36 Couples – many left the FFWPU / Unification Church

Updated December 16, 2018

▲ In Seoul, after the final ceremony for the 36 couples, there was a public procession of the couples in cars. Moon always sought maximum publicity from the mass marriages he held.



This list should be an accurate list of the original 36 couples who were married by Moon. During 1960-1961 he held three ceremonies. He then put all the couples together as one group which became known as ‘the 36 couples’. When some defected they were replaced by couples from the 72 couples group or others. For example Mr. Moon said: “No one knows, if Seuk Joon-ho [Dr. Seuk, the son of Mrs. Choi Won-pok] enters the 36 couples…” January 2, 1997, São Paulo, Brazil.

husband wife

1. Eu Hyo-won Sa Kil-ja (Ewha student) See link below

2. Kim Won-pil Chong Dal-ok both died

3. Kim Young-hwi Chong Dae-hwa (Ewha)

4. Lee Yo-han Won Shim-hee

5. Eu Hyo-young Kim Hwa-yong defected from UC

6. Lee Sang-hun Kim Han-sook husband died

7. Kim In-chul Gu Jong-sook inactive

8. Hwang Choong-hun Kim Kum-rang

9. Moon Seong-yong Jang Pyong-ju

10. Hwang Hwan-chae Park Young-sook (Ewha)

11. Lee Jae-seok Kang Chung-won (Ewha)

12. Hong Chong-bok Seo Myung-jin (Ewha)

13. Choi Young-seok Kim Moon-hee inactive ‘Tiger’ Choi

14. Lee Soo-kyeong Kim Ki-young

15. Chong Han-chae Park Seung-hee (Ewha) husband died

16. Hong Sung-pyo Yu Gil-ja defected from UC

17. Han In-soo Lee Sun-goo husband died

(2nd wife: Kim Sook-Ja (Ewha))

18. Pak Bo-hi Yoon Ki-sook

19. Han Sang-kook Lim Byung-sook Fraser Report

20. Kim ‘David SC’ Sang-chul Kang Ui-hong husband died

21. Ahn Chang-sung Choi Ye-chong

22. Lee Gi-seok Chi Saeng-ryon (aka Malsook Lee in US) (Ewha)

Her original name before joining was Chi Mal-sook.

Her husband died in 1972; she died in 2018 in the US.

23. Choi Bong-choon Shin Mi-shik (Ewha)

This is “Papasan Choi” who left and gave this statement in Japan

24. Chong Su-won Kim Kyong-nam

25. Han Sang-kil Kim Chong-eun (Ewha) She has Alzheimer’s

26. Kim Chan-kyun Choi Young-ja

27. Kwak Chung-hwan Yoon Jong-eun defected to Hyun-jin Moon

28. Kim Byung-ho Han Young-shim

29. replaced

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31. replaced

32. replaced

33. replaced

34. Park Chong-goo Choi Kum-soon ‘Tiger’ Park died in 1982

35. Choi Chu-won Lee Hong-yeon

36. Song Moon-kyu Cho Min-ja defected

Song Moon-kyu

(January 9, 1983 Washington, D.C.)

“I was number 36. Mr. Choi was number 35. Tiger Park was number 34. The three of us formed a trinity.”

http://www.tparents.org/library/unification/Talks/Song/Song-830109a.htm

Some of the replacement couples:

32. Eu Hyo-min Na Soon-yol defected in 1992 - see below

33. Lee Chin-tae wife unknown defected from UC

34. Han In-ju wife unknown defected from UC

35. Lee Chun-yong wife unknown defected from UC

36. Hong Kwang-chul [wife may be Choi Myung-Ja]

This list was compiled in the early 1990s. Others will have died or defected since then.

▲ Here are 12 of the Ewha Womans University students who were expelled because of the“scandalous rites” of the Unification Church. After their expulsion, the students managed to meet President Kim Hwallan on May 23, 1955. She stood by her decision. This picture was taken on campus after the meeting.

(Top from left) Seo Myung-jin, Lee Gye-soon*, Sa Gil-ja, Chi Saeng-ryeon**, Park Young-sook, Kang Jung-won and Chung Dae-hwa (who was later married to Kim Young-whi)

(Bottom from left) Choi Soon-wha (the mother of Sam Park), Yim Seung-hee***, Kim Jung-eun, Shin Mi-shik (later known as Mamasan Choi) and Park Seung-kyu.

* Lee Gye-soon entered Kyunghee University in 1957. She left the Unification Church over 50 years ago and had a successful career as a professor.

** Before Chi Saeng-ryeon joined she was known as Chi Mal-sook, and after she moved to the US in 1973 she was known as Mal-sook Lee.

*** Her name may be 朴承姫 Park Seung-hee and not 林 Yim or Lim Seung-hee.

Kim Yun-rye was also expelled but later made a pledge to give up the Unification Church, and Ewha Womans University allowed her to return to her studies.

Eight of the expelled students entered other universities in 1956.

Ewha in the list of 36 couples = Ewha Woman’s University students. These ten women joined as students during the Ewha University Sex Scandal of 1955. There were other students who joined, but they were not included in the 36 couples marriage, which took place in stages during 1960-1961.

The Hongs (couple 16) left in the 1990s. They are the parents of Nansook Hong. Her brother, Jin-whi Hong, was married to Ye Jin Moon. He left before Nansook – and he helped Nansook to escape the East Garden compound.

Moon bought a house for each of the 36 couples. Apparently, because Korea is a “low-trust” nation, this was one way of trying to ensure their loyalty.

Moon: “In Korea I bought houses for many early members of our Church and in the future I would like to take the responsibility of buying houses for all the black, white and yellow people. I am the only one in history who is doing this, but it isn’t easy.” October 3, 1976 Belvedere, New York. Translator: Bo Hi Pak.

The 36 couples were the first of two or three “Royal Blessings”. They definitely included the 36 and 72 couples and probably included the 124 couples. The wives from the “Royal Blessings” were all “purified” by Mr. Moon. The “Royal Couples” were also known as Mr. Moon’s “Tribe”. More is explained in this Shukan Post October 15, 1993 magazine article, published at the same time as Mr. Chong-hwa Pak’s book.

Some of the 36 couples became quite wealthy and lived in expensive properties. Some had Japanese members helping in their homes.

Moon kept many of the 36 couples separated from their spouses for years and years. This caused some couples great heartache – for example Kim Won-pil was one who longed to be with his wife. It caused complications in other couples.

It is a fact that the 36 couples all had “womb cleansing” pikareum sex rituals with Mr. Moon. The theology was explained to Japanese members in the early 1990s by Mr. Yoshiaki Hiro, Mr. Kunio Sano and Mr. Yasutomo Shirai. (Mr Takeru Kamiyama was to be the main lecturer, but he was in hospital with stomach problems.) There had also been lectures given in Japan about pikareum in the 1980s by a lecturer called Ota.

Here are some further quotes from Moon about the 36 couples: “I have received many such certificates from Satan. One of the most dramatic was during the Blessing of the 36 couples. Incredible controversy erupted at that time; people were praying to God, “Please don’t let Reverend Moon take my son away. Let him die tonight instead.” … At the time of the 36 couple Blessing, the entire nation of Korea opposed me. I was a villain in the eyes of the country.” December 27, 1981, Belvedere, New York.

“This is the first group of people I blessed. These cover every facet of our society every group of society so for everyone who accepts the principle there is room to go to heaven. They have their own ladder to climb up. They have their own channel. Do you understand? I want you to understand that I opened 36 doors so that every person here on earth has one door to get into. No opportunity is lost, there is always a door open for everyone out there, once they accept and repent they can go through one door which is the mercy of God.” May 20, 1978, London.

“All women’s love should unite with me. The 36 couples should not think about their own family, but how to save the nation.” July 14, 2002, East Garden, New York.

Taught at a Family Federation for World Peace and Unification workshop:

“The Purpose of God’s Providence of Salvation is to end the journey of God’s sperm.”

Moon had sex ceremonies with the wives of all the first 36 couples.

Sun Myung Moon restored the first three wives

Pikareum explained in Moon’s own words

Ritual Sex in the Unification Church

How “God’s Day” was established in 1968

Where Moon got his theology from

Hyo-won Eu told them the real story of Sun Myung Moon

Hyo-min Eu’s testimony: “Moon’s ‘Gigantic white lie’”