Hak Ja Han Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Personal life and family== Han, whose mother later became a follower of [[Sun Myung Moon]], was born on January 6, 1943 (lunar calendar){{Clarify|date=March 2024|reason=Convert to solar}}.<ref name="lewis">{{cite book | last1 =Lewis | first1 =James R. | author-link =James R. Lewis (scholar) |first2=Jesper Aagaard |last2=Petersen | title =Controversial New Religions | publisher =Oxford University Press US | year =2005 | pages =43β44, 48β49 | isbn =978-0-19-515682-9 }}</ref> Han attended an all-girls high school in Korea but did not go on to college. She speaks Japanese and English as well as Korean.<ref name="moon">{{cite book | last =Moon | first=Sun Myung | title =As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen | publisher =Gimm-Young Publishers | year =2009 | isbn = 978-0-7166-0299-6}}</ref>{{Clarify|reason=Does this mean "She speaks Japanese and English at an equal skill level to her Korean" or does it simply mean "She speaks Japanese, English, and Korean"? If the latter, the grammar should be fixed.|date=March 2023}} In April 1960, at the age of 17, Han, by then a member of the Unification Church,<ref name="Introvigne" /> married 40 year-old Moon.<ref name="cowan">{{cite book | last1 =Cowan | first1 =Douglas E. |first2=David G. |last2=Bromley | title =Cults and New Religions: A Brief History (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion) | publisher =Blackwell Pub. | year =2007 | pages =96, 103 | isbn = 978-1-4051-6127-5}}</ref><ref name="lifeandtimes">{{cite news | last =Staff | title =Life and times | work =[[The Guardian]] | publisher =Guardian Newspapers Ltd | date =April 26, 2008 }}</ref> Han has 14 children, 10 of whom are still living,<ref name="killed"/> and as of 2011 has 38 grandchildren. Her children are:<ref name="moontalks">{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=Sun Myung Moon's Family |url=http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/Moon-Family/MoonFamNames-110000.htm |website=www.Tparents.org}}</ref> *Ye Jin Moon (born 1960; daughter); *Hyo Jin Moon (1962β2008; son); *Hye Jin Moon (1964β1964; daughter); *[[In Jin Moon]] (born 1965; daughter); *[[Heung Jin Moon]] (1966β1984; son); *[[Un Jin Moon]] (born 1967; daughter); *[[Hyun Jin Moon]] (born 1969; son); *[[Kook Jin Moon]] (born 1970; son); *Kwon Jin Moon (born 1970; son); *Sun Jin Moon (born 1976; daughter); *Young Jin Moon (1976β1999; son); *[[Hyung Jin Moon]] (born 1979; son); *Yeon Jin Moon (born 1981; daughter); *Jeung Jin Moon (born 1982; daughter).<ref name="moontalks" /> In [[Culture of Korea|Korean culture]], a married woman [[Korean names|keeps her original family name]], with the children taking their father's.<ref>{{cite book | last =Nahm | first =Andrew C | title =Korea: Tradition and Transformation β A History of the Korean People | publisher =Hollym International | year =1988 | location =Elizabeth, NJ | isbn =0-930878-56-6|pages=33β34}}</ref> On July 19, 2008, Han along with her husband and 14 others, including several of their children and grandchildren, were slightly injured when a [[Sikorsky S-92]] helicopter owned by the movement crashed during an emergency landing and burst into flames in [[Gapyeong]].<ref>[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/20/asia/AS-SKorea-Helicopter-Crash.php iht.com/articles, Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon released from hospital after helicopter crash]</ref><ref>[http://tworiversvip.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=243&task=videodirectlink&id=100 Account of crash by the Moons' youngest son] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013111247/http://tworiversvip.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=243&task=videodirectlink&id=100 |date=October 13, 2008 }}</ref> Han and all 15 others were treated at the nearby UC-affiliated Cheongshim Hospital.<ref>[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/19/asia/AS-SKorea-Helicopter-Crash.php Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, 15 others injured in helicopter crash] Herald Tribune, July 19, 2008</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page