Moon’s first wife, Seon-gil Choi, and Pastor Deok-jin Kim interviewed

updated January 18, 2026

(Her name, 崔先吉 can also be written Sun-kil Choi, Sun Kil Choi or Choi Sun-kil but that is not so accurate.)

The testimonies of Moon’s first wife, Mrs. Seon-gil Choi,
and Pastor Deok-jin Kim [who wrote 19 of the church ‘Holy Songs’].

from the Japanese magazine 週刊ポスト Shūkan Post “Weekly Post”
October 8, 1993

Report by journalist Takeshi Oobayashi 大林高士

最初の妻崔先吉女史が告白！「文鮮明教祖の性の祕密」
Testimony of first wife, Mrs Seon-gil Choi!
Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his sex secrets

We meet a further important witness in the “Pikareum” controversy

What do newcomers [outside Korea] know about the Unification Church?
The memoir, written as an act of atonement by the 80 year old Pastor Deok-jin Kim
金徳振, who knew the early days of the Unification Church very well, described his own experiences with the “blood exchange ritual” [pikareum] without reservation. The memoir represented his journey to seek out the roots of the UC and those of his former teacher, Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Regarding Moon’s first wife, Mrs. Seon-gil Choi 催先吉, in recent years she lived alone in a house near the Olympic Stadium in Seoul, where the mass wedding was held last year [in 1992]. Here is her testimony.

❖ Photo added:

▲ Seon-gil Choi in the mid 1950s. She born on March 21, 1925 (or 1924) in Chungjoogoon, Pyungbook as the last daughter among six children. She died on November 16, 2008 following an illness.

Sun Myung Moon: “One week before my marriage, my father-in-law (Choi’s father) suddenly passed away. So my marriage got delayed and took place on May 4, 1944. May is glorious spring, but on that day it poured with rain. My marriage was officiated by Rev. Ho-bin Lee of the Jesus Church. … We started family in Heuksukdong.” (from a speech given in 2009)

Describing the process of the pikareum ritual, Mrs. Choi said that, “Women who had had a sexual relationship with Sun Myung Moon, would then select another man and have a sexual relationship with him. The man, in turn, would then have a relationship with another woman, who would then share a relationship with another man; and, so on and so forth. In other words, the act was carried on as a kind of relay.”

Pastor Deok-jin Kim, a former aide to Rev. Moon during the time he was in the UC (or, The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity), handed me his memoirs which described the reality of the “blood exchange ritual” [pikareum], practiced in the early days of the UC (See the section in the previous issue of this magazine.) He also made a stark confession about his personal experience of this ritual: “As a delinquent womanizer, I (Pastor Kim), took advantage of this opportunity. I carefully chose the beautiful female adherents, six of them in Seoul, and four in Jinju, and had physical relationships with them. I was a sex maniac.”

❖ Photo added:

▲ Deok-jin Kim walking behind Sun Myung Moon

Further, Pastor Kim confessed to me, “In addition to these ten ladies, I had sexual relations with six other female members of the church.” He also stated that Rev. Moon himself must have had sexual relations with more than 100 women.

Speaking out against the astonishing testimony of this former aide to Rev. Moon, Unification Church officials are objecting as follows: “In the UC, a ritual such as a “blood exchange ritual” has never existed in theory or in practice. Rev. Moon never had sexual relationships with many unspecified women. What Pastor Deok-jin Kim wrote in his testimony has no foundation in fact and is totally false.”
– UC Public Relations Department.

Pastor Kim, after reading the objection by the UC in Japan, spoke firmly as follows, “What do the Japanese newcomers to the church know? In 1970, Mr. Hyo-won Eu 劉孝元, who was one of the major leaders [and the first president of the UC in Korea] died in a hospital in Seoul. I happened to meet him by chance in the hallway of that hospital one week before he passed away, and spoke with him in his hospital room. It was a hot day. We talked about Sun Myung Moon and shed tears together.”

“After Mr. Hyo-won Eu’s passing, his younger brother and younger sister left the Unification Church because Hyo-won Eu had told them the real story of Sun Myung Moon. I am not lying, or trying to deceive anyone in my testimony.”

❖ Text and photo added:

It was Hyo-won Eu’s cousins, not brother and sister, who left shortly after Eu Hyo-won’s death. Hyo-min Eu 劉孝敏 left in 1972 and his sister, Shin-hee Eu 劉信姫, may have left before him. Hyo-won Eu’s actual brother, Hyo-yeong Eu 劉孝永, left in 1992 after he was replaced at the church business he was running. He was president of Il-shin Stone Co. Ltd. Moon gave the business to his own relative, Moon Seong-yong, who had had no relationship with the company. See The Tragedy of the Six Marys, chapter 6.

▲ From the left, Hyo-min Eu, Chung-hwa Pak and Hyo-yeong Eu (around 1992).

Accordingly, what the UC has to say, and, what Pastor Kim has to say regarding the pikareum “blood exchange ritual” are in direct opposition to each other. What is the real truth?

Furthermore, there was this following passage in Pastor Kim’s memoirs, “When I left the UC and enrolled in the “Korean Reformed Church Seminary,” I wrote an article for a newspaper which I titled, “The True Nature of the Unification Church” along with my close friend Kyong-rae Kim 金景来.

A few days later, one gentle woman visited me and pleaded in tears, “Please take this opportunity to tell the members of the Unification Church throughout the world that Sun Myung Moon was never the messiah!”

This woman was in fact the first wife of Sun Myung Moon, Mrs. Seon-gil Choi. According to Pastor Kim, she seemed to be overcome with passion, and she spoke as follows: “After I was married to Mr. Moon, until I gave birth to my son, to my embarrassment I was asked to have sexual intercourse with him more than ten times every night. His energy was that of a serpent, or even much more powerful than a serpent.”
(From the memoirs of Pastor Kim.)

According to the people who knew Mrs. Choi well, she was a chaste and strong-minded woman while she was the first wife of Mr. Moon. Mr. ‘A,’ a former leader of the UC, admitted that he had made Mrs. Choi divorce Mr. Moon. “I made her accept the divorce. She lashed out at Moon who had physical relationships with women, one after another. She became so upset that she went after him, throwing things, breaking the UC sign [outside a church building], and more besides.

❖ Three photos with captions added. The photos are from the Korean book, An Unofficial History of the Unification Church, and were taken by Hyo-min Eu. He explained the story behind the photos.

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

▲ Seon-gil Choi fought because she could not accept the pikareum sex rituals of her adulterous husband which went against her strongly held Presbyterian beliefs. Moon had been excommunicated from the Presbyterian Church in 1948. At that time he was jailed for bigamy with Chong-hwa Kim, a married woman with three children.

Moon was at the center of the Ewha Womans University sex scandal of early 1955

Hee-jin Moon was born to Kim Myung-hee in August 1955. Dong-sook was also born in 1955.

Seon-gil Choi eventually divorced Moon on January 8, 1957.

▲ Here is a photo from the 1960s where Moon is holding a heavy stick. There are many reports that he used such a stick on members. He mentions the use of baseball bats in a number of speeches and authorized Rev Kwak to beat members with one.

Since I was serving as a secretary to Rev. Moon at that time, I just wondered what kind of woman she was. But, looking back on it now, I wonder if she had become mentally disturbed because of Moon’s unusual relationship with women. Now I feel sympathetic towards her.”

Mr. ‘B,’ whom I met in Seoul and who was very familiar with the internal affairs of the early UC, told me, “Mrs. Choi was a thoughtful and kind woman, unlike the commonly held image she had in the church as a strong-minded woman. In Korea, a cheating spouse can be severely punished, but she never sent Moon to prison. After all [his pikareum sex restoration of many women], she protected him. If it had been my wife, that wouldn’t have been the case.”

An interview with Mrs. Choi about her arranged marriage to Founder Sun Myung Moon when he was 25.

I met Mrs. Seon-gil Choi, the former life partner of Sun Myung Moon, at a relaxing coffee shop in Seoul. As I waited, an old woman with gray hair appeared in front of me. At first she kept a stone-like expression on her face, but as time went by, she began to speak more and more. She seemed to understand some Japanese and began to smile at my jokes. I stated, “I heard that Sun Myung Moon’s first wife had died.” In response, with a somewhat lonely expression on her face, Mrs. Choi said, “I was told by my friend that I was reported to be both in the USA and in Japan.”

Mrs. Choi now lives alone in a house close to the Seoul Olympic Stadium, where a mass wedding was held by the UC last year. She has no family members. Her son, Sung-jin 文聖進, 47, born out of her marriage to Sun Myung Moon, has been with his father since their long ago divorce [in 1957], and has never visited her house, she told me.

Mr. ‘A’ told me, “She has been receiving 400,000 won (about 50,000 Japanese yen) each month. From this year, the amount she has been receiving, from some official in the UC, has been increased to one million won per month. She seems to have been living on it. She has been getting by with that money every month; she may not even want that support money. When I was shown her bank passbook, and saw how little money she had been withdrawing from it, I felt a lump in my throat.”

As we sat in the coffee shop, I asked her what she thought about Sun Myung Moon. She answered, “When I recall the situation at that time, I still feel my head starting to pound, and I feel I may go crazy.”

Despite her unpleasant memories she responded to my questions, one by one, with sincerity. She shared about her first encounter with Sun Myung Moon, and about his relationships with many other women.

She even revealed the interesting story of how those around Moon have misrepresented his academic record as a “graduate from Waseda University” to encourage her to marry him.

Mrs. Seon-gil Choi was born into a wealthy farmer’s family in Jeong-ju, now in North Korea, in 1924. She was 21 when World War II ended. When she was 18 she was presented with an opportunity for a formal introduction to a prospective marriage partner, the 24 year old Sun Myung Moon. He was from the town of Jeong-Ju, the same as her. He was said to be “a graduate from Waseda University.” She related, “A matchmaker arranged the meeting with Moon. There he told me that he had graduated from Waseda University. Also, I had a favorable impression of his appearance, unlike that of now.”

At that time in Korea, it was said that any Korean who had graduated from Waseda University was considered to be among the very elite. According to the brief biography of Sun Myung Moon in the literature of the UC of Japan, it was written that he had been “admitted to the School of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Science and Engineering, at Waseda University.” However, since 1974 his academic record had been reported to have been a fraud.

❖ Added image and explanation:

▲ The FFWPU / Unification Church of Japan produced a fake Waseda University graduation certificate for Moon!

His name is written in the Japanese style, 江本龍明 Emoto Ryumei. Below his name is his birthday, January 6, 1920 (9th year of Taisho). Moon’s date of graduation is given as September 30, 1943 (18th year of Showa). This may have been the graduation date for Waseda University, but it appears not to be the date of Moon’s actual graduation from the Technical High School, which has been given as September 18th. The fake certificate was made on October 18, 1977 (52nd year of Showa).

There is no signature. The name at the end of the certificate is Mr Murai Sukenaka, 村井資長. He was a president of Waseda University, but he was strongly opposed the Unification Church and CARP.

Mr Murai gave an interview about the Unification Church to a Japanese magazine.
元早大総長が集団結婚を徹底批判統一教会

This certificate was published in a CARP document about “The history of the Unification Church and the life of Sun Myung Moon 1920-1990” as well as in the book, 聖所を歩く Walking to the Sanctuary / Holy Place. LINK

In response to the claims of fraudulent records, the UC defended the records by saying, “We held an inquiry in Seoul and found that he graduated from an Electrical Engineering course at the Waseda High School of Engineering. It was a simple error on the side of Japan, and Sun Myung Moon should not be blamed.”

However, in our interview, Mrs. Choi testified clearly about her matchmaking meeting with Moon, “He deceived me by saying that he had graduated from Waseda University.” Mrs. Choi found the truth about Moon’s “academic record” many years after her divorce from him. In other words, her testimony proves that what the UC of Japan claimed to be a “simple mistake” was actually proclaimed as the truth by Moon’s followers from the time of his youth, and for a long time after that.

Moon stayed in Mrs. Choi’s parents’ home for the three days following their matchmaking. I replied, “Of course, and from that first night on?” To my rather rude question, she nodded. Mr. ‘A,’ who was with me, said rather disgustedly, “In Korea, there could be no ruder thing than that! What an arrogant person he is!”

Married on March 1, 1945, Mrs Choi gave birth in 1946 to Sung-jin – Moon’s first son. Her “happiness” at the birth must have lasted only for a very short time.

❖ Photo added:

▲ Seon-gil Choi and Chung-hwa Pak in Seoul, August 1992

“The truth about the decision to divorce”

I asked Mrs. Choi, “Well, after all, what was the reason for your decision to divorce?” Mrs Choi replied clearly to my question, “My husband made relationships one after another by deceiving those women. I kept thinking that I couldn’t bear such a life any longer – so this was the reason for my divorce.”

After breaking up with Mrs. Choi, Moon was married to his current wife Hak Ja Han, who was 17 years old, on March 16, 1960. Between the divorce from Mrs Choi and the marriage with Miss Han, one testimony says Moon had another woman with whom he had a child. [The child was born in Tokyo on August 17, 1955, which was 16 months before their divorce.] “The woman’s name was Myung-hee Kim 金明熙 (registered name). The name of her child with Moon was Hee-jin 文喜進, later changed to Hee-son. It is said he died as a youth in an accident.” (I was told this by a UC insider whom I met in Seoul.)

[On August 1, 1969 Hee-jin Moon was traveling alone by train. He leaned out of a window as it approached Maepo station in Chungbuk Province. The train was still traveling at some speed. His head was hit by a track-side post, and he died. He was nearly 14 years old.]

On the other hand, Mrs. Choi has been earning a bare living in Seoul for over 40 years, since her divorce from Moon. During this period the UC, which began very humbly, has developed rapidly. The family of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han own big mansions in New York and in Seoul, and have been enjoying a prosperous life. By comparison, Mrs. Choi, who must have seen Moon’s proud appearances in the newspapers and on TV, has not enjoyed such a blessed life. Recently, in fact, she became the victim of trouble – a young man in her neighborhood harassed her, slapped her face and broke her window. Listening to her story I couldn’t help but feel sympathy for her current and never-easy environment.

▲ The mansion of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in the city of Seoul

The mass weddings of the UC started in 1960. The first one (36 couples) and the second one (72 couples) are called “The Holy Weddings” and are distinguished from the subsequent mass weddings.

I asked Mr. Hyo-min Eu, who is now out of the UC, and who was one of the original 36 couples married in the second Holy Wedding, to read Pastor Kim’s memoir in its entirety. After reading it, he returned it to me without a word. There were no objections from him at all. [The first 36 couples were married in three ceremonies during 1960 and 1961. Mr. Hyo-min Eu was a 72 couple. He was promoted to the 36 couples to replace one of quite a few who had left the UC.]

(As mentioned in the previous issue of this magazine, Hyo-min Eu is the younger [cousin] of Hyo-won Eu, said to have been the author of the “Divine Principle” book of the Unification Church. Also, Mrs Shin-hee Eu, one of the women who had a pikareum ceremony with Pastor Kim, is the younger sister of [Hyo-min Eu]. [Hyo-min Eu] is one of those who know the details of the early days of the UC.)

I approached the UC once again with my findings from the interviews I’d done so far. On page 42, I’ve posted their “rebuttal” for your reference.

The UC is still shrouded in a lot of mystery. What really happened at the root of this organization? I have heard that one clue to resolving the mystery lies within the incident at the Ewha Womans University.

In 1950, in the midst of the Korean War, Sun Myung Moon fled south to Busan [from North Korea] with Won-pil Kim 金元弼 and others [Chung-hwa Pak 朴正華]. Here he started the enterprise of the UC. He moved to Seoul in 1954. In July 1955 he was arrested as the result of an incident at the Ewha Womans University 梨花女子大學校.

According to the “Dong-A Ilbo” newspaper, at that time the charge against Moon was “illegal confinement of a female follower, and evasion of military service.” (Later ‘proved’ innocent.) In September 1955 it was reported in several newspapers that Moon admitted to the judge that he had lied about his age. He was sentenced to 2 years in jail.

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

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

“No Touch” Policy on whether the Religion is a Cult

Moon, the Leader of the Unification of Christianity Church, has been Arrested and Charged with False Imprisonment.

… In addition it has been established that he falsely imprisoned Ms. Young-Il Moon (not her real name, a 22-year-old Yonsei University student) for three days and forced her to adopt his new religion.

[Her name was Soon-shil Choi, the older sister of Soon-wha Choi who gave birth to Moon’s son Samuel Park in January 1966. Soon-shil Choi attended Yonsei University and Soon-wha Choi attended Ewha Womans University.]

Moon was Found Guilty and Started a Two Year Jail Sentence in Seoul in September 1955.

[ Money and influence got him out of jail in October. ]

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

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

어제첫公判統一教會事件

어제첫공판통일교회사건

Yesterday the first trial was held in the Unification Church matter

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

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

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

동아일보 Dong-A Ilbo newspaper, September 22, 1955

文敎主에二年統一敎會事件求刑

문교주에 이년 통일교회사건구형

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

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

▲ 文鮮明 (문선명) (교주) = 懲役二年 (징역이년)

▲ 劉孝元 (유효원) = 懲役二年 (징역이년)

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

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

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

▲ Eu Hyo-won = Imprisonment for two years

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

LINK: Moon was sentenced to two years in jail

Three arguments of rebuttal by the UC of Japan
1.) With regard to the one million won paid monthly from the UC officials to Mrs. Choi: “As our corporation in Japan, we are not in a position to answer.”

2.) With regard to Sun Myung Moon’s “academic record fraud”: “We are not sure about what an intermediary has described as the educational record of Sun Myung Moon. He is a graduate of the Waseda High School of Electrical Engineering, affiliated with Waseda University.”

3.) With regard to Mrs. Choi’s testimony about Sun Myung Moon’s relationship with women: “In response to our inquiry for validation, she replied as follows: “Because I knew so many people have tried to take advantage of me, I have been trying not to meet people who wanted to talk about Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Even if I did meet them, I wouldn’t speak to them about him.” Even recently, Mr. Hyo-min Eu brought a Japanese person and asked her to verify her home town. They also asked her where they should visit to find out more about her childhood – but they never raised any topics regarding Rev. Sun Myung Moon.”

If Mr. Hyo-min Eu and the Japanese said that they learned about Rev. Sun Myung Moon from Mrs. Choi, it is not based on the truth, and is nothing but their own fabrication. Mr. Hyo-min Eu was once loved by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, but he left the UC, and is standing in a position against the church, and is the person who has been trying to defame Rev. Sun Myung Moon by repeatedly making irresponsible statements.

The fabrication of rumors of scandal around the founder of our association, labeling us as a “licentious and evil religion,” misleading public opinion by prejudice, and prejudgment, are all conventional means of religious oppression in the name of freedom of speech. Your two articles defaming Rev. Sun Myung Moon are prime examples of this.
– from the Unification Church Public Relations Department.

「最初の妻崔先吉女史が告白！」「文鮮明教祖の性の秘密」

From the book, The True Nature of Sun Myung Moon!
by Kim Myung-hee

pages 341-343

Moon abandoned his first wife

▲ Choi Seon-gil

On April 28, 1945, at the age of 25, Moon Yong-myung held a wedding ceremony with Choi Seon-gil at Jangyo Church located in Gwanseopyong, Gwanju-myeon, Jeongju County, Pyeonganbuk-do.

[Choi only married Moon because he said he was a graduate of the prestigious Waseda University in Tokyo. She later found out that was another lie. He had only attended evening classes at a Technical High School. During the days he worked to support his studies.]

Choi Seon-gil was a devout follower in the Jangyo Presbyterian Church, and following the wishes of her eldest brother, Choi Jung-gil, who was a deacon at that church, she transferred her church membership to the Reconstructionist Church. Her younger brother’s name was Choi Jung-geon, and their father was Choi Yong-il.

In the lunar month of March 1946, while living their newlywed life in Heukseok-dong, Seoul, she gave birth to their first son, Moon Seong-jin. In June 1946, Moon went north to Pyongyang, then during the January 4, 1950 Retreat in the Korean War he came south to Busan. The following year, while secretly holding meetings in Busan, he reunited with his lawful wife, Choi Seon-gil. By that time, however, women constantly surrounded Moon, and Choi, whose values did not align with Moon’s promiscuous lifestyle and religious views, clashed with her husband and made determined efforts to sever his relationships with the women around him.

As a result, Moon secretly avoided his wife. Having betrayed and abandoned even his first wife and child, he wandered through places such as Beomnaetgol (Beomcheon-dong) and Sujeong-dong in Busan, beginning to hold gatherings and evangelize centered on the “restoration principle” (the doctrine of pikareum).

Choi also sought her husband who had betrayed both her and their child, even mobilizing detectives to find him.

Because Choi knew the secret of Moon’s blood purification pikareum doctrine, whenever she went searching for him she was obstructed by fanatical followers, and on more than one occasion she even became involved in direct physical altercations.

Moon became extremely sensitive regarding his lawful wife Choi Seon-gil, and each time he used bundles of believers’ money at his disposal, squandering large sums to block Choi’s opposition activities, according to testimony by X, a former close associate who followed him at the time.

Out of burning resentment toward her betraying husband, Choi continued to pursue him, until finally on January 8, 1957, she separated from Moon through a consensual divorce.

At that time, Choi’s younger brother, Choi Jung-geon, and X, who was the Unification Church’s representative, were related by marriage, and thus they reached the conclusion of a consensual divorce between Moon and Choi.

According to testimony, X, who was then the Unification Church’s representative (and has since defected from the church), gave Choi 500,000 won as alimony, and their son Seong-jin was “exchanged” in a manner likened to the exchange of anti-communist prisoners. As a result, Choi was left alone while Moon took the son. However, the resentment embedded in Choi’s heart did not subside, and she continued to trouble Moon, leading to a vicious cycle in which the son was repeatedly taken and taken back again between the parents.

▲ Moon Seong-jin with his father and Kim Young-oon in the 1950s.

Choi’s younger brother gives the following testimony:

“At first, I too tried to understand Yong-myung, ‘that Moon cult leader,’ from the standpoint of a fellow man, and I tried to console my younger sister Seon-gil by telling her to ‘endure it.’ But now I just explode in anger, saying, ‘Yong-myeong, that son of a bitch, that bastard dog.’”

▲ Moon Seong-jin with Kim Won-pil and Park Cheong-sook. Moon later married her off to the father of Choi Soon-wha. LINK

After that, in the 1960s, Choi resolved to expose the true nature of the Unification Church to the world together with two other women (the wives of Eu Hyo-yeong and Eu Hyo-min) who had also been victimized by Moon’s group and had had their husbands taken away. She ran about in all directions pursuing this effort.

Choi then affiliated herself with Seoul’s Youngnak Church and soothed the painful wounds of betrayal through her faith, and now attends a certain church in Sangdo-dong.

In 1975, Yoo (surname omitted), who had been the Unification Church’s representative at the time of the divorce and has since defected, happened to meet one of Choi’s older brothers on the street and asked about Choi’s situation. He was told that at one time investigative authorities had contacted them, saying they would guarantee Choi’s personal safety, and that the substance of the matter was this: Moon’s younger brother, Moon Seung-gyun (representative of Korea Titanium), was secretly sending financial assistance to Choi’s home once a month without the knowledge of Unification Church members.

However, neighbors found it suspicious that a widow living alone was enjoying a comfortable life, and moreover that a middle-aged man speaking with a North Korean accent was coming and going. Suspecting that he might be a spy, they reported it to the investigative authorities.

Defectors speak with one voice in saying that the conduct of Moon, who claims to be the Returning Lord, in abandoning his devout lawful wife and remarrying a 17-year-old immature girl, Hak-ja Han (his current wife), is something that cannot be tolerated even by basic human ethics.

For that reason, his son Moon Seong-jin also must have found his father’s actions distasteful. Moreover, as the eldest brother among half-siblings born under various circumstances, and having to call and serve Hak-ja Han—who is only about three years older than himself—as his mother, he carries many unspoken worries.

▲ A dedication ceremony was held after the birth of Moon Ye-jin in 1961. Following the ceremony, Hak Ja Han put a crown on the head of Moon Seong-Jin and they took a commemorative photo.

▲ The graduation of Moon Seong-Jin from Kyunghee University’s Department of History in 1969.

p. 343

“My Father Is a Fake Second Coming Messiah”

Seong-jin Moon caused a major “letter incident” in 1974 in Japan when he personally sent private letters to ten leaders among the thirty-six Blessed Couples. The content of the letters stated: “The man you are following, our Father, is not the Second Coming Messiah, so each of you should seek your own path. It is not too late even now, so it would be best for each of you to go your own way [and make your own future].”

These letters triggered an emergency response from the Unification Church headquarters. There was a great commotion as they tried to retrieve the letters received by each leader.

Immediately afterward, the former UC chairman Kim Won-pil came to South Korea. With the excuse, or rather the explanation, that “Seong-jin was just testing your faith,” the letter incident was provisionally settled.

Seong-jin graduated from the Department of History at Kyung Hee University in 1969.

On July 18 [1973], his father held a wedding ceremony for Seong-jin with Kim Dong-sook (金東淑) in Tokyo, Japan. [It was asserted that she was] the daughter of Kim Won-pil (the former president of Ilhwa Pharmaceutical).

On May 2, 1976, while in San Francisco, US, their son was born, and the child was given the name “Shin-il-nim” (信一님).

When Seong-jin attempted to leave South Korea in 1974, he was barred from departure at Gimpo Airport in Seoul, due to having not completed his military service, yet it is curious how he later managed to leave the country.

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It seems that Moon Seong-jin has mainly lived in Japan. Seong-jin has rarely been seen at official church functions. Dong-sook has attended some since the deaths of Hyo-jin and Sun Myung Moon. She visited Moon in hospital during his final days.

Dong-sook did not resemble Won-pil Kim’s wife at all. The identity of Dong-sook’s real mother is still unknown. However, according to Nansook Hong, one mother of one of Moon’s “illegitimate” children died before 1960.

From when Dong-sook was born in 1955 she has been treated as a blessed child and was listed as such when she visited Sun Myung Moon in 2012 during his final days. She attended his funeral, and other important events such as the funeral of Hyo-jin Moon, standing beside all the other “True Children”.

Were Dong-sook and Seong-jin Moon half siblings?

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)

Moon had a girlfriend from at least 1941. She introduced Moon to Kim Baek-moon!

The Choi family’s entanglements with Moon

Sun Myung Moon’s second wife – Kim Chong-hwa in Pyongyang

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

The lie that Myung-hee Kim was raped in Japan

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

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

Sun Myung Moon’s fourth wife, Won-pok Choi

The Ewha Womans University Sex Scandal

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

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

Sun Myung Moon – Restoration through Incest