Hyo-min Eu, one of the 36 couples, gives his testimony: exploited by Moon, then shunned by Moon.

Hyo-min Eu contributed to building the economic foundation for the Unification Church but he was then betrayed by Moon.

Updated October 22, 2017



This 1993 testimony is in The Tragedy of the Six Marys book and was translated from the Japanese. Some additions have been included that were in the later Korean edition that Hyo-min Eu himself published a few years after the Japanese edition.

Hyo-won Eu was the second secretary to Sun Myung Moon following Pak Chung-hwa, the first secretary. Hyo-won Eu and his brother Hyo-young Eu (cousins of Hyo-min Eu) contributed to the Unification Church, which was established as the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity as written on the sign hung up outside. [Hyo-won Eu was part of a team that put together the first Divine Principle book that was printed – in 1957.]

Eu Hyo-min suffered imprisonment with Sun Myung Moon during the so-called Ewha Woman’s University Incident. He was a member of the 36 couples, but left the Unification Church in 1972. He lives in Seoul and works as the president of a company. He was 72 years old [in 1993].

“I became a follower of Sun Myung Moon in Pusan on January 4, 1954 – before the Unification Church was formally founded – along with my cousins, Hyo-won Eu and Hyo-young Eu.”

In this May 1954 photo, taken the day HSA-UWC was founded, Hyo-min Eu is second from the right in the back row, next to David SC Kim. Chung-hwa Pak is second from the left in the back row, wearing a suit.

“Chung-hwa Pak was a very important person among the believers. He was Sun Myung Moon’s right-hand man. He worked very hard. However, it is also true that there were movements to drive Pak away. This was because Pak knew too much about Moon’s secrets. “If Pak had divulged all he knew to the law enforcement authorities, Rev. Moon would be charged with some serious crimes. And if Pak opposed Rev. Moon, his plans could not have been executed. At this rate Pak will become an obstacle to Rev. Moon’s mission”. Moon’s infamous behavior would have been exposed – and he would have been ostracized from society.

So Moon considered Chung-hwa Pak to be a dangerous person, and he hinted at Pak’s wrongdoings so the church members would stay away from him. There were voices claiming that Pak was a “Great Satan” for the missionaries of the Principles. For example, it was implied that Pak had embezzled a payment made by the Monopoly Office, etc.

In another section of this book the author relates how some old women followers in Taegu had revelations in their dreams that Pak was a Satan. They spread the stories to others.

But I believe it was just an excuse to ostracize Chung-hwa Pak – that it was Moon’s own scheme. I think Moon tried to keep him away from the other members because Chung-hwa Pak knew so much about Moon’s illicit affairs and his financial issues.

It is was a typical method used by Moon and his Unification Church. The same was also true in my case.

When I first studied the Bible and the Divine Principle with them, Moon and his members did not have enough to eat each day. I suggested making and selling bromide photographs. This was something I had experience of from my work at running a photo studio in North Korea.

This strategy worked well and we sold about 10,000 photographs a day. We sold them for 7 won each and they were sold for 10 won in shops and on the streets by merchants and war orphans. (At the time, they were popular among war orphans who sold cigarettes and lighters, etc.) We made about 70,000 won in cash each day so the food problem was immediately solved.

As Chung-hwa Pak writes, the men divided the work among themselves and the women cut the photos and organized and packed them. This went on for about two years.

The air rifle business went into full production from 1961. They were exported to Japan as well. The factory price of each air rifle was about 10,000 won (about 300,000 won in 1993 when adjusted for inflation) and about 150,000 rifles were sold. The total revenue was about 1.5 billion won. This was a cash cow for the Unification Church.”

Mr Mitsuharu Ishii is in the front row, wearing a suit.

“I invented the new air rifle which could use buckshot. However, I could not be the president of the Tongil Industry company because of the so-called 7.4 incident. (The July 4th 1955 incident concerned Moon in a sex scandal with Ewha Woman’s University students.) At that time I had been imprisoned with Moon and, due to my criminal record, I was not eligible to hold a firearm manufacturing permit.”

“So In-chul Kim became the president, Seung-yong Moon, who was a second cousin of Moon’s, became the factory manager and his brother became the production manager. And I, the inventor, became the assembly manager, a strange position which no one had ever heard of. The gun was patented to Moon, who instructed the second gun patent be transferred directly to himself.”

Moon holding a Yewha gun.

“The company executives were all relatives of Moon. They would all flaunt their wealth, each driving his own car at a time in Korea when most people could not afford to own one. All except for me, I had to walk. I thought that they were more into money-making than a life of faith. It was nepotism which was just about money. Soon this attitude manifested itself in more obvious ways.

They said, “You are good at taking photographs. Why don’t you run a photo studio?” To me it sounded like a mere joke. If I had wanted to run a photo studio, I could have done it on my own. I felt very resentful.

As the air rifle business was on track, and I knew too much about Moon’s relationships with women, they didn’t need me any more – even though I had invented the air rifle that could use buckshot! I, the inventor, was no longer needed. They were hinting that I should quit.

One day in 1971, I thought that I would have a talk with Moon, who had just come back to Korea from the U.S. I contacted Won-pok Choi, whom the church members surrounding her called ‘Mother’. She was the closest of the attendants to Moon. She told me that I could meet Moon without making an appointment – I just needed to come to the church. So I went. As usual many people were gathered around waiting to see Moon. As the midnight curfew approached, one by one people started to go home. I had to wait until eventually only Moon and I were left. When I straightened my back thinking “Finally I can discuss thoroughly about the future,” Moon passed behind me and disappeared into the room next door. I thought he was going to the restroom and waited, but he never came back.

I am a gentle person but this made me furious. My whole body was shaking with anger, and I couldn’t steady myself. I had devoted all kinds of work and service to Moon and the Unification Church. I had received an award for enduring prison with Moon, a model award, a 14-year achievement award and an award for mission work. I spent most of my time at the church, and had served him day and night, following him around like a shadow. I had never opposed his teachings or given him any trouble. Since I knew too much about his relationships with women and his financial matters, he now shunned me and betrayed me. Because of this, I left the Unification Church for good.

My experience was exactly the same as Chung-hwa Pak’s experience so I could understand his resentment very well.

I want to testify about one more thing that will reveal the essence of Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church.

I had my chance during the July 4th incident in 1955 when Sun Myung Moon and other church leaders, including myself, were arrested. Moon was arrested on July 4th and I was arrested on July 6th.

We were charged with evasion of military service. We were refugees from North Korea and we didn’t have any family register documents. When we applied for ID cards, we reported our ages to be 5-6 years older than our actual ages so we could avoid military service. This was against the law. Moon himself had made Chung-hwa Pak falsify his (Moon’s) age. We had all agreed to say that we cooperated in the forgery, but Moon tried to evade his responsibility by saying that he didn’t know anything about it and his disciples committed the act without his knowledge. We worshipped him like God and it would have been unthinkable for us to change his age just as we pleased. In reality, everything was done according to his instructions.

The charge of military service evasion was just a pretext to arrest and interrogate the church leaders under Sun Myung Moon. The real purpose was to find out about the adultery and promiscuous sex in the Unification Church.

The interrogator’s questions became increasingly weird. He asked us about our conjugal relations. He asked when we had sex with our wives. How often did we have sex a week, a month? How many times did we have sex with female church members? In return I snapped at the interrogator for asking about our private lives. “Are these questions related to the evasion of military service?”, and even got into an argument. But the interrogator was persistent. He had a diagram on the table which showed the relationships between Moon and the female church members. He tried to confirm those sexual relationships.

I kept saying that I didn’t know anything about it, but in my mind I was in awe by how accurate he was.”

Seoul-sinmun, July 6, 1955: “Misleading women into fornication through eloquence.” Left to right: Won-pil Kim, Hyo-young Eu, Hyo-min Eu and Sun Myung Moon on trail for adultery, July 29, 1955.



“As we were locked up, we didn’t know what was happening outside. But the women who were interrogated lied about their relationships with Moon, saying that they didn’t have sex with Moon – they only maybe had sex with Moon in their dreams. Chung-hwa Pak and others had probably prepared them with cover-up stories. The police knew quite accurately about Moon’s relationships with the women and that he was guilty, but neither the women themselves nor their husbands filed charges against Moon. Therefore they could not indict him. In the end he was found not guilty and he was released after three months. The main point of the July 4th case was not about military service evasion, but it was to uncover the promiscuous sexual conduct hidden deep in the Unification Church. It wasn’t a “case with unfounded allegations” as the Unification Church claims it was. The Unification Church narrowly escaped the fact of its leader’s promiscuous sexual relationships being exposed to the public.

At the time, Sun Myung Moon’s prison number was 390, Hyo-won Eu’s number was 380, Hyo-young Eu’s number was 1709 and mine was 1175.

Won-pil Kim was also arrested and he was the only one who actually was sentenced to one year in prison. I thought about Moon and the Unification Church with a clear head after I left. I then saw many contradictions and erroneous concepts. The general trend of human history is heading toward democracy, but the Unification Church has a dictatorial system where Moon is surrounded by people who only flatter him. This is going against the flow of civilization and is a regression of history. Moreover, the enormous amount of money the church members have donated through their sacrifice is exclusively managed by Moon and even the church executives do not know how much of it Moon has claimed for himself.

This is prototypical of an undemocratic and despotic system, and goes against the flow of history.

In all the Unification Church publications, they say that Moon was arrested in North Korea by the Department of the Interior/of Home Affairs in 1948 because of the communist party’s policy to eradicate religion. That is a lie.

I ran a photo studio in Seoncheon, Pyeonganbuk-do, which was in the northern region of North Korea. I did not want to live under communism and wanted to escape the war, so I left North Korea in August 1947 at the age of 28. I left all my equipment and the photo studio behind. Up until that time I was a deacon at the Seoncheonbuk Church. In those days there was no oppression of Christianity [in North Korea].

That Moon was being persecuted in North Korea because of religion is a false history of the Unification Church. The truth is just as Chung-hwa Pak has described it.

As mentioned previously in this book, I was one of the 36 couples. I want to say the Unification Church is just a one person dictatorship that parades as having principles. In reality it has no providence.

At least at that time, matching wives and husbands was taken seriously and the ultimate decision was made through consultation with Wun-hak Baek (a physiognomist) and Myung-hak Lee (a fortune teller).

However, in recent years the mass wedding ceremonies are just like mixing up the pegs of a Mahjong game. Human rights are disregarded. It is cheap and neglectful. One cannot say to opponents that ideal blessing partners are being chosen by the True Parents. I admit, with pain in my heart, that this cannot be called a true blessing.

There may be a few happy couples here and there, but a lot of couples are just dreaming and they soon get divorced. In this case, how can those blessed by the Second Coming Christ truly be eternal couples in heaven? And who else should take responsibility?”

The Japanese text for Hyo-min Eu’s testimony

六マリアの悲劇 第七章

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Hyo-min Eu was one of the ‘restored’ 36 couples.

Here he describes pikareum: “Moon’s Gigantic White Lie”

Hyo-min Eu pikareum article in Japanese

Hyo-min Eu wrote this song “Now I have to come to know, I’ve truly come to know, Father, how your heart is filled with tears…”

The Tragedy of the Six Marys website

Moon sex scandal at Ewha in the headlines

Moon talks about the Ewha scandal

Shin-hee Eu’s ‘pikareum with Moon’ testimony.

Hyo-min Eu and his sister, Shin-hee Eu, on Japanese TV

Deok-Jin Kim – Someone who actually practised Moon’s sex relay

Table of Contents of

‘The Tragedy of the Six Marys – the real Satan is Sun Myung Moon!!’

The Tragedy of the Six Marys – Korean Edition

The theology behind pikareum