FFWPU Seoul Church to be sold – unconfirmed report

There are reports from several sources that FFWPU / UC / HSA-UWC owned land and other properties in the Seoul area have already been sold, and now the church in Yongsan, Seoul, known as 天福宮 Cheonbokgung, is to be sold. It was opened in about 2010, just eight years ago. The congregation has been told to hold services in their local areas.

The members in Japan have not been informed of the sale. They raised $75 million for it.

Hyung Jin Moon: “We’ll be moving to the temple [天福宮 Cheonbokgung] very soon, but we have to be clear, let’s be honest – the Korean church raised over $25 million for that temple! That’s nowhere near Japan, which raised $75 million for that temple.” Seoul, January 16, 2010

The Il-hwa factory in Guri has already been demolished. Link to photos below.

Billboard on the church

Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Islam statues behind the Moons.

This part of the church symbolizes a womb – note the water.

Thrones for the Moons with a gold statue of them.

Members from 194 countries donated money to build the FFWPU Seoul church. This is just one section of the list of contributors. Many members gave money even though they would never be able to visit the far-away church.

Now some of the members who sacrificed to give money are wondering what will happen to the proceeds from the sale. Will it be returned to them, or used by Hak Ja Han?

January 16, 2010 - Headquarters Church, Seoul Korea

Hyung Jin Moon – then International President of the Unification Church and Universal Peace Federation – pushing a message 50 years way too late; prodding Korean members to finally cough up some of the cash to fund the organization’s activities. In this case, funding the Cheon Bok Gung which would open about a month later.

Hyung Jin: “I went from a position of just encouraging people, to now being in the position where I had to tell them the bitter reality. I had to tell them things they didn’t want to hear. I had to tell them things like, “Hey, guys! We cannot continue to burden the Japanese church like this! It’s not responsible; it’s not ethical.” I had to challenge the Korean congregations! I had to tell them, “We’re not going to do this any more. We’re going to become self-sufficient. We’re going to step out on our own two feet. We’re going to stop the dependency mentality. We’re going to stop relying on Japanese brothers and sisters to suffer for us. We’re going to liberate them.” …

You know, we have to participate in creating self-sufficiency for the church, we have to practice in what normal people do, in Christianity and Buddhism and Islam, normal things. We have to be at least at their level! We have to be at least contributing, tithing to the community so that we can support the church. We have to be at least participating in the world providence, at least once in our life. We have to also be able to testify about True Parents – these were new things! Things people hadn’t done in thirty years!

So these were new challenges, and many members were upset: “Why are you making us do these things? Why are you making us? We were comfortable!” Even though our church was going down, we were comfortable being subsidized. We [Church in Korea] were comfortable taking $10 million at least every year from the Japanese church. “Why shouldn’t they suffer for us?!” They were furious! And we had to deal with these very difficult issues. I actually never shared this with you guys for the year-and-a-half that we actually had to work through this. …

Members now, across the nation, have participated in being responsible for their own churches, tithing to the community. In the Korean church alone – we’ll be moving to the temple very soon, but we have to be clear, let’s be honest – the Korean church raised over $25 million for that Temple! That’s nowhere near Japan, which raised $75 million for that temple.”



http://www.tparents.org/moon-talks/HyungJinMoon-10/HyungJinMoon-100116.htm



Top Japanese Court orders Unification Church “to pay 37.6 million yen in damages to two Fukuoka women who were coerced to donate their assets.”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/1997/09/18/news/top-court-strikes-unification-appeal/



Demolition of the Il-hwa factory at Guri (formerly Sutaek-ri) Korea

Hak Ja Han’s new plans for Cheongpyeong

Unconfirmed reports of numerous US properties being sold: Jacob House, Tiffany Building on 5th Avenue, etc.



HSA-UWC sold 5-plus acres off Taxter Road near Belvedere for $410,000 in March 2016



Chicago mansion owned by UC/FFWPU from 1975 was sold by them in May 2016



Boston FFWPU church to be sold?

Jonathan Park’ report – part 1. Complaint Concerning Church Funds

The Moons have gutted company profits by taking exorbitant salaries

See property list at:

http://www.unification.net/damian/HSAPROPS_2005.pdf

New Hope Farms International Equestrian Park

Rev Kim purchases a nice house in Seattle – paid for by the local members, and Rev Lee purchased one which he later sold for $450,000.