Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Rev. Sun Myung Moon (Korean 문선명; born Mun Yong-myeong; 25 February 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader best known as the founder of the Unification Church, and for his claim that he was a messiah. He was also known as a media mogul and an anti-communist activist.

Moon was born Mun Yong-myeong on 25 February 1920, in modern-day Sangsa-ri (上思里), Deogun-myon, Jeongju-gun, North P'yŏng'an Province, at a time when Korea was under Japanese rule (today it lies in North Korea). When he was around 10 years old, his family converted from Confucianism to Christianity, and joined the Presbyterian Church.

In November 1943, Moon married Sun Kil Choi, and they had a son named, Sung Jin Moon (born 1946). Moon and Choi divorced in 1953.

Moon married his second wife, Hak Ja Han, on 11 April 1960. Han gave birth to 14 children; her second daughter died in infancy.

Moon died on the morning of 3 September 2012 (1:54 am KST), at the age of 92, after suffering multiple organ failure.