Moon was being accused just like him; hence, she should follow Rev. Moon until the end in order to find her path of life and also help Rev. Lee partake in the benefits. This relaxed her.”

At the beginning the lecture did not progress well because Professor Kim frequently interrupted with questions. However, Mr. Eu was very patient.

Kim Young-oon: “After returning home [after being in hospital] I visited the house where Reverend Moon was teaching and heard lectures on Divine Principle. From two o’clock in the afternoon I heard the message. The first part was very much like what Swedenborg said in his book, particularly in his “Divine Love and Divine Wisdom.” It was very much like. So I asked him, the leader, “Have you read Swedenborg’s book?” He said, “No, I have never read it, but I saw him several times in the spirit world.”

Who is this, to meet Swedenborg so easily? Then he said after he detected in me how much I admired Swedenborg, he said, “Swedenborg is not in a high position as you think, and what Swedenborg said is mistaken, 80% is mistaken.” What? I thought Swedenborg was absolutely correct and right. If Swedenborg was mistaken, then the foundation of my faith is shaking. I was rather displeased with this statement, but I was curious to know more about this. Then he continued and continued the lecture. It was very different from what I had been studying and teaching, so I told him, “I just can’t take any more. Therefore, please tell me the source of this revelation, how you have received this revelation Unless you tell me this, I cannot continue. I cannot take it. It is so different.”

On the third day I was completely healed of my lingering illness. The night before my healing, the inner voice of God had spoken again: “It was I who led you to Jesus, it was I who led you to Swedenborg; it was I who led you here.” During the last four days of my week-long visit to the center, I heard the testimonies of some members and most significantly, the life story of Reverend Moon. I had been moved by the Principle of Creation, because it was close to Swedenborg in its concepts of polarity, the stages of growth, and the unity of the physical and spiritual dimensions. I was, however, stymied by the fall of the archangel, how could this be? The Divine Principle’s Christology was also unsettling, as I then agreed with Swedenborg that Jesus and God were one and the same. I was, nevertheless, deeply touched by the astonishing conclusion that God had chosen a Korean who was my contemporary.”

Some of these Kim Young-oon quotes are from the testimony she gave in Sacramento, USA, on August 24, 1963. LINK
and “The Rev. Sun Myung Moon I Know” LINK

▲ Sun Myung Moon and Kim Young-oon in Korea in 1959.

Kim Young-oon decided to follow Sun Myung Moon in 1955 – but it ended in flames and tears.

In Korea on November 4, 1964 Moon married her to Mr. Ahn (M.D., PhD.). The marriage lasted less than a year.

In 1959 she flew to the west coast of the US as a missionary. From 1975 on she taught Systematic Theology at the Graduate School of the Unification Theological Seminary in Barrytown, New York. She wrote many books about the theology of the Unification Church, and a series on World Religions. She has been called ‘the brains behind Moon’ and she did comment on his ignorance, for example his assertion that Buddha came from China. She kept Moon’s core teaching of pikareum coded in her writing and completely hidden in her teaching. She was known to secretly sacrifice chickens in shaman rituals in the US.

Lee Yong-do was known as the father of the Korean mystical heretics.

▲ Lee Yong-do 李韻道 is on the right, next to him is Park Seung-geul 朴承傑. Behind them is Lee Ho-bin 李浩彬 who Sun Myung Moon 文鮮明 asked to officiate at his marriage to Choi Seon-gil 催先吉. Choi’s mother, who was a fundamentalist Presbyterian, disapproved of Moon’s religious beliefs.

Japanese Religions Vol. 9 July 1976 No. 2
A magazine issued by the NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions
The Korean Background of the Unification Church
by Chun Young-bok 田永褔. Secretary of the Evangelical Department of the General Assembly of the Korean Church in Japan. Presentation given on Nov. 10, 1975.

Rev. Chun Young-bok writes of his personal experiences at Lee Yong-do meetings: “I often went to these meetings when I was young. The pastor was an enthusiastic and eloquent preacher and advocated a peculiar interpretation of the Bible. During the meetings he used to roll up a newspaper and go around saying, “Satan, get out! Satan, get out!” while the congregation was praying in a state of ecstatic shaking. This movement advocated the so-called “restoration of the original state” before the fall of Adam and Eve. The congregation was dancing around and crying for the return of Eden. And when the pastor cried, “Adam and Eve were naked before the fall! Take off your clothes!” the men turned to the women and stripped off their clothes, and they danced around naked.”

Kim Sang-hee: “In addition, Rev. Moon himself directly participated in the Ewha Womans University mission. Once a week (around Wednesday) he came to Ewha W.U. and looked around, and then taught students from Ewha W.U. and Yonsei University in Kim Young-oon’s house.”

Lee Jung-ho (Professor of Korean language and literature, dean of the department).

Sermon given by Eu Hyo-won on October 16, 1963 in Daegu church. (Note, Mr Eu or church translators, sometimes changed the gender of the staff at Ewha, and others, from female to male. They never changed the gender from male to female. It is not clear if Professor Lee was female or male.)

“Professor Kim Young-oon thought now about who would receive the Divine Principle and picked Professor Lee Jung-ho. He is now a dean of a university somewhere. He does not come to our church now, but is helping us just like a member. He was at Ewha at that time (1955). He was different because although he was a Christian, he also went to Buddhist temples. Professor Kim approached him and said, “There is a peculiar religious sect in town. Would you like to visit them?” He was studying various doctrines. So his ears perked up when someone with a deep understanding of Christianity came and said that the Divine Principle resolved difficult problems of the Bible and other problems as well. At that time, we asked the visitors to stay at least for three days. The newspapers said that we detained people for three days and worked on them, didn’t they? … If you are roasted in that spiritual atmosphere just for three days, you cannot but give in. If we do it like this, everyone who comes will surely fall into our net.

When Professor Lee Jung-ho was asked to stay for three days for the lectures, he gladly agreed. So that university professor came to the church with his mattress and luggage. That was a sight. He was not an ordinary person. It is not a normal thing for a dignified professor to go to a controversial church carrying a mattress and a bag. Now he started listening, and then surrendered after listening to the Principle of Creation. He said it was good enough. Why good enough? He then told us a story of his life of faith. He said although he was a Christian and accepted the Bible as truth, he studied yukhak (Theory of Changes) and found it to be true as well. … He went to the mountains to study it, and he found it to be ineffably true. This made him wonder why the two truths could not be united. In Christianity you cannot even mention the word yuk. They believe that it is a big superstition, and God will punish them if they went near it. They think just talking about yin and yang will get them into big trouble. They must think yin and yang is only about the man and woman relationship.

But Professor Lee found yukhak, based on yin and yang, to be truth. Especially, jungyukhak says that a great man will come to Korea. It also carries the revelation that the human ancestors fell by illicit sex. … So jungyukhak contains prophesies about what will come to pass in Korea. He knew that the great man must have a truth that endorses and reconciles Christianity and yukhak. When he heard the Divine Principle, he saw that it is that truth. So he clapped and slapped his lap.

With him we had five high-ranking faculty members, and this shocked the university. The students were flocking to our church. On a day their number could be as high as thirty. So the university put a guard at the gate. But the students passed the guard with excuses such as going to a public bath. On Saturdays their number could be as many as thirty. The number of student visitors was increasing, and it was powerful.”

Following is Mrs Kang Chung-won’s testimony given in 1980. She was one of the 36 couples:

“My name is Mrs. Kang and my husband is Rev. Lee [Jae-suk] who is President of Super Denomination in Korea. I joined the Unification Church in November 1954 in Seoul. When I went to sleep on September 13, 1954, I heard a loud voice [in a dream] and I saw a bright light. The voice said “These are the last days. It is the age of the Father.” …

In October a professor of English joined our church. [This must be Han Chung-hwa.] At the end of her lectures, she began to tell her students a little about Divine Principle. What the professor told us was exactly what I had been wanting to hear. [Professor Han] told me that she would introduce me to someone who could solve all my problems. … When I first came to the Unification Church, President Eu [Hyo-won] taught me the Divine Principle. During the lecture, Father took a piece of paper and began drawing diagrams and explaining the Principle to me directly.

In the winter of 1955 the university was on vacation but many students continued to come to listen to lectures. After classes began again in February, 50 to 60 students would come to our church each day.

After Sunday services Father would climb the hill behind the church with many university students. There he would talk to us about the world of the future, the problem of Communist China, the problems in South-East Asia and America, the energy crisis, the food crisis, the breaking out of diseases of unknown origin and other things. He would work out any problem that was troubling us young people. Because of this, it was inevitable that this truth become very popular among university students.

Because we followed Father so fervently people at school and in society began to spread many lies and to oppose us. They spread rumours such as that we had electrical systems and that we danced in the nude. These were completely incredible to any intelligent person. The rumours about dancing in the nude came from people confusing us with another spiritual group which had danced like this thinking that their original sin had been forgiven and that they no longer had to feel shameful about their bodies.

[After 14 of us were expelled from Ewha] we went to see Dr. Helen Kim, the Dean of Ewha Womans University, but she refused to talk with us saying that we had curtains over our eyes. She said we had gone crazy.

After that incident [the arrest of Father on July 4th] we were always followed by the police, we were ridiculed by society and we had been expelled from school.”

Since several hundred students were visiting Moon and the Unification Church, Ewha Womans University took action to protect its students. Seo Eunsook, the student affairs director, organized interviews with the students.

Professor Kim Ok-gill taught the history of Christian culture. She was a good person, and later became the university president. Kim had learned about Sun Myung Moon’s activities and their consequences in Pyongyang through her middle school friend Kim In-joo.

Kim In-joo had joined in Pyongyang in June 1946 and was a great believer in Moon’s pikareum womb cleansing. At that time he only wore white clothes, as did his followers. It was Kim In-joo who persuaded Eu Shin-hee to go through the sex ritual with Moon.

Professor Kim Ok-gill explained the facts to the university president, Professor Kim Hwal-lan (Helen) and other members of the university leadership.

Hagiwara Ryo:
最初の逮捕は一九四六年八月一一日。文鮮明は、混淫による社会秩序混乱容疑で大同保安署（警察署）に三ヵ月拘留されたのについで、一九四八年二月二二日、またも主婦・金鍾華さんとの強制結婚事件で内務署に逮捕された。……四月七日懲役五年の判決を受け、文は、興南刑務所に服役することになった。
“Sun Myung Moon was first arrested by the security police on August 11, 1946. He was detained for three months at the Daedong police station [in Pyongyang] on the charge of causing social disorder, for alleged sexual immorality. On February 22, 1948 Sun Myung Moon was arrested for a second time by the Ministry of the Interior [not the Interior Department] for his coerced marriage with a married woman, Mrs Kim Chong-hwa. On April 27 he was sentenced to five years in Heungnam prison.”
The Life of Sun Myung Moon – the Messiah of a Perverted Sex Religion (1991) page 70 LINK

Moon was arrested in 1946 for “swindling under the pretext of religion” and adultery. In 1948 Kim Chong-hwa, who was married and had three children, was also jailed. She never wanted to see Moon again, and was so grateful to her husband who took her back.

▲ Professor Kim Ok-gill 金玉吉 talking with Ewha students on campus some years after the 1955 scandal. She was the Ewha president from 1961-1979.

When Professor Kim Ok-gill interviewed Shin Mi-shik, she said: “You guys don’t know. You guys don’t know Moon Sun-myung’s background, how the Unification Church started in the North [in Pyongyang] before it came to Busan and Seoul, and what kind of problem they caused there. So you don’t know the depth of the problem and how heretic they are.”

Sa Gil-ja was an Ewha W. U. student who joined the Unification Church in March 1955. (In 1960 she was married to Eu Hyo-won, the UC president.) When numerous students and several professors became UC members, they were given an ultimatum: Leave the Unification Church or leave the Ewha University. The following is a composite from her essay, ‘My Testimony’ (at UTS, pp. 26-30) and an interview she gave to Kim Sang-hee on December 9, 2010:

“Among the three hundred fifty students in the dormitory, more than a hundred went and heard Divine Principle.
Finally the decisive day came. A teaching assistant sent by the Dean of Students came to the dormitory and said, “I want all of you who are going to the Unification Church to gather immediately!” When we had gathered she handed out a questionnaire with ten questions on it. . . . fourteen of us were called to the office of the dean of students. The dean told us, “the Unification Church is heresy … You musn’t go there.”

“Seo Eunsook, the student affairs director, said to us, “You guys danced naked, too, didn’t you?”
So I said, “Maam, we don’t even dance wearing our clothes. Is place some kind of a dance hall? If I wanted to dance, I would go to a dance hall; why would I go there and dance in the name of the Lord?”
But she said, “That’s not true. You don’t know because you’re not in very deeply yet. If you keep going, they will make you take your clothes off and dance.”
… I found out later, however, that there had been a spiritual group in North Korea which really had danced in the nude. … This is the group that Mother’s mother, grandmother Hong, entered.” [‘Mother’ is Hak-ja Han; and her mother’s name was Hong Soon-ae.]

The members of the Sungjoo Church [The Holy Lord Church] did dance naked. … Kim Seong-do received the revelation that the human fall was cased by sexual promiscuity and Jesus would return to Korea in the flesh. So when I told her that these points were central tenets of our church, she figured that we were with those who danced naked. … At that time, they wore no underwear. They danced a lot, singing that “Thank You Song”. As they danced and danced and got totally into dancing, their pants came down without their knowing, and their lower bodies became naked. Then they said, “Oh yes, in the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve were naked but were not ashamed. Now that we have received words of life through the new Lord, this is the Garden of Eden. So let’s go ahead and dance naked.”
So they took off all their clothes one by one, incurring severe consequences. As they sang and danced like crazy in their courtyard and even outside every day, people reported them to the police. The Japanese police took them away and beat them. But they were soon released because they had done no anti-Japanese activities.
From that time the story of Sungjoo Church members dancing naked spread. As their doctrine converged with the three most important points of our Divine Principle, we got falsely accused for naked dancing.”

So one day Father said to Chung Sugon, a daughter of Kim Seong-do, “Chung Sugon, it is you who danced naked, but the accusation [that we did the same thing] came down to us Unification Church real hard. Tell us about it here,” and she told the story in tears, explaining why they danced naked…”

▲ Kim Seong-do 金聖道, founder of the Holy Lord Church.

Kim Seong-do’s group all joined the Unification Church!

Sa Gil-ja explains more about Kim Seong-do

A US FBI report on Sun Myung Moon contained a letter from the Church of the Nazarene in Seoul. It gives an interesting summary of the official and the unofficial theology of the Unification Church. Here is the unofficial part of it:

“The letter additionally states that the group also secretly observes such other beliefs and practices as the following:

1) Founder Moon is the Second Advent Jesus.

2) A believer receives a spiritual body by participating in a ceremony known as blood cleansing [pikareum = blood exchange, pi = blood] which is for women to have sexual intercourse with Moon and for men to have intercourse with such a woman. This idea of blood cleansing comes from the teaching that Eve committed immorality with the Serpent and she passes on to all of us serpent blood.

3) Secretly observed doctrines are Holy covenant and are of more value than the Bible.

4) Members who have experienced blood cleansing can produce sinless generation [children].

5) Founder Moon is sinless.” LINK to the report

Other US diplomatic cables from Seoul reported, “the church interprets the Bible in sexual terms and maintains that religious experience is interrelated with sex. MUN Son-myong (sic), leader of the church, was once arrested because of the sexual practices of the organization.” (Chicago Tribune, Monday, March 27, 1978)

▲ 한국어: 김활란 이화여대 총장과 김옥길 교수(앞에서 부축받는 이가 김활란, 뒤편에 성서를 왼팔에 낀 이가 김옥길), 이화여자대학교 본관 입구 계단에서

Professor Kim Hwal-lan, Ewha Womans University President from 1939-1961, and Professor Kim Ok-gill (walking behind her, holding a Bible in her left arm). Professor Ok-gill was president after Professor Kim Hwal-lan.
– Photo taken in 1959.

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

Choi Soon-shil, the sister of Soon-wha, and the two professors were interrogated by the police during the 1955 Ewha scandal. In his journal Eu Hyo-won mentions seeing them at the police station when he was also arrested.

The scandal was covered in many Korean newspapers from March to October, and there were some reports in the Japanese press.

May 15, 1955 Pyunghwa Shinmun
“An untimely religious crisis at Ewha Womans University”

May 16, 1955 朝鮮日報 Chosun Ilbo
“An expulsion crisis at Ewha Womans University”

May 1955 …보

梨大에除籍沙汰邪敎徒라고敎授學生17名
이대에 제적사태 사교도라고 교수학생 17명

In the Ewha (Womans University) expulsion case: 17 professors and students labeled as cult members.
“邪敎徒” literally “believers in a heretical religion” or “cult members”

Excerpts from Eu Hyo-won’s 1955 Diary

He was born on September 25, 1914 in Chungjoogoon, Pyungbook.

The Unification Church wrote about Eu Hyo-won: “He systematized and preached Father’s [Sun Myung Moon’s] words and wrote Explanation of the Principles in 1957 (the first printed work on the Divine Principle) and Discourse on The Principle in 1966 (translated into English as the Divine Principle). [He was married to Sa Gil-ja 史吉子 in 1960.] He died on July 24, 1970. In his position as president of our family in Korea for 15 years, he wrote almost daily in his diary.”

The following extracts from Mr Eu’s diary (published in Tong-il Segye, July 1980) were translated by Hwang David Kwanil. [Some names in the diary have been re-translated, or completed, based on other sources and photographs from the period.]

“May 11, 1955
Lecturing all day to people whom Kyoung-kyu [Yoo Kyoung-kyu 柳景圭, a student from Yonsei University – in the top photo] led to the center. Four people from Ewha University were expelled from the dormitory. I came downstairs and saw Gil-ja [Sa Gil-ja, later the wife of Mr Eu Hyo-won], Mong-sa, Mee-shik [申美植 Shin Mee-shik, later the wife of Papasan Choi 崔奉春] and Myung-jin [Seo Myung-jin 徐明鎮, later the wife of Hong Chong-bok 洪鍾福 ] eating.

May 14, 1955
Fourteen students were expelled by the Ewha University administration. The students seem to be very firm in faith. At 9:30. I asked Gil-ja and Mee-shik to come over for an interview with Seoul newspapers. I was lecturing to six new students from Ewha. I asked Teacher [Sun Myung Moon] to talk to them while I was gone.

▲ After their expulsion, the students managed to meet President Kim Hwal-lan on May 23, 1955. She stood by her decision. This picture was taken on campus after the meeting.
(Top from left) Seo Myung-jin, Lee Gye-soon*, Sa Gil-ja, Chi Saeng-ryeon**, Park Young-sook, Kang Jung-won and Chong Dae-hwa (who was later married to Kim Young-whi)
(Bottom from left) Choi Soon-wha (the mother of Sam Park), Yim Seung-hee, Kim Jung-eun, Shin Mi-shik (later known as Mamasan Choi) and Park Seung-kyu.

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

** Before Chi Saeng-ryeon joined she was known as Chi Mal-sook, and after she moved to the US in 1973 she was known as Mal-sook Lee.

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

Eight of the expelled students entered other universities in 1956.

July 4, 1955 (day of great persecution)
Today I determined to die seven times. In the evening, the newsmen came again, scurrying around, taking pictures of Teacher [Moon]. Shortly afterwards, Investigator Oh and Chief Investigator Kim came over to ask Teacher to come to the [police] station in order to tape an interview. Kim Young-oon and I followed them. We went into different rooms. We were told to go back home. Mr. Oh almost pushed us to the gate. Our family was there. Then we went back with them. So I was right when I thought today was persecution day.

July 5, 1955
Teacher [Moon] didn’t come back. … Tong-hi came in. He brought with him the newspaper Pyung Who. Our beloved was arrested. The time has come. Now we have to face what we are supposed to face. … We bought all the newspapers. The story in the papers was very dirty, but through dirty things we can have fertilizer.
When I went to a special investigation room, I saw Kim Won-pil 金元弼 being interrogated. Because of age problem [he had lied about his age to escape the military draft in 1951], the investigator was slapping him. It was a different feeling from what I felt in the tearoom. We were interrogated for evading the draft and for illegally confining people.

July 10, 1955
After I preached the Sunday sermon … Investigator Oh and Chief Investigator Kim came to arrest me. So I changed clothes and prepared to go. When I got there, Eu Hyo-min 劉孝敏 and Eu Hyo-yeong 劉孝永 were there, being investigated. This evening, instead of Pak Chung-hwa 朴正華, they tried to detain us. We petitioned to leave and were allowed to return to the church.

July 11, 1955
I encouraged Yoo Kyoung-kyu, Hwan-chae [Hwang Hwan-chae, a student from Yonsei University – also in the top photo] and the students from Ewha. I asked everybody to meet at Yang’s house, with unity and love. [ Yang Yoon-yeong was a professor of music who taught at both Yonsei University and Ewha Womans University – photo below.] At 4:30 I prepared for life in jail, and went to the investigation station. I also saw Choi Sung-sil 催淳実 being interrogated. He also was arrested. I was arrested at the East Gate station. …I was put with one thief and one bureaucrat. I gave these young men new hope for the future. [Choi Sung-sil is Choi Soon-shil and was a young woman, not a man. She was the sister of Sam Pak’s mother, Choi Soon-wha 催淳華. This is confirmed in a newspaper report in Kyunghyang-sinmun, July 15, 1955 which is below.]

July 13, 1955
I was sent by a detective to the Chong No station. Already Teacher [Moon] and Sung-sil were there. … Eu Hyo-min and Eu Hyo-yeong were with them too. …

July 29, 1955
Mr. Choi came over”
[This is most probably Mr. Choi Seong-mo 崔聖模, the father of Choi Soon-shil. He negotiated to get his daughter out of jail at around this date. There are several documents on this website that confirm her release through the influence of her rich father.]
LINK – Choi family,
LINK – Sun Myung Moon used a ‘Honey Trap’

Mr Eu Hyo-won’s diary:
http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks/Eu/Eu-550000.htm

▲ Moon is sitting fourth from the left.

May 26, 1955 Kyunghyang Daily News 경향 신문 京郷新聞 Kyunghyang-shinmun

文敎部에實情調查呼訴「邪敎」問題로除籍當한梨大生
문교부에 실정조사호소 [사교] 문제로 제적당한 이대생

Ewha University student expelled over the “heretical religion” issue appealed to the Ministry of Education for an investigation into the facts

An Ewha (梨大) student who attends the Seoul church of the “Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity,” and who was previously expelled from Ewha Womans University on the grounds that she believed in a heretical religion allegedly opposed to the Methodist Church, a traditional faith within academic institutions, on the 25th appealed to the Ministry of Education, protesting what she claimed was an unjust expulsion. At the same time, she sought to clarify whether the Unification Church was in fact heretical, and petitioned for an investigation into what she asserted was the school’s unilateral handling of the matter, requesting reinstatement.

According to the student, even Ewha Womans University has been unable to demonstrate that the Unification Church is a heretical religion. The student says that, as students pursuing learning, if their adherence to an erroneous faith could not be pointed out and established, and if the expulsion was carried out solely for the reasons mentioned above, then the measure was unjust.

Meanwhile, the student reported that on May 23rd they had petitioned the university president for reinstatement, but the president dismissed the request, stating that past matters would not be discussed, and that the expulsion was based on the school’s firm policy. It was for this reason, they said, that they had now appealed to the Ministry of Education.

梨大 is shorthand for Ewha Womans University

[At this time the university was well aware of Moon’s crimes and sex rituals in 1946-48 in Pyongyang, North Korea due to having staff members who had been there and had seen families being exploited and broken.]

May 27, 1955 Choongang Ilbo

Is the Unification Church a deviant religion?
It is similar to nudism.

Quoting what it said were opinions of various sectors of the society… It carried a remark from a police officer: “Although we cannot yet publicize a concrete piece of evidence about their sexual practice, they seem to be connected to the New Lord Sect, those nudists in Pyungbook.” It also had a remark from Gion Che, their chief editor in Christian communication: “They understand everything in terms of sex. Their three-day brainwashing was quite convincing; however, acts that deny the Bible cannot last long. I am certain that Ewha Womans University took a wise step.”

June 4, 1955 Yonhap Shinmun

“The founder claims to be God. The members cry wildly and sing hymns, saying that diseases are cured by prayers and baptism of fire.”

June 5, 1955 Yonhap Shinmun

“Their uniqueness lies in being based on sex. Even faculty members who went there to check the situation joined them. … They deny the whole of the established church and claim they will unify the world religions.”

▲ Professor Kim Hwal-lan 金活蘭, Helen Kim, President of Ewha Womans University

From a 2012 Unification Church promotional video, The Life of Rev Sun Myung Moon:
“Rev Moon had sought out Christian churches, but they only persecuted him for their misunderstanding. Because of their disbelief of the prepared foundation, he had to start anew, putting new wine in new wineskins. He had to make a new beginning to pioneer a new heaven, new earth and new age. Rev Moon’s words spread like wildfire in the universities, especially the two mission schools Yonsei and Ewha Womans University were at the center of this whirlwind…”

▲ 朴瑪利亞 Maria Park was the wife of the Vice President of South Korea, Lee Ki-Bung. She was the Vice President of Ewha Womans University.

In the same video a UC spokeswoman, Kang Jeong-won, explains:
“The former Chairman of the National Assembly was Lee Ki-Bung. His wife was Maria Park. She was the vice president of Ewha University at the time [when a Ewha Womans University law major sophomore was expelled]. A few days later, the media turned their backs on us. They slandered us saying we were a promiscuous group that dances around naked, breaks up families and so on. That was the beginning of all the bad publicity.”

Dong-sook, known as a ‘True Child’ was born March 7, 1955.

( Hee-jin, son of Sun Myung Moon, was born August 17, 1955.)

▲ Moon and Dong-sook have some resemblance to each other. She was the first child connected to Moon, as far as is known, to be born in 1955. Her mother may have been called Yang. It has been reported that she died before 1960.

▲ Dong-sook looking at Ye-jin in about January 1961. Ye-jin was the first child of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. The photo below was taken at about the same time.

▲ Dong-sook sitting on the floor at the Cheongpa-dong Church in Seoul. Moon is probably holding Ye-jin. Moon asked Dong-sook to participate in the ceremonies held for the birth of Ye-jin. Dong-sook had a special position in Moon’s family. In 2012 she visited Moon in hospital during his last days, and was listed as a ‘True Child’ that September.

Dong-sook and her marriage to a son of Sun Myung Moon

July 5, 1955 경향 신문 Kyunghyang Daily News page 3

The Ministry of Culture and Education has recognized the Unification Church as a 邪敎 ‘sagyo’ wicked religion (heresy) while the Unification Church denies this designation.

▲ Restoring so many women was tiring for Sun Myung Moon.

The Segae newspaper published several articles about the Unification Church. On July 6 1955 it reported that 80 students from Ewha were involved with Sun Myung Moon.

July 6, 1955 경향 신문 京郷新聞 Kyunghyang Daily News ▼

不法監禁等의嫌疑 統一敎會敎主를拘束
불법감금등의 혐의 통일교회교주를 구속
Arrest of the leader of the Unification Church on suspicion of illegal confinement [of a female student, Choi Soon-shil, for three or more days], among other charges.

This article was published two days after Moon’s arrest on violation of the military duty and adultery charges because of complaints from Seoul’s Ewha Womans University.

京郷漫評 = Kyunghyang newspaper cartoon

The sign above the door says Unification Church and HSA-UWC.

M.S. [Moon Sun-myung] of the Unification Church [as he kicks a man out]:

“Can’t you read the sign! It says ‘Female College Students Welcome’ … Eek”

統一敎会 and 世界基督教統一神霊協会.

◇統一敎會에메스◇ = ◇ M.S. of the Unification Church ◇

간판을 보고믈어와! 女大生歡迎인데…익크

July 6, 1955 서울일보 Seoul Daily News page 3

Moon Sun Myung was “Misleading women into fornication through eloquence”

▲ Left to right: Kim Won-pil, Eu Hyo-yeong, Eu Hyo-min and Moon Sun Myung standing before the judge in July 1955.

July 6, 1955 Dong-a Ilbo (East Asia Daily News, a major newspaper)
동아일보 東亞日報

邪敎與否는『노 | 탓취』 不法監禁嫌疑基督教統一敎會의『文』敎主拘束
사교여부는『노 | 탓취』 부법감금혐의로기독교통일교회의『문)』교주구숙

Is the Unification Church a heretical religion? This question is ‘no touch’
— Leader Moon of the Christian Unification Church arrested on charges of illegal confinement [of a Yonsei University female student].

Sun Myung Moon (文鮮明), aged thirty-six, the leader of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (世界基督教統一神靈協會), which once caused considerable controversy in religious circles, was taken into custody by the Public Security Bureau on the 4th on charges including draft evasion and illegal confinement.

This association had stirred turmoil in religious circles over the question of whether it should be regarded as an orthodox religion or a heretical one, and because individuals were said to have believed in this group, students at Ewha Womans University (梨大) were even expelled, causing social controversy at the time. With the arrest of its leader, the matter has once again drawn public attention.

According to police investigations, Moon maintains his registered place of origin in Pyongyang and is said to have fled south during the January–Fourth Retreat [in 1951 during the Korean War]. He allegedly failed to complete military service registration procedures, and is reported to have increased his stated age from the mid-thirties to forty-three. It is further alleged that he illegally confined a female believer, Moon Young-il (pseudonym), aged 22 who was a [Yonsei] university student, for three days or more, during which time he [starved her and] attempted to coerce her into adopting the faith.

However, according to officials of the Public Security Bureau, the arrest and interrogation of Moon are being handled strictly as violations of the general criminal code, and with regard to matters of doctrine or theology, they stated that they would absolutely take a “no touch” approach.

[The name of the imprisoned student was Choi Soon-shil, the sister of Choi Soon-wha.]

▲ Outside the Chang Kyung Palace in Seoul after the first people successfully passed the first headquarters Divine Principle test on March 31, 1955.
Here is an enlarged section:

▲ Choi Soon-wha is on the right. It is probably her sister, Soon-shil, on the left.

While Moon was in the Seodaemun Prison, other members of the church were also interrogated by the police. Daehwa Chung was one of them:

“I was interrogated at Yongsan Police Station. I remember them asking about my address, family circumstances, the reason for my expulsion from Ewha, and my experience at the church. They took notes of my answers all right. I don’t remember who I went there with. … Some went to Chongro Station. Even now I can clearly see the scene of my interrogation; I can never forget it. … They treated us like gentlemen, because we were women and young and came just for questioning not as suspects. So I came out the same day.” (interviewed by Kim Sang Hee in August 2010 LINK)

July 7, 1955 경향 신문 Kyunghyang Daily News ▼

두꺼비 Toad [ ヒキガエル = Toad ]
안회섭 Ahn Wi-seob [cartoonist]

처음보는 여잔데? But I’ve never seen this woman before?
통일! Tong-il! Unification…
통일! Tong-il! Unification…
統一敎會! 통일교! Unification Church! Yikes!

July 7, 1955 Seoul Daily News 서울일보 page 3

“Four married women were violated” by Moon Sun Myung or members of the Unification Church

▲ Sun Myung Moon with students and professors from Ewha Womens University in the mid 1950s. The three graduates had been expelled from Ewha Womans University, but later graduated from a different university. Choi Won-pok (1916-2006) is in the middle row on the left hand side, wearing a light colored coat. Choi Soon-wha is in the front row on the right. She had Sam Park with Sun Myung Moon. Sam was born on January 28, 1966, which was six years after Moon married Hak Ja Han.

Sam Park, Moon’s secret son, reveals hidden history (transcript of his 2014 video)

July 7, 1955 동아일보 Dong-a Ilbo (East Asia Daily News)

「하느님」아들行勢

弄絡當한婦女수두룩
注目끄는統一敎會  『文敎主』行狀

「하느님」아들행세

농락당한부여 수두룩
주목끄는통일교회
『문교주』행장

The behavior of the “Son of God”
Numerous Women Deceived

The behavior of Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, attracts attention.

Brief report [Following the earlier July 6 report] – With the arrest of its leader, the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (Unification Church) has abruptly become a topic of public discussion and has been effectively “shut down.” What, then, is the true nature of this organization, and did Mr. Moon in fact violate even the chastity of female believers? The charges uncovered by the authorities are limited to two points: “draft evasion” and “illegal confinement” [for three days. The person was a 22 year-old female Yonsei university student, Choi Soon-shil who was deprived of food by Moon.] However, when various pieces of information surrounding Mr. Moon and his church are compiled —

◊ Doctrine and Method of Preaching – In this church, doctrine is preached to newly joined believers over seventy-two hours (a full three days). The sermons are delivered by the leader, Mr. Moon, and continue every week from Monday at 10 a.m. until Thursday at 10 a.m.

If, during the sermons, a believer comes to harbor doubts about Mr. Moon’s doctrinal preaching and wishes to leave, Mr. Moon, in a solemn tone, says, “If you leave, you will die,” thereby preventing the person from leaving. Mr. Moon also preaches that “the Korean people are the people chosen by God, and Pyongyang is the Jerusalem of the world,” and proclaims that “he himself is the son of God, and if one has physical relations with him, one will give birth to a savior [child without original sin].”

◊ Lewd Conduct – Mr. Moon, an eloquent speaker, is said to have lured women identified as devout believers to locations other than his own quarters (a small room within the association) and violated their chastity.

Four women who can be definitively identified as victims are middle-aged married women in their thirties or older, whose families belong to the middle class or above. One of them, Mrs. Kim Soon-chang (pseudonym), aged 36, had been the lady in charge of a well-to-do upper-class household, but after becoming a sacrifice to Leader Moon, she came to face the fate of being abandoned by her husband.

◊ The Financial Situation of the Association – The current association building is rented. Although they receive donations from approximately 250 believers (in Seoul), the amounts are small. Therefore, they mass-produce “bromide” photographs of city [and other] scenes and sell them throughout the city.

◊ The Status of the Organization – There are branches in Busan, Daegu and elsewhere, and the headquarters is in Seoul. Concerning the number of followers, a total of 700 attend at dawn. 250 of these have attained a grade. The level of education is to quite a high standard. Looking at the gender balance, there are about equal numbers of men and women.

There were always far fewer members than the church claimed.

According to the Ph.D. thesis of Choe Joong-hyun, UC / FFWPU member number 361 joined on April 10, 1956 (ref. page 202). In February 1959 Rev. Moon had a ceremony to end the New Testament Age in which 462 members participated (thesis page 160).
The Korean War and messianic groups: Two cases in contrast (1993)

Mr. Tahk Myeong-hwan had internal UC / FFWPU documents which demonstrated that the number of churches and members was far lower than claimed by the church, which presented false statistics to the public.

▲ This is the headquarters church in 1955, just before a service. Known as the ‘House of Three Doors’ it was in Bukhak-dong, Seoul. Eu Hyo-won is standing with a cane. Moon had a private room in the house next door. That is where Eu Shin-hee and many other women were ‘restored’ by Sun Myung Moon.

▲ From the left, 玉世賢 Mrs Ok Se-hyun and 姜賢実 Mrs Kang Hyun-shil outside the ‘House of Three Doors’ in 1955. (The women were both part of the Six Marys at one time or other.) Sun Myung Moon married Mrs Kang to St Augustine.

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

Sun Myung Moon’s personal room was next door to the infamous ‘house of three doors’. Here are two testimonies from women who were members in 1954-1955. One of them was ‘restored’ in his room.

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

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

LINK to a PDF of the Transactions No. 43 magazine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Q.7: “Why?”

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

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

Link to an English transcript of the interview.

▲ Kim Deok-jin walking behind Sun Myung Moon.
Kim Deok-jin – Practised Sun Myung Moon’s Sex Relay

July 14, 1955 Dong-a Ilbo (East Asia Daily News) 동아일보

六名을拘束送廳「統一敎會」의文教主等

륙명을구속송청 「통일교회」의문교주등

As previously reported, the so-called “Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity Case” (世界基督敎神靈統一協會事件), which has been under investigation by the National Police Bureau, has now reached an initial conclusion. On the 13th, six related individuals were sent under arrest to the Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office, together with one set of case documents.

At present, those involved in this case are being interrogated on charges including violation of the Military Service Act, forgery of documents, and violation of the National Security Act. However, according to one investigative official, in addition to these charges, seven cases of adultery between the leader Moon and female followers have been confirmed. It is therefore anticipated that a new investigation into adultery offenses will be launched.

As of now, however, no formal complaints have been filed by the husbands of the women involved. Since adultery is a crime prosecuted only upon complaint by the injured party (a “crime subject to private prosecution”), the investigation cannot presently proceed on those grounds.

Furthermore, whether these alleged adultery cases are legally established is expected to provide a criterion for determining whether the group constitutes a “heretical religion.” Accordingly, close attention is being paid to the future direction of the prosecution’s investigation.

List of Related Persons
(Sent to the prosecutor under arrest)

• Sun Myung Moon (文鮮明) — (Leader)  Charges: Illegal confinement [of a female student], violation of the Military Service Act
• Kim Won-pil (金元弼)  Charges: Violation of the National Security Act, violation of the Military Service Act
• Eu Hyo-min (劉孝敏)  Charge: Violation of the Military Service Act
• Eu Hyo-yeong (劉孝永)  Charge: Violation of the Military Service Act
• Eu Hyo-won (劉孝元)  Charge: Forgery of documents
• Choi Soon-shil (崔淳實) (female) Charge: Mediation of sexual misconduct

July 15, 1955 Kyunghyang Daily News 경향 신문

六名拘束送廳統一教會事件

육명구속 송청 통일교도 사건

Six Arrested and Sent to the Prosecutor in the Unification Church Case

The National Police Bureau’s Special Intelligence Division, which had been conducting custodial interrogation of Sun Myung Moon (文鮮明, age 36), the leader of the Unification Church, along with five other church officials, has now brought the investigation to an initial close. On the afternoon of the 13th, all six suspects were formally transferred under arrest to the Prosecutors’ Office.

List of suspects and charges:
• Sun Myung Moon (文鮮明) (Leader)  Charges: Violation of the Military Service Act, Illegal confinement [of a female student]
• Eu Hyo-won (劉孝元) (Executive)  Charge: Forgery of official documents
• Eu Hyo-min (劉孝敏) (Executive)  Charge: Violation of the National Security Act
• Eu Hyo-yeong (劉孝永) (Executive)  Charges: Violation of the Military Service Act and Violation of the National Security Act
• Kim Won-pil (金元弼) (Executive)  Charge: Violation of the Military Service Act
• Choi Soon-sil (催淳實) (female believer)  Charge: Mediation of sexual misconduct

It is reported that they were to undergo interrogation by Prosecutor Kang Seo-ryong (姜瑞龍) of the Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office.

Choi Soon-shil, who confessed to group sex activities, was released because of her father’s efforts. His name was Choi Seong-mo and he was a very successful businessman. He was the grandfather of Sam Park who was born in Washington, DC. in January 1966.

▲ Choi Seong-mo.

July 31, 1955 동아일보 Dong-a Ilbo (East Asia Daily News)

文敎主等起訴統一教會事件

문교주등기소 통일교회사건

Leader Moon and Others Indicted in the Unification Church Case

Those involved in the “Unification Church Case,” who had been undergoing interrogation under the supervision of Prosecutor Kang Seo-yong (姜瑞龍) of the Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office, namely Moon Yong-myung (文龍明) (the leader, also known as Sun Myung Moon), Eu Hyo-won, Eu Hyo-min, Kim Won-pil, and Eu Hyo-yeong, five persons in total, were formally indicted while under detention on the afternoon of the 29th on charges of violation of the Military Service Act and violation of the Special Measures Ordinance Concerning Conscription.

Meanwhile, the Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office had continued an intensive investigation into allegations of adultery involving Moon Yong-myung, the leader of the Unification Church. However, since neither the alleged female parties nor their husbands filed formal complaints, the adultery allegations that had drawn public attention were not entered as charges. Consequently, the indictment proceeded solely on the military service–related offenses.

▲ Another 1955 baby. Kim Myung-hee (left) with Moon Hee-jin in about 1960 after their return to Korea. Kim Myung-hee had stayed at the house of Yang Yun-yeong in Seoul when she was pregnant. Moon sent her away to Japan to give birth to his child. For Kim to have the baby in Korea was a risk to himself. Moon could have been jailed for adultery again – as he had been in Pyongyang in 1946. According to the Los Angeles Times, he was jailed for bigamy in 1948. Moon wrote letters to Kim Myung-hee in Japan, but he never sent her any money. Hee-jin was born in Tokyo on August 17, 1955.

▲ Moon Sun Myung with Hee-jin on January 5, 1965. He died alone in a train incident just outside Maepo station in Chungcheongbuk Province, on August 1, 1969. He was leaning out of the train as it approached the station. His mother explained some details.

Kim Myung-hee, the third wife of Sun Myung Moon

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

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

어제첫公判統一教會事件

어제첫공판 통일교회사건

Yesterday the first trial was held in the ‘Unification Church’ case

The first hearing at the Seoul District Court in the case concerning Sun Myung Moon (文鮮明), leader of the Unification Church (real name: Moon Yong-myung [文龍明], age 36), was held yesterday (the 20th) at 10:30 a.m.in Courtroom No. 4 of the Seoul District Court. The session was presided over by Judge Yoon Hak-ro (尹學老), with Prosecutor Kang Seo-yong (姜瑞龍) participating. On this day, the courtroom was packed with a large number of women believed to be followers of the Unification Church.

Moon, the defendant, who had previously been the subject of much public attention due to reports of numerous adultery allegations, appeared in court only as a defendant charged with violation of the Military Service Act. The adultery-related matters were not brought before the court because no formal complaints had been filed by the parties concerned with respect to the adultery allegations.

Along with Moon, the following individuals affiliated with the same church also appeared before the bench:

• Kim Won-pil (金元弼), age 28 — Violation of the Military Service Act (age increased by six years)
• Eu Hyo-won (劉孝元), age 42 — Failure to report for military registration
• Eu Hyo-min (劉孝敏), age 36 — Same charge as above
• Eu Hyo-yeong (劉孝永), age 35 — Same charge as above

The hearing proceeded with the prosecution’s reading of the indictment, followed by examination of the facts.

On that day, Moon admitted to having increased his stated age. However, with regard to the legal question of whether increasing one’s age constitutes a violation of the Military Service Act even when the individual has already exceeded the draft-eligible age (32–33 years and above), it was noted that there exist two differing legal interpretations within legal circles.

In the indictment, Prosecutor Kang pointed out that Moon had increased his age and evaded military service based on his Christian belief that one should not shed blood or take life.

September 21, 1955 서울新聞 Seoul Shinmun Seoul Daily News

兵役위반是認統一敎會事件公判
女信徒들法廷서祈禱

병역위반시인 통일교회 사건공판
여신도들 법정서 기도

Admission of Military Service Law Violation [by Sun Myung Moon] in the Unification Church Trial.

Female believers pray in the courtroom.

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

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

September 22, 1955 동아일보 Dong-a Ilbo (East Asia Daily News)

文敎主에二年統一敎會事件求刑

문교주에 이년 통일교회사건구형

Two-Year Sentence Sought for Leader Moon in Unification Church Case.

As previously reported, following the examination of facts at the first hearing of the Unification Church Case, which was held on the 21st, Prosecutor Kang Seo-yong (姜瑞龍) requested the following sentences for the defendants:

• Sun Myung Moon (文鮮明) (leader) — Two years’ imprisonment
• Eu Hyo-won (劉孝元) — Two years’ imprisonment

One year and six months’ imprisonment for each:
• Kim Won-pil (金元弼), Eu Hyo-min (劉孝敏), Eu Hyo-yeong (劉孝永)

▲ Around the same time, there was an uproar about the Unification Church at Yonsei University. An Byong-mu 安柄茂 (above), who was Chairman of the Korea Theological Institute (now Professor Emeritus) said:

“There was an active campaign to recruit believers at Yonsei University by a woman, Professor B. [Most probably she was Professor Yang Yun-yeong 梁允永 who taught music at both Ewha and Yonsei universities.] She also came to invite me. I thought she was quite a beauty. I wondered about this new religion; why had such an attractive woman joined this cult? At that time she said, “Rev. Moon always talks one-to-one with women believers in the room. He talks in a high-pitched tone for hours on end. The woman then ends up becoming a fervent believer.” After all this, Professor B [Yang] was made to retire, and some students were also expelled at the time.”

週刊ポスト Shūkan Post October 15, 1993, pages 212 to 215 LINK

October 5, 1955 동아일보 Dong-a Ilbo (East Asia Daily News)

文敎主에無罪統一敎會事件言渡

Leader Moon Found Not Guilty — Verdict in the Unification Church Case

The sentencing hearing in the so-called “Unification Church Case” was held at 10:50 a.m. on the 4th in Courtroom No. 4 of the Seoul District Court. Presiding Judge Yoon Hak-no (尹學老) delivered the verdict, ruling “not guilty” for Leader Moon, sentencing one defendant to a fine, and imposing custodial sentences on the remaining three defendants.

◊ Verdict (with requested sentences in parentheses):

• Sun Myung Moon (文鮮明) — Not guilty (requested sentence: two years’ imprisonment)
• Eu Hyo-won (劉孝元) — Fine of 5,000 won (requested sentence: two years’ imprisonment)

For the following three — eight months’ imprisonment, with six days of pretrial detention credited
(requested sentence for each: one year and six months’ imprisonment)
• Eu Hyo-min (劉孝敏)
• Eu Hyo-yeong (劉孝永)
• Kim Won-pil (金元弼)

Sun Myung Moon was arrested, but after a while he was acquitted. I asked Eu Hyo-min, “He reportedly had some kind of deal with the administration. Is that true?” I asked him for confirmation. Mr Eu did not deny it. LINK

▲ Moon was released after dark, at 9:40pm on October 4, 1955. There had been a brief hearing earlier that day where, according to the diary of Eu Hyo-won, “Chief Judge Yoon Hak-no proclaimed that Teacher was innocent” in spite of the fact that Moon had admitted his guilt in court on September 20. Oh Yeong-choon’s testimony also sheds light on what happened.

Oh Yeong-choon 呉永春 raised large sums of money and visited the lawyers and the prosecutor. This testimony was written before she left the church.

“… To backtrack a bit, in the beginning of June 1955, Father called me. He told me that Ewha University was trying to cause problems and to go borrow some money. Though there were many members, most of the members were new and did not have money. Father had no one he could trust and talk to about it. That was a time when we were not so well off financially. However, I had to get the money even if it put me into debt. I have never disobeyed Father. My heart became restless and beat hard. Luckily, I had credit with someone I knew. The interest rate was 10 percent. Nothing scared me in those days. I borrowed 100,000 Won, another 100,000 Won and then 300,000 Dong Seok and I presented it to Father. Father would not even touch or look at it. Mr. Noh Dong-hwi 盧東輝 would take it. A month later, I thought we had closed all the loopholes, but then another loophole opened. Investigators took Father in on July 4, but he did not come back. We were completely shocked.

“A few days later, the four leaders were also taken in. There were not any members with whom I could discuss details about the problem, so I had no choice but to start a gye. I thought that our first priority was to free Father. I heard that there was a person named Jo Dong-seok, among our members, who had some experience with the police. Trusting him, I started giving him money to carry out the task of freeing Father. Lump sums of about 200,000 Won, 300,000 Won and 500,000 Won had to be invested. We would meet a prosecutor one day, and then meet a lawyer the next day. Whenever I met these people, the only thing that was discussed was money as though I owned a bank. If I could not meet a person, I would go around looking for the person. I had to find money haphazardly.

“Creditors constantly kept asking for their money. I was in a completely tight position. Four months passed in this manner. I was so heavily in debt, but I never regretted it nor blamed it on anyone. I did not feel any pang of conscience because I did it for the God’s will and voluntarily. At times, I even got loans with a 30 percent interest rate. My heart was at ease no matter what other people said. The only painful part was not being able to pay back the money.

“To make money, I decided to start a business, a thing I had never done in my life. I opened a shop in Yongsan Station that depended on business from the nearby army base. I ran it with In Shik Lee. Mr. Lee was in charge of the labor and I invested a million won. However, I did not have much time to myself. I did not even have time to eat or sleep because I had to visit Father and find money. I left the business in the hands of two single women, Seung Gyu Park and Gye Wol Park, and only came back at night. My goal was Father’s acquittal and discharge. I could not think of myself, and I had to look for money. I was ready to go to prison if I could not pay the creditors back. The only priority in my mind was how to free Father and the leaders who had been taken in.

“Soldiers continued coming to Yongsan Station until 2 AM and by 4 AM they started swarming in. I could only sleep for two hours. To receive a [prison] visitation ticket [to visit Father], I had to reach Seodaemun Prison by six o’clock in the morning and wait in line first.

“To tell the truth, Mrs. Choi Seon-gil 催先吉 [Moon’s first wife] had joined hands with Ewha [Womans] University to cause problems that brought about the July 4 incident. When our innocent Father was in Seodaemun Prison, our members visited Mrs. Choi Seon-gil every day, exerting all kinds of efforts to persuade her, bowing to her and begging her to resolve the problem peacefully. She was very obstinate about it, as though she had done what she was supposed to do. With heaven’s help, Father was acquitted within three months. Mrs. Choi, too, seemed to think she did not have much choice anymore and agreed to sign the papers in exchange for a certain amount of money. I got the money through the members. It was now over.” LINK

The “signed papers in exchange for money” may well be referring to the custody of the son of Choi Seon-gil and Sun Myung Moon. His name was Sung-jin Moon. It is written in the book of Kim Myung-hui that Sung-jin was handed over to Moon in exchange for money. The laws in Korea at that time usually gave custody to the father.

Oh Yeong-choon moved to the US in 1972 to avoid her Korean creditors.

▲ Oh Yeong-choon 呉永春 after she had left Moon’s church.

Over two years later, Choi Seon-gil divorced Sun Myung Moon – on January 8, 1957. Moon had committed adultery and had fathered one or two (or more) known children in 1955. According to other sources there were further children fathered by Moon between 1950 and 1980; at least two of them were sons. Some women had abortions – according to Mr Pak, Mr Eu paid for one abortion after Moon refused to do so.

From 1953 to 2015 adultery was a jail-able offense in Korea – if a spouse complained to the authorities.

Report on Police and Judicial corruption in South Korea.

▲ Moon with three of the four Eu family members who followed him in the 1950s: standing, Hyo-won Eu. Front row: Hyo-min Eu, Won-pil Kim and Hyo-yeong Eu. Hyo-won was the first president of the UC, but he left the UC in the last period of his life. He spent his last nine months hospital. Pastor Deok-jin Kim happened to meet him a week before he passed. Hyo-won explained many things to him, and also to his cousins, Hyo-min Eu and Shin-hee Eu, who then both left the Unification Church. Hyo-yeong Eu left many years later.

Pastor Deok-jin Kim’s encounter with Hyo-won Eu in the hospital is described HERE.

Hyo-won Eu died on July 24, 1970 at 56 years of age. He spent the last few days of his life in a relative’s house. Moon made a big church funeral for Hyo-won Eu, but did not himself attend.

Pak Chung-hwa said this about Moon’s 1955 arrest:
“Because of his disturbing the social order with women in Pyongyang, he was sent to Heungnam [prison in 1948]. Thanks to the members in Seoul, who out of desperation committed perjury and frantically moved or destroyed evidence, [Moon] was said to be acquitted. But the facts had roots. He would otherwise have had a long prison sentence.” page 227.

Professor James Huntley Grayson, Korea – A Religious History
320 pages (New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 1989, revised 2002)

page 210: “In July 1955, Mun was imprisoned for gross immorality, but was subsequently released.”

page 211: “As one of the most important functions of the Lord of the Second Advent is the physical restoration of mankind, Mun selects suitable marital partners for the faithful and conducts sacred ceremonies of marriage in large groups. It should be noted with regard to the purging of physical sin that Mun has been accused of acts of gross immorality which are denied by church authorities.”

Robert Boettcher, Gifts of Deceit – Sun Myung Moon, Tong-sun Park and the Korean Scandal (1980)
“Rumors reached the American Embassy that Moon was a ritual womanizer. Reportedly, young girls underwent sexual initiation into his cult; he would thus purge them of the Satanic spirits that inhabited Eve and lead them to the Divine Principle. He was jailed for three months in 1955 by South Korean authorities on charges reported by newspapers and government agencies as draft evasion, forgery, ‘pseudo-religion,’ and false imprisonment of a university coed compelled to adopt his religion.” (page 35)

William J Petersen, Those Curious New Cults (1975)
“According to the Rev. Won-Il Chei, a leading Presbyterian minister in Seoul, “If we believe those who have gone into the group and come out, they say that one has to receive Sun Myung Moon’s blood to receive salvation. That blood is ordinarily received by three periods of sexual intercourse. But this fact they themselves keep absolutely secret.”
A Japanese book, The Madness in Japan by Arao Arai, charges that Moon used to teach that “in order to purify oneself of the Satanic blood we inherited and in order to go to heaven after death, humans must have intercourse with those who have God’s blessings. This is what they call the ritual of blood-sharing or ritual of holy spirit exchange.””
(page 250)

The reputation of Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church was so dirty that they resorted to paying members to join, according to a 1963 CIA report.

CIA intelligence reports were among a sheaf of intelligence summaries, diplomatic cables, governmental memorandums and other documents made public by the Fraser subcommittee as it opened four days of hearings on Korean efforts to influence American policy.
The first mention of the Unification Church came in a United States Central Intelligence Agency report dated Feb. 26, 1963…

On the Unification Church, an intelligence report said: “Members of the church are actively engaged in increasing membership in farming villages. The church apparently has considerable money, because it pays influential people in the villages a substantial sum for joining the church.”
The subcommittee released many other documents tracing the founding and expansion of the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation — which eventually claimed former Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower as honorary chairmen — into a KCIA front for fund-raising and lobbying efforts.

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81M00980R000600200010-3.pdf

The wife of the UC president at the time, Sa Gil-ja, explains further about the 1955 Ewha Womans University Sex Scandal. She was one of the students who was expelled. Here are some extracts from her April 12, 1986 testimony.

“In 1955 Ewha [Womans] University and Yonsei University started heavy persecution. Because of this the Korean government, all established churches, and all educated people started to persecute the Unification Church. People even wanted the government to stop the movement, to wipe it out. At that time we could not reach any high-level or educated people, so Father sent us out to the countryside to educate these poor farmers’ children.

“We couldn’t say we were from the Unification Church because of our bad reputation, but we could teach them basic things, such as how to read and write Korean or Chinese or English. Through this they became connected to us and some of these young people eventually joined. They went to 7-day workshop, 21-day workshop, and 40-day workshop. Then they left their parents and their farms and became pioneers for the church.

“Of course, their parents were very angry with them because they needed their children to do the farm labor. The children more or less escaped from their families. As pioneers they were very poor, so sometimes they would try to go back to their parents and beg them for a little rice or some money, in order to be able to continue their mission on the front line. But often their parents wouldn’t give them anything.”

http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks/Eu/Eu-860412a.htm

▲ Six of the expelled students entered Sookmyung Women’s University in 1956 and later graduated. They are with their parents on their graduation day.
(from left) Shin Mi-shik, Chung Dae-hwa, Kim Gyung-shik, Seo Myung-jin, Sa Gil-ja and Kim Jung-eun.

Eu Hyo-min (36 couple) was interviewed in September 1993 by Mr. Hagiwara Ryo:

“Let me give an explanation of ‘pikareum’. Eve, the ancestor of human race, had sex with the serpent in the Garden of Eden and was corrupted. It was the fall of man. So, to restore this fall, it is also necessary to perform sexual intercourse. This is the ‘the Principle of Restoration’ according to the Unification Church. In the church this act is called ‘sex yakuji 性役事 ’. [This means ‘an obligatory or necessary sexual ceremony.’] This is the definition of ‘pikareum.’

“Furthermore, as for the matter of Mr. Moon being found innocent, it was because there were no complaints from these women or their husbands. Therefore the prosecution could only prosecute him for violation of the draft laws because he lied about his age to avoid military service. However, in reality it was entirely a problem with women.”

LINK: Sun Myung Moon’s “Gigantic white lie”

Eu Hyo-min (36 couple) was interviewed in October 1993 by Mr. Oobayashi Takeshi:

Sun Myung Moon was arrested [in July 1955], but after a while he was acquitted. I asked Mr Eu Hyo-min, “He reportedly had some kind of deal with the administration. Is that true?” I asked him for confirmation. Mr Eu did not deny it.

This is the story he told me. When Mr. Eu was arrested during the Ewha Womans University incident, he was delivered food every day. The man [Choi Seong-mo] who did this was the father of a certain daughter [Choi Soon-shil], who also was in the jail.

▲ Mr. Choi Seong-mo

“The father of this daughter came at around 10 or 11 at night, and brought me many things, such as beer. He also took us outside the prison. I remember – it was a relief during the very hot and humid month of July.”

Now the father has become a big shot in a conglomerate which has a famous building that every Korean knows about. [The 63 Building].

LINK: Pikareum emerged at Ewha Womans University in 1955

▲ The 63 Building on Yoido Island in Seoul at dawn.

The original 1955 Korean newspaper articles:
1955년 이화여대에서 일어난 문선명 섹스 스캔들
統一教會事件 통일교회사건 1955.7.4.

Pikareum emerged during the “Ewha Womans University Incident” in the early days of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

FBI Report on the Summary of the Official and Unofficial Theology of the UC

Hyung-jin Moon confirms, on video, his father, Sun Myung Moon’s pikareum sex rituals

Sun Myung Moon’s “Gigantic lie” by Eu Hyo-min (36 couple)

Moon talks about the Ewha scandal

Sa Gil-ja (Eu Gil-ja Sa), one of the students involved, speaks about the 1955 Ewha sex scandal – Moon was known as Yesu Mun, Jesus Moon

Moon’s theology for his pikareum sex rituals with all the 36 wives

Sun Myung Moon – Restoration through Incest

Sun Myung Moon explains pikareum

Moon used a ‘Honey Trap’, a beautiful woman, to ensnare Sam Park’s very rich grandfather, Choi Seong-mo. Sam’s uncle explains what happened to the Choi family.

Dong-sook listed as a ‘True Child’

Kim Myung-hee, the third wife of Sun Myung Moon

The lie that Kim Myung-hee was raped in Japan

Ritual Sex in the Unification Church – Kirsti L. Nevalainen

The six ‘wives’ of Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon makes me feel ashamed to be Korean
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

Spanish – Español

Teología de Sun Myung Moon para sus rituales sexuales

Sun Myung Moon fue excomulgado en 1948

Moon y estudiante de Ewha – escándalo sexual en 1955

Transcripción del video de la Tragedia de Las Seis Marías

The Tragedy of the Six Marys

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

Ewha scandal as told in 1955 newspapers

Sun Myung Moon sex scandal at Ewha Womans University as told in the Korean newspapers during 1955

“The Purpose of God’s Providence of Salvation is to end the journey of God’s sperm.”

文敎部에實情調查呼訴「邪敎」問題로除籍當한梨大生
문교부에 실정조사호소 [사교] 문제로 제적당한 이대생

Dong-sook, known as a ‘True Child’ was born March 7, 1955.

邪敎與否는『노 | 탓취』 不法監禁嫌疑基督教統一敎會의『文』敎主拘束
사교여부는『노 | 탓취』 부법감금혐의로기독교통일교회의『문)』교주구숙

「하느님」아들行勢

弄絡當한婦女수두룩
注目끄는統一敎會  『文敎主』行狀

「하느님」아들행세

농락당한부여 수두룩
주목끄는통일교회
『문교주』행장

六名을拘束送廳「統一敎會」의文教主等

륙명을구속송청 「통일교회」의문교주등

六名拘束送廳統一教會事件

육명구속 송청 통일교도 사건

文敎主等起訴統一教會事件

문교주등기소 통일교회사건

어제첫公判統一教會事件

어제첫공판 통일교회사건

兵役위반是認統一敎會事件公判
女信徒들法廷서祈禱

병역위반시인 통일교회 사건공판
여신도들 법정서 기도

Admission of Military Service Law Violation [by Sun Myung Moon] in the Unification Church Trial.

Female believers pray in the courtroom.

文敎主에二年統一敎會事件求刑

문교주에 이년 통일교회사건구형

文敎主에無罪統一敎會事件言渡

The reputation of Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church was so dirty that they resorted to paying members to join, according to a 1963 CIA report.

Sun Myung Moon sex scandal at Ewha Womans University as told in the Korean newspapers during 1955

“The Purpose of God’s Providence of Salvation is to end the journey of God’s sperm.”

文敎部에實情調查呼訴「邪敎」問題로除籍當한梨大生 문교부에 실정조사호소 [사교] 문제로 제적당한 이대생

Dong-sook, known as a ‘True Child’ was born March 7, 1955.

邪敎與否는『노 | 탓취』 不法監禁嫌疑 基督教統一敎會의『文』敎主拘束 사교여부는『노 | 탓취』 부법감금혐의로기독교통일교회의『문)』교주구숙

「하느님」아들行勢

弄絡當한婦女수두룩 注目끄는統一敎會 『文敎主 』行狀

「하느님」아들행세

농락당한부여 수두룩 주목끄는통일교회 『문교주』행장

六名을拘束送廳「統一敎會」의文教主等

륙명을구속송청 「통일교회」의문교주등

六名拘束 送廳 統一教會 事件

육명구속 송청 통일교도 사건

文敎主等起訴 統一教會事件

문교주등기소 통일교회사건

어제첫公判 統一教會 事件

어제첫공판 통일교회사건

兵役위반是認 統一敎會 事件公判 女信徒들法廷서祈禱

병역위반시인 통일교회 사건공판 여신도들 법정서 기도

Admission of Military Service Law Violation [by Sun Myung Moon] in the Unification Church Trial.

Female believers pray in the courtroom.

文敎主에二年 統一敎會事件求刑

문교주에 이년 통일교회사건구형

文敎主에無罪 統一敎會事件言渡

The reputation of Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church was so dirty that they resorted to paying members to join, according to a 1963 CIA report.

文敎部에實情調查呼訴「邪敎」問題로除籍當한梨大生
문교부에 실정조사호소 [사교] 문제로 제적당한 이대생

邪敎與否는『노 | 탓취』 不法監禁嫌疑基督教統一敎會의『文』敎主拘束
사교여부는『노 | 탓취』 부법감금혐의로기독교통일교회의『문)』교주구숙

弄絡當한婦女수두룩
注目끄는統一敎會  『文敎主』行狀

농락당한부여 수두룩
주목끄는통일교회
『문교주』행장

륙명을구속송청 「통일교회」의문교주등

六名拘束送廳統一教會事件

文敎主等起訴統一教會事件

어제첫公判統一教會事件

兵役위반是認統一敎會事件公判
女信徒들法廷서祈禱

병역위반시인 통일교회 사건공판
여신도들 법정서 기도

文敎主에二年統一敎會事件求刑

文敎主에無罪統一敎會事件言渡