Sun Myung Moon and was put on a respirator at the intensive care unit of St. Mary’s Hospital. On 31 August 2012, Moon was transferred to a church-owned hospital near his home in Gapyeong, northeast of Seoul, after suffering multiple organ failure. Moon died on the morning of 3 September 2012 (1:54 am KST) at the age of 92. In 1964 Moon founded the Korean Culture and Freedom Foundation, which promoted the interests of South Korea and sponsored Radio Free Asia. Former U.S. Presidents Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon were honorary presidents or directors at various times. In 1972
Nansook Hong Nansook Hong Nansook Hong (born 1966), is the author of the autobiography, "In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family", published in 1998 by Little, Brown and Company. It gave her account of her life up to that time, including her marriage to Hyo Jin Moon, the first son of Unification Church founder and leader Sun Myung Moon and his wife Hakja Han Moon. "In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family" is a 1998, non-fiction work by Hong and "Boston Globe" reporter Eileen McNamara, published