Hak Ja Han

Hak Ja Han
Hak Ja Han
Korean name
Hangul	한학자
Hanja
Revised Romanization	Han Hak-ja
McCune–Reischauer	Han Hakcha

Hak Ja Han (Korean: 한학자, Hanja: 韓鶴子) or Hakja Han Moon (born January 6, 1943 lunar calendar which is February 10, 1943 Gregorian) is a Korean religious leader. She and her late husband Sun Myung Moon were the leaders of the Unification Church and are generally regarded by church members as the True Parents of humankind. They married in April 1960 and have 13 children and over 40 grandchildren, as well as a growing number of great-grandchildren. She is called the True Mother and regarded as the perfect woman by church members.

In 1992, she established the Unification Church affiliated-organization Women's Federation for World Peace, and traveled the world speaking on its behalf. Han's influence within the Unification Church has steadily increased. She is Moon's designated successor as the leader of the Unification Movement, and became so, in fact, upon Moon's death in 2012. In the American media, Han is sometimes referred to as 'Mrs. Moon'; although in Korean culture as well as other East Asian cultures a married woman keeps her original family name, with the children taking their father's.

Han, whose mother later became a follower of Sun Myung Moon, was born on January 6, 1943 (lunar calendar). Han attended an all-girls high school in Korea but did not go on to college. She speaks Japanese and English as well as Korean, although she speaks English with a Korean accent. In April 1960, at the age of 17, Han, by then a member of the Unification Church (which was officially founded in 1954), married Moon who was then 40 years old. Han has 13 children, and as of 1993 had 20 grandchildren.

On July 19, 2008, Han along with her husband and 14 others, including several of their children and grandchildren, were slightly injured when a church owned Sikorsky S-92 helicopter crashed during an emergency landing and burst into flames in Gapyeong. Han and all 15 others were treated at the nearby church-affiliated Cheongshim Hospital.

Unification Church members believe that Han and Moon's wedding established a "holy marriage" which Jesus had failed to establish, and also consider it to be a holiday, called 'True Parents Day," as well as what Unification Church members refer to as the "True Family." It is believed by them to be the beginning of a new Completed Testament Age and to have fulfilled the prophesied Marriage of the Lamb in the Revelation of John.

...
Wikipedia