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Sun Myung Moon
Sun Myung Moon was a Korean religious leader, also known for his business ventures and support for conservative political causes. A messiah claimant, he was the founder of the Unification Church, whose members, popularly known as "Moonies", consider him and his wife, Hak Ja Han, to be their "True Parents". The church is widely noted for its "Blessing" or mass wedding ceremonies.
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business · Korean religious leader (1920–2012) · religious leader · businessperson · writer · also Sun Myung Moon, Moon Yong Myeong, Yong Myeong Moon, Mun Seon-myeong, Moon Sun-myung, San Myung Mun
Born 6 January 1920 · Died 2 September 2012 · Q296734
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2021· 1 entry
2020· 10 entries
Published video “IAYSP Europe”.
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Published video “Choisi”.
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Published video “Sommet international pour la Paix 2020”.
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Published video “Association Interreligieuse pour la Paix et le Développement”.
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Published video “Association Internationale des Parlementaires pour la Paix”.
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Published video “Association Internationale des Médias pour la Paix”.
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Published video “Association Internationale des Intellectuels pour la Paix”.
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Published video “Association Internationale des Économistes pour la Paix”.
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Published video “Prix SunHak de la paix 2019”.
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Published video “Rev Sun Myung Moon and Dr Hak Ja Han singing”.
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2014· 10 entries
Published video “2007/04/25 - Speech - A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will”.
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Published video “2007/05/05 2007 - Lecture - 3rd Anniversary of the Beginning of the Era After the Coming of Heaven”.
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Published video “2007/05/05 2007 - Gil Sa Ja's Testimony”.
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Published video “2007/05/05 2007 - Hyun Shil Kang's Testimony”.
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Published video “2007/06/13 - Event - 45th Day of All True Things”.
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Published video “2007/07/01 - Lecture - 17th Chil Il Jeol (Declaration Day of God's Eternal Blessing)”.
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Published video “2007/07/01 - Event - 17th Chil Il Jeol (Declaration Day of God's Eternal Blessing)”.
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Published video “2007/07/04 - Event - 2007 WCSF Opening Ceremony”.
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Published video “2007/07/04 - Speech - Three Great Subject Partners Principle from the Viewpoint of God's Providence”.
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Published video “2007/07/05 - Holy Blessing Ceremony - 2007 Cross-Cultural Marriage Blessing Ceremony”.
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2013· 1 entry
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai stated: "I remain greatly inspired by people like Reverend Dr
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2012· 3 entries
Died 2012-09-02.
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Moon was posthumously awarded North Korea's National Reunification Prize
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The South Korean press reported that Moon traveled worldwide in his private jet, which cost $50 million
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2011· 2 entries
Construction of the $18 million Yeosu Expo Hotel was completed; the hotel is located at the Moon-owned Ocean Resort in Yeosu, the venue of Expo 2012
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Master Marine opened a factory in Las Vegas, Nevada, to manufacture a 27-foot pleasure boat designed by Moon
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2009· 1 entry
Moon's autobiography, As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen (Korean: 평화를 사랑하는 세계인으로), was published by Gimm-Young Publishers in South Korea
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2005· 2 entries
In 2005, Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon, founded the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). "We support and promote the work of the United Nations and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals."
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Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon, founded the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
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2004· 2 entries
“s claiming to be the messiah, there are church members whom I met, including a close aide to Moon, who demur. A religious leader whom they respect and whose theology they believe, yes; the messiah, perhaps not.”
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Moon was honored as the Messiah at an event in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D
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2003· 2 entries
Moon sponsored the first Peace Cup international club soccer tournament
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Korean Unification Church members started a political party in South Korea
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2000· 3 entries
Awarded Ig Nobel Prize (2000).
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Moon and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan got together to sponsor the Million Family March, a rally in Washington, D
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Moon sponsored a United Nations conference that proposed the formation of "a religious assembly, or council of religious representatives, within the structure of the United Nations
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1994· 1 entry
Moon was officially invited to the funeral of Kim Il Sung in spite of the absence of diplomatic relations between North Korea and South Korea
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1992· 1 entry
About 30,000 couples took part in a ceremony and a record 360,000 couples in Seoul took part three years later
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1991· 2 entries
Moon met with Kim Il Sung, then North Korean president, to discuss ways to achieve peace on the Korean peninsula, as well as on international relations, tourism, etc
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Some American conservatives criticized Moon for his softening of his previous anti-communist stance
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1989· 2 entries
Moon founded Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma, the second most successful soccer club in South Korea, having won a record 7 league titles, 2 FA Cups, 3 League Cups, and 2 AFC Champions League titles
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Moon founded Universal Ballet Academy, which later changed its name to Kirov Academy of Ballet, in Washington, D
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1986· 2 entries
It produced the anti-communist documentary film Nicaragua Was Our Home
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Advised his followers to open a thousand restaurants in America
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1985· 1 entry
And his wife received Doctor of Divinity degrees from Shaw University
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1984· 1 entry
Moon founded the $8 million Universal Ballet project, with Soviet-born Oleg Vinogradov as its art director and Moon's daughter-in-law Julia as its prima ballerina
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1982· 4 entries
The Washington Times was founded by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with Moon, which also owned newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America, as well as the news agency Un
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Moon sponsored the film Inchon, a historical drama about the Battle of Inchon during the Korean War
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Had 808 participants from over 100 countries
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Following an IRS investigation, Moon was convicted in the United States of conspiracy and tax evasion by filing incorrect federal income tax returns totaling less than $8,000
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1981· 1 entry
Said that he himself was a victim of racial prejudice in the United States (concerning his prosecution on tax charges in United States v
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1980· 3 entries
Entitled "The Way of Tuna", in which he claimed that "After we build the boats, we catch the fish and process them for the market, and then have a distribution network
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Moon asked church members to found CAUSA International as an anti-communist educational organization, based in New York
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Moon gave a sermon in which he said, "This ocean business is really reserved for Unification Church
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1977· 1 entry
The Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations of the United States House of Representatives, while investigating the Koreagate scandal, found that the South Korean National I
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1976· 1 entry
And 1977, the Unification Church invested nearly a million dollars into the American seafood industry
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1975· 1 entry
Against North Korean aggression in Seoul and a speech at an event organized by the Unification Church in Washington, D
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1974· 2 entries
Moon asked church members in the United States to support President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal, when Nixon was being pressured to resign his office
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Urged Unification Church members to support an African-American president of the United States: "We have had enough of white presidents
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1973· 1 entry
“Master Speaks: The Significance of the Training Session (1973-05-17)”
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1972· 2 entries
Moon offered predictions on the decline of communism, based on the teachings of the Divine Principle: "After 7,000 biblical years—6,000 years of restoration history plus the millennium, the time of completion—communism w
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Moon founded the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, a series of scientific conferences
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1971· 2 entries
Moon moved to the United States, which he had first visited in 1965, and eventually settled into a 35-room mansion on an estate in Irvington, New York
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Moon moved to the United States and became well known after giving a series of public speeches on his beliefs
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1964· 1 entry
Moon founded the Korean Culture and Freedom Foundation, which promoted the interests of South Korea and sponsored Radio Free Asia
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1963· 1 entry
By Moon as a nonprofit organization to provide revenue for the church
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1962· 1 entry
Moon and other church members founded the Little Angels Children's Folk Ballet of Korea, a children's dance troupe that presents traditional Korean folk dances
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1961· 1 entry
For members of the early church in Seoul
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1954· 1 entry
Moon formally founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Seoul and fathered an illegitimate child (who died in 1969)
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1948· 1 entry
Was sentenced to five years at Hungnam labor camp, though in 1950, during the Korean War, he was liberated by United Nations troops and allegedly traveled by foot to Busan, (South) Korea
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1946· 1 entry
The Soviet-controlled North Korean government imprisoned and, he claims, tortured him
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1945· 1 entry
“Thank God, not a single nuclear weapon was used against mankind since 1945.”
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1943· 1 entry
Returned to Seoul and, in 1944, married his first wife, Sun-kil Choi (최선길; 崔先吉; Choe Seon-gil)
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1941· 1 entry
Moon began studying electrical engineering at Waseda University in Japan
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-01-06.
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1917· 1 entry
Could maintain itself for approximately 60 years and reach its peak
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