updated February 14, 2026
Major testimony on the “blood separation (pikareum sex ritual) issue” in the Unification Church
A former Unification Church senior leader speaks out: “The Lies of Founder Sun Myung Moon”
Friday Japanese magazine September 3, 1993 (pages 6-7)
Interviewed by Mr. Ryo Hagiwara (On-the-ground reporting in South Korea)
▲ Left: Founder Sun Myung Moon, whose claims are rebutted by a former top leader.
▲ Center: Mr. Hyo-min Eu responding to an interview in the garden of his home in Seoul.
“All of Sun Myung Moon’s claims are lies. The whole incident was entirely about women.”
Hyo-min Eu emphatically declared this, waving his hands energetically as he spoke forcefully in response to journalist Hagiwara Ryo.
Mr. Eu, aged 72, was a member when the Unification Church was founded in May 1954. He was in the elite church group known as the “36 Blessed Couples.” Of course, Mr. Eu himself was a top executive, but he left the church [in the 1970s]. He now runs a firearms manufacturing company.
What Mr. Eu was speaking about so heatedly is the so-called “blood separation issue.” “Blood separation” is said to refer to the way in which the founder, Mr. Moon, supposedly “saved” [or purified] female believers through [three] acts of sexual intercourse.
[This was known as “pikareum” in Korean. pi=blood, kareum=separation; chiwake in Japanese.]
The actor, Mr. Atsuo Nakamura, recently stated: “There existed a sex ritual called pikareum in the Unification Church.” [Mr. Nakamura was well-known in Japan as an actor. He later became a politician, and was serving in the Japanese National Diet (parliament) when he spoke.]
This prompted the church to file a lawsuit against Mr. Nakamura claiming the allegation was “completely unfounded” and the subject became a public controversy.
The Unification Church has categorically denied the claim, stating: “There is no such thing as pikareum, either doctrinally or in practice, in our church.”
Added information and photo:
The Unification Church lost the lawsuit against Mr. Nakamura. Official Unification Church lectures on the “Original Divine Principle,” which included changing the blood lineage through sex rituals, were given in Japan in the 1980s and again in 1991-92 then taught by Yoshiaki Hiro, Kunio Sano and Yasutomo Shirai. Mr. Takeru Kamiyama was scheduled to speak but could not due to serious health problems. Since at least 2012 the lectures have been given globally by Jin-hun Yong and other top UC lecturers. The contents explain Sun Myung Moon could only cleanse women of original sin through pikareum sex. Since 2014 Hyung-jin Moon and Kook-jin Moon have taught that it was necessary for their father to womb cleanse women through pikareum sex.
Hyung-jin Moon VIDEO. Kook-jin Moon VIDEO
▲ Mr. Moon with many young women who all needed to be “restored”. The wife of Kwak Chung-hwan is front right.
The reason the term “pikareum sex” entered public discourse in the first place was the incident Mr. Eu refers to as “that incident.” In July 1955, a series of suspicious rumors arose concerning Mr. Moon and female students and married women connected to Ewha Womans University. Mr. Moon and five leaders, including Mr. Eu, were arrested on suspicion of “illegal imprisonment” [of a 22 year-old female Yonsei University student, document forgery and draft evasion],” among other charges. After a three-month trial, Mr. Moon was acquitted, while Mr. Eu received a sentence of eight months in prison. This is the so-called “Ewha Womans University Incident.”
[See a few of the many newspaper reports of the scandal below.]
The Unification Church’s position on this case is as follows: “Reverend Sun Myung Moon and others were detained [in July] on suspicion of draft evasion and illegal confinement, but the trial focused on draft evasion. Ultimately, Reverend Moon was acquitted of that charge as well. Therefore, there was no pikareum” said Mr. Mok Noe-hak 牧瀬学, the director of public relations.
[In fact Sun Myung Moon admitted in court to falsifying his age and was sentenced to two years in jail. This was reported in several September 1955 newspapers. However, he was suddenly released after dark on October 4th; the other men were released later. Soon-shil Choi, who had been charged with “mediation of sexual misconduct” was released earlier due to the influence of her wealthy father.]
The church further cites precedents such as a former member receiving an actual prison sentence in 1976 for publishing writings about pikareum, and a journalist in 1983 being ordered to pay damages for criticizing pikareum, arguing that the court rulings in the Ewha Womans University Incident constitute strong proof that pikareum did not exist.
However, the situation is not so simple. Mr. Eu himself, who received a prison sentence in that very trial, has now offered testimony directly contradicting Mr. Moon’s and the church’s claims. At first, Mr. Eu was guarded, saying, “It’s not the right time yet,” but gradually he opened up and made several significant statements.
“According to Unification Church restoration doctrine, Eve, the first human ancestor, fell by having sex with the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Therefore, the restoration of fallen humanity must also be carried out through sex. In the church, this act was called seongyeoksa 性役事 (a necessary sexual rite).”
This is how Mr. Eu explained the definition of “pikareum” at the time. Regarding Mr. Moon’s acquittal, he added:
“That was because the women involved and their husbands did not file complaints. Left with no choice, the prosecution charged him only with violation of the Military Service Act for falsifying his age to evade conscription. But in reality, it was all about problems with women.”
Fully aware that a tape recorder was running, the former top executive stated this unequivocally.
Journalist Hagiwara also obtained testimony on the pikareum issue from Kim Deok-jin (80), a composer who joined shortly after the church’s founding and left [in the 1960s]:
“By having relations with a woman who had been pikareum “womb cleansed” by Sun Myung Moon himself, I inherited sacred blood. After that, I myself performed pikareum with sixteen women. Those women then did pikareum with other men. When I counted it all up, it came to seventy-two people in total. It was a sex relay.”
These testimonies by Mr. Eu and others concerning the “Ewha Womans University Incident,” which the Unification Church cites as proof that pikareum did not exist, carry enormous impact precisely because they come from the people directly involved.
END
Additional information:
Soon-shil Choi, the sister of Soon-wha, and several professors were interrogated by the police during the 1955 Ewha scandal. In his journal Hyo-won Eu (the cousin of Hyo-min Eu) mentions seeing them at the police station when he was also arrested.
The “Three Day Ceremony” is a three day sex ritual required by all Unification Church members before they can be qualified as “Blessed”. It is symbolic pikareum.
Change of Blood Lineage: The Real Experience of Salvation by the Messiah
Sun Myung Moon
speech given on October 13, 1970 in Seoul, Korea
“The realm of total perfection cannot be achieved without a condition for restoring fallen Eve. The Holy Spirit and Jesus must give rebirth centering upon original love. In order for Jesus to be born, God in His providence prepared a certain historical foundation of heart. That providence must involve the womb of a woman.” …
“A person is born through a man’s seed going into a woman. Where does the way of reversal begin? It is within the woman’s womb. The condition must be established so that history is reversed in the womb. For complete restoration, the starting point is the seed which exists in the body of a male. The condition must be established in which the seed within a male is united with God’s love. Without establishing that condition, complete reversal of the blood lineage cannot be established. Religion must follow God’s way. That is why a world level religion must teach the necessity for rebirth. Therefore, Christianity has become a world religion both in concept and in reality. It teaches that everybody must be reborn, just as Jesus told Nicodemus, ‘Unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ (John 3:3)”
Hyung Jin Moon confirms his father had sex with Six Marys
Published on May 19, 2015. Transcript from video:
26:00 “I really feel that this issue about the six Marys is at the core. It’s interesting because we were already preparing a lecture on the six Marys. When was this in 2010 I believe or 2011? We had already given lectures on the six Marys and we have tried to get the information on the six Marys. And it’s disappeared. Oh whoops I don’t have on our computer anymore. Whoops we don’t have it on the computer. So we had to get it from somebody who was in those lectures who took notes on the six Marys lecture. Because guess what folks? Even though it is more comfortable to hide it under the rug and be fraudulent about the whole situation and try to just convince people of their own current times, it’s easier to do that. It’s easier to do that what the church, what mother is doing. Hide it! Don’t talk about it! Don’t bring it up! It’s gonna cause problems. So easy to do that. That’s the temptation. But guess what? Just like the Mormons 200 years later. 200 years later are dealing with the issue around their founder. They’re still dealing with. You understand folks. It never goes away. It will never go away!”
35:00 “For him to come and take all the women of this world and be their spouse and to have children from every single one of those people. And kill off Satan’s blood lineage. I don’t care if that makes you feel uncomfortable. I don’t care if that makes you feel unnerved. That’s the quickest way to do it.”
43:10 “He says in public, he says, this only contains 80% of my autobiography. Right? Some of the Japanese sisters maybe have heard that. And then he goes on to call up the 4 great saints’ wives. You know Mrs. Jesus and Mrs. Buddha and Mrs. Who is it? Muhammad no and Mrs. Confucius so he says this only has 80% of my life story and then he calls up those ladies. See what you don’t realize about who those ladies are. They’re part of the six Marys.”
48:30 “You see if you don’t understand the bride of Christ, the brides of Christ and you don’t understand the three day ceremony, you have no way to explain why father had to walk that course of having those relationships. What is your explanation? What is it? The only way you can explain this is to say that well I guess father was weak in the flesh. But then if you say that you’re saying that God is weak in the flesh.”
49:40 “What is it? How do you explain the six Marys? How do you explain those relationships beyond the six Marys? How do you do it? And still believe in Father? You can’t. You cannot.”
1:04:35 “I remember one time in Washington DC they were having an argument. And mother brought this issue out and she condemned father for it. If you, If I didn’t save you from that you would have had children from many, many different bellies is what she said to him.”
Six Marys: “there are representative women through which [Sun Myung Moon] transfers his seed” Kook-jin Moon
Bluestone Testimony Night with Kook Jin Moon July 21, 2017
Transcript from video:
1:32:40
Kook Jin Justin Moon: We’re the only place now where OSDP can be heard. (Original Substance of the Divine Principle)
1:39:44
Kook Jin: We are after all, the orthodox church. People who follow the Han mother [Hak Ja Han] are heretics.
https://youtu.be/a7Efx9bDY1s?t=6350
1:46:00
Kook Jin: The whole notion of Six Marys, or 60 Marys or 600 Marys is basically the process of restoration because when the world was created, it was created as one man and one woman. And so that was supposed to be the start of human history. But the world progressed from that family level, to the social, clan, national and world level. So there has been an expansion of human history, an expansion of the fallen lineage. So when you get to the point of the mission of the messiah, the messiah actually has to reverse that fall. So that means that the world level has to reduced to the individual level. It means all the women in the world, 3.5 billion women, has to become one woman. So basically what the messiah comes to do is he comes to marry the object partner. Initially there was only one object partner, when the messiah came there were 3.5 billion object partners, and so actually if you are looking at the process of restoration every single object partner [woman] in the world is actually supposed to receive the messiah’s seed. But that is what the Six Marys providence is about. Since the messiah physically can’t be giving the seed to every single woman there are representative women through which he transfers his seed representatively to all the women of the world. And so that process of restoration is a one time event which the Lord of the Second Coming does. And once it is fulfilled then it restores the relationship back to one man and one woman.
So that is the difference in understanding, is that the messiah comes and has a unique role. He comes fully as a man but he is also fully God, and that is the unique nature of the Lord of the Second Coming. And the unique mission of the Lord is to restore what was lost. And so that process of restoration happens only once. And so once that is done then it goes back again to the original order which is one man, one woman. That’s what the [Divine] Principle requires and if you study Principle and you understand Principle you can understand theologically why it has to be like that.
1:48:35
Member: We were many years in the church and we didn’t hear about it.
Kook Jin: That’s the problem…
Member: If so Jesus, even he didn’t die, so he had also Six Marys, the same thing.
Kook Jin: Well he should have 6, 60, 600, 6,000 the same thing, sure, absolutely.
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Kook Jin: Shame? The problem is not the shame. The problem is that the blood lineage was changed. The problem with Adam is that he basically he had his lineage changed because he was dominated by Eve. So that is why when you do the three day ceremony you have that reversing of that order, where the woman is on top and then the man gets on top at the end, so he is restored from the archangelic position to the position of son. So in order to reverse the pattern of the fall, the father who comes, the Christ who comes, has to dominate woman and has to be on top.
1:57:10
Member: It would be good if in OSDP [Original Substance of the Divine Principle] we teach really deeply about the Six Marys as part of it.
Kook Jin Moon: Well, we teach about the Six Marys. That’s the position we have to be very clear on that is the nature of restoration. The nature of restoration requires God’s seed to be implanted in every woman. …
So those kind of aspects of the theology we need to, as we go forward, to make it very clear what our theological position is. It should not be hidden. It should be front and center whenever we teach the principle. Mission of the messiah, what the messiah must do.
Member: That is the essence of the Blessing isn’t it. The messiah’s seed through the Blessing into Blessed marriages.
Kook Jin: [agrees] So we teach it and then we teach that that mission was accomplished by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and that is why we are back to the original order of creation, of one man and one woman. That’s what we need to teach. So actually that teaching is essential. And that is really the big dividing line between the orthodox church and the heretic church. The orthodox church sees that the messiah fulfilling the mission of the messiah. The heretic church sees the messiah as a man with weakness who needs to be saved by the harlot mother [Hak Ja Han]. So that is why we cannot hide or be ashamed of the mission of the messiah. We have to go forward in talking about the mission of the messiah.
The Unification Church: Accusations of immorality
Author Ruth A. Tucker (PhD, Northern Illinois University) has taught mission studies and church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Calvin Theological Seminary. She is the author of dozens of articles and eighteen books. Here is an extract from Another Gospel: Cults, Alternative Religions, and the New Age Movement.
pages 249-250
“From the very beginning the movement was shrouded in controversy.… Moon’s critics argue that Moon’s church activities involved more than developing new doctrine—that according to a newspaper account. “A third jailing in 1955 reportedly was for ‘causing social disorder’ and having bad morals stemming from ritual sex with women in his church.” Followers of Moon strongly deny such allegations, claiming that Moon was arrested for draft evasion and later acquitted of the charges. [The church produced a fake certificate of innocence.] The accusation of practicing the ritual of pikareum (“cleansing of the blood”) was specifically the charge that “Moon purportedly performed intercourse with each female initiate to purify her of the pollution she had inherited from Eve.” So widely believed was the charge that “the Korean National Council of Churches, representing various mainline Christian denominations, condemned the movement and refused it membership.”
The accusations of practicing ritual sex rites are the most devastating charges lodged against Moon during his earIy ministry. Are they warranted, or were they simply fabricated by enemies? Sontag rightly points out that “Every strong religious leader has been charged with sexual irregularities. Such stories surround Jesus too and survive in the early literature.” Yet, the accusations against Moon were made in many cases by reputable individuals. A Presbyterian minister in Seoul [Rev. Won Il Chei] gave the following testimony: “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.”
While such stories may be scurrilous lies, critics argue that they are made more believable within the context of Unification theology. A one-time supporter of Moon made the following observations of the sex allegations:
It is entirely possible that those sexual rituals were a part of the early church in Korea. Since original sin came through the woman’s [Eve’s] intercourse with Lucifer through which she received his evil characteristics, it is perfectly logical that the reversal of this, woman’s intercourse with the perfect man through which she could receive his perfect characteristics, would liquidate original sin. Then, as Adam received Satan’s evil characteristics from Eve through intercourse, so man would receive perfect characteristics through intercourse with the woman.
In 1960 Moon married again—some say for the fourth time. His new bride was Hak Ja Han, an eighteen-year-old follower who was less than half his age. That marriage is referred to as “the Marriage of the Lamb.” and through it, the couple became the Father and the Mother “of the universe.” Han, according to Moon, had been preparing for this role since the age of four, at which time she was blessed by a Korean mystic. “Being so young at the time, she did not remember the experience. But Moon was aware of it from the moment he met her.” Moon’s own marriage would reverse the sin of Adam and Eve that had infected all mankind.
According to Robert Boettcher: Once the vows of matrimony were exchanged, Moon as Perfect Adam could not let himself fall into the same trap as the first Adam. He “snatched her out of the Satanic world” and taught her to obey. Since Adam fell by being dominated by Eve, he had to reverse the precedent by achieving complete domination over his wife. Obedience training went from formation to growth and perfection, to the point where, after three years, he says, she would sacrifice her life if he so ordered.”
A letter from the Church of the Nazarene in Seoul, reproduced on pages 9-11 of an October 1975 FBI Report (San Francisco office) gives an interesting summary of the official and the unofficial theology of the Unification Church.
The letter indicates that he has divorced three wives having had one child by each of them. He was accused in 1955 of conducting a group sex orgie…
The letter alleges that actually Moon borrowed his doctrines from those taught at the Monastery of Israel [of Kim Baek-moon].
The letter additionally states that the group also secretly observes such other beliefs [besides what was registered with the authorities] 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 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.
FBI and other reports on Sun Myung Moon
The scandal was covered in many Korean newspapers from March to October 1955. There were also some reports in the Japanese press. Here are some examples:
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 Pyungbok.” 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.”
梨大에除籍沙汰 邪敎徒라고敎授學生17名
이대에 제적사태 사교도라고 교수학생 17명
Students and professors, 17 in total, get expelled by Ewha Womans University due to their cult involvement
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.”
July 6, 1955 Seoul Daily News 서울일보 page 3
Moon Sun Myung was “Misleading women into fornication through eloquence”
July 7, 1955 — Dong-A Ilbo (東亞日報)
Newspaper article reporting the “July 4 Incident”
The Behavior of “The Son of God”
Numerous Women Deceived
Actions of the “Leader Moon” 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 or more. The person was a 22 year-old female Yonsei university student, Choi Soon-shil who was starved 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 mistress [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.
◊ 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.
◊ Organizational Status — Branches exist in Busan and Daegu, with the headquarters located in Seoul. The number of believers in each area is approximately 250, totaling about 700 people. By gender, the membership is evenly split between men and women, and it is said that their level of education is fairly high.
* Some of these details were reported in the July 6 edition of the Dong-A Ilbo.
“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 attempted to coerce her into adopting the faith.”
July 7, 1955 Seoul Daily News 서울일보 ソウル日報
“Four married women were raped” by Sun Myung Moon or members of the Unification Church.
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
Six individuals arrested and sent to the prosecutor — Leader Moon and other members of the ‘Unification Church’.
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
[Choi Soon-shil abruptly left the Unification Church in 1959, just before Moon wanted to marry her. She was the sister of Choi Soon-wha who is known as “Annie Choi” in the US where she lives. Soon-wha has spoken about sex rituals involving Sun Myung Moon with six women in a circle; Sun Myung Moon mounted each in turn. This first happened to her in 1953-54 when she was seventeen. In 1965 Sun Myung Moon impregnated her and she gave birth to his son, Sam Park, in Washington DC in January 1966. See link below.]
▲ Restoring so many women was tiring for Mr. Moon.
Kim Deok-jin – Someone who actually practised Moon’s sex relay
▲ Mr Moon is fourth from the left.
September 21, 1955 Dong-A Ilbo (East Asia Daily News) 동아일보 東亞日報
▲ The defendants in front of the judge at the trial. ‘X’ marks the leader, Sun Myung Moon. Eu Hyo-min is in the center. The others are Eu Hyo-won, Eu Hyo-yeong and Kim Won-pil.
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. [The afternoon hearing was at 2:30p.m.] 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 22, 1955 Dong-A Ilbo 동아일보 東亞日報
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)
▲ 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 Hyo-won Eu, “Chief Judge Hak-no Yoon proclaimed that Teacher was innocent” in spite of the fact that Moon had admitted his guilt in court on September 20.
Yeong-choon Oh’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. LINK
「血分け問題」に重大証言 (The original Japanese Friday magazine text)
Eu Hyo-min and Kim Deok-jin interviewed ON VIDEO
Eu Hyo-min, one of the 36 couples, gives his testimony: exploited by Moon, then shunned by Moon.
Moon found guilty in 1955; started two year jail sentence
Professor Kim: “The Ewha University reputation damaged for some years”
The Ewha Womans University Sex Scandal of 1955 as told in the newspapers
The original 1955 Korean newspaper articles:
1955년 이화여대에서 일어난 문선명 섹스 스캔들
統一教會 事件 통일교회사건 1955.7.4.
The Consequences of the Ewha Womans University sex scandal
Moon talks about the Ewha Womans University scandal
What was Moon teaching? Pikareum – Moon explains in his speeches
The testimonies of Moon’s first wife, Choi Seon-gil, and Kim Deok-jin
from the Japanese Magazine, “Weekly Post,” October 8, 1993
The above magazine article in Japanese: LINK
The testimony of Moon’s first wife, Mrs 崔先吉 = Choi Seon-gil
from the Japanese magazine 週刊ポスト Shūkan Post October 8, 1993
Pak Chung-hwa interviewed about the “SEX relays” of Sun Myung Moon
Pak Chung-hwa – “Sex relays” Shūkan Gendai interview (in JAPANESE)
Moon’s theology for his pikareum sex rituals with all the 36 wives
Sun Myung Moon – Restoration through Incest
Ritual Sex in the Unification Church – Kirsti L. Nevalainen
The six ‘wives’ of Sun Myung Moon
The Choi family’s entanglements with Moon
Kim Myung-hee, the third wife of Sun Myung Moon
Sam Park video – recorded at ICSA in July 2014
Sam Park video transcript (July 2014)
This Mother Jones article also confirms the sex rituals of Sun Myung Moon:
EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Love Child Rev. Sun Myung Moon Desperately Tried to Hide
How the family values crusader made the publisher of the Washington Times raise his secret son.
Mother Jones (November 2013) by Mariah Blake.
Extract:
Sam Park, who has shaggy salt-and-pepper hair and a mellow demeanor, resides in Phoenix with his 77-year-old mother, Annie Choi. Their story, which I touched on in a recent article about the unraveling of Moon’s empire in The New Republic, casts a spotlight on the hidden history of Moon’s church, a strange but influential institution that has maintained close ties to the Republican Party since the Reagan era.
Choi joined Moon’s church along with her mother and sister in the early 1950s. At the time, the family lived in the southern Korean city of Pusan. Moon had fled there after escaping a communist labor camp in North Korea, where he was imprisoned, reportedly on bigamy charges. Initially, he had only a few dozen followers, who met in a two-room house on the outskirts of town and were expected to sacrifice everything for the church. For young female members, this included their virginity. Choi says the initiation rites for early female disciples involved having sex with Moon three times. She also alleges that Moon kept a stable of a half-dozen concubines, known as the Six Marys, and inducted her into the group when she was 17. Sometimes, she adds, he would assemble them all in a circle and take turns mounting them. Choi’s account is consistent with those of other early followers, who claim that Moon’s church began as an erotic cult, with Moon “purifying” female followers through sexual rites. (One former acolyte published a book on the topic in Japan. [The Tragedy of the Six Marys—the real Satan is Sun Myung Moon!!])
According to Choi, Moon persuaded her mother, whose husband owned one of Korea’s largest insurance companies, that their family played a special role in God’s plan: Just like Jacob, who married two women and had children by them and their handmaids, Moon would marry both of her daughters, and they would give birth to the world’s first sin-free children. Choi’s mother was so devoted to this vision that in 1954 she sold one of the family’s homes and gave the proceeds to Moon. Soon thereafter, he opened a church in Seoul and his movement began to flourish. By 1959, more than 30 churches had sprung up around Korea, and Moon’s teachings started to spread to other countries.
But that year Moon’s marriage plans hit a snag, when Choi’s older sister [Soon-shil Choi] abandoned the church and broke off the engagement. Rather than marry Choi, in late 1959, Moon, who was then 40, began casting about for another bride. He quickly settled on his cook’s daughter, a shy 17-year-old girl named Hak Ja Han. After their wedding in early 1960, Moon—whose church was rapidly expanding into the United States—began teaching that marriage was the key to salvation. He and his new wife would create the “prototype of the perfect family” and give birth to sin-free children. Followers could join his sinless family by keeping themselves chaste until Moon married them off in one of his now-famous mass-wedding ceremonies and then building strong, faithful families of their own.
▲ The Rev. Sun Myung Moon (center) with Annie Choi (third from the left), Bo Hi Pak (far right), and other church members in front of the Washington Monument in 1965. Mrs Pak is on the left. She pretended to be the mother of Sam Park on his birth certificate.
During this era, Moon preached that sex outside of marriage was the worst possible sin. But Choi and other insiders allege that Moon’s philandering continued long after his own marriage. Choi says she kept having sex with him regularly until 1964, when she moved to the United States to attend Georgetown University, in Washington, DC. Prior to her departure, Choi claims, she and Moon were married in a secret ceremony at his church. The following year, Moon made his first trip to the United States and stayed for several months with his deputy, Bo Hi Pak, near the nation’s capital. During the trip, he spent a good deal of time with Choi. (One photo from the era shows the two of them and Pak huddled in front of the Washington Monument.) Before long, Choi was carrying Moon’s child [Sam Park].