Sun Myung Moon
| Sun Myung Moon | |
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Moon in Las Vegas, Nevada, 4 April 2010
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| Born |
Mun Yong-myeong 25 February 1920 Chongju, North P'yŏng'an, Japanese Korea (now North Pyongan, North Korea) |
| Died | 3 September 2012 (aged 92) Gapyeong County, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea |
| Nationality | Korean |
| Occupation | Religious leader, businessperson, media mogul, political activist |
| Known for | Founder of Unification Church |
| Spouse(s) | Choi Sun-kil (1944–1953) Hak Ja Han (1960–present) |
| Children | 16 |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 문선명 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Mun Seon-myeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Mun Sŏnmyŏng |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul | 문용명 |
| Hanja | 文龍明 |
| Revised Romanization | Mun Yong-myeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Mun Yongmyŏng |
Sun Myung Moon (Korean 문선명 Mun Seon-myeong; born Mun Yong-myeong; 25 February 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader, businessman, and political activist. A messiah claimant, he was the founder of the Unification Church (members of which considered him and his wife Hak Ja Han to be their "True Parents"), and of its widely noted "Blessing" or mass wedding ceremony, and the author of its unique theology the Divine Principle. He was an ardent anti-communist and advocate for Korean reunification, for which he was recognized by the governments of both South and North Korea. His business interests included News World Communications, an international news media corporation known for its American subsidiary The Washington Times, and Tongil Group, a South Korean business group (chaebol), as well as various affiliated organizations.
Moon was born in what is now North Korea. When he was a child, his family converted to Christianity. In 1947 he was convicted by the North Korean government of spying for South Korea and given a five-year sentence to the Hŭngnam labor camp. In 1954, he founded the Unification Church in Seoul, South Korea based on conservative, family-oriented teachings from new interpretations of the Bible. In 1971, he moved to the United States and became well-known after giving a series of public speeches on his beliefs. In the 1982 case United States v. Sun Myung Moon he was found guilty of willfully filing false federal income tax returns and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. His case generated protests from clergy and civil libertarians.
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