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Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, founders of the Unification Church. The Unification Church ( Korean : 통일교) is a new religious movement derived from Christianity, whose members are called Unificationists or sometimes informally Moonies. Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) began gaining followers after the Second World War.
Yi Chaemyŏng. Lee Jae-myung ( Korean: 이재명; born 8 December 1963) is a South Korean politician serving as a member of the National Assembly and the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea. Lee was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2022 South Korean presidential election. He was the 35th Governor of Gyeonggi Province from 2018 to ...
Yi Sun-sin ( Korean : 이순신; Korean pronunciation: [i.sʰun.ɕin]; April 28, 1545 – December 16, 1598 [1]) was a Korean admiral and military general famed for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Imjin war in the Joseon period. The exact number of naval engagements conducted by Admiral Yi against the Japanese is a subject of ...
Lee Myung-Sun (Korean: 이명선; born 12 February 1976) is a retired South Korean shot putter. Her personal best throw is 19.36 metres, achieved in April 2000 in Shanghai . This is the current South Korean record .
Lee Ju-myoung (Korean: 이주명; born December 1, 1993) is a South Korean actress and model. She debuted in the television and film industry with My Fellow Citizens! (2019) and is best known for her roles in Kairos (2020), Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022) and Like Flowers in Sand (2023–2024).
The latter donated 600 tons of flour to North Korean children of North Pyongan Province, the birthplace of Sun Myung Moon. After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, he donated $1.7 million to the Japanese Red Cross. After Sun Myung Moon died in 2012, Hyung Jin Moon and his mother began expressing open differences.
Lee Myung-bak was born 19 December 1941, in Osaka, Japan. His parents emigrated to Japan in 1929, nineteen years after the Japanese annexation of Korea. Lee's father, Lee Chung-u (이충우; 李忠雨), was employed as a farm labourer in rural Japan, and his mother, Chae Tae-won (채태원; 蔡太元), was a housewife. He was the fifth of seven ...
McCune–Reischauer. Mun Yongmyŏng. Sun Myung Moon ( Korean : 문선명; Hanja : 文鮮明; born Moon Yong-Myeong; 6 January 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader, also known for his business ventures and support for conservative political causes. [1] [2] A messiah claimant, he was the founder of the Unification Church ...