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Establishing print and video media
On October 3, 1989, True Parents brought professors from the PWPA together and appointed them as writers of a multi-campus newspaper, The World University Times, published for professors and students.
Previously, on April 21, 1980, True Parents founded the Spanish-language daily Noticias del Mundo for the Spanish-speaking people of New York City. They also launched The Middle East Times in Cairo on March 3, 1983, and Tiempos del Mundo in Buenos Aires on November 23, 1996.
Showing considerable interest in video and broadcast media, True Parents launched Atlantic Video on September 7, 1990, with production facilities in Washington, DC. They also directed that United Press International (UPI) be purchased, and it was acquired on May 15, 2000.
1. The World University Times, grounded in Unification Thought, is aimed mainly at professors and university students. It publishes weekly now, but when it becomes a daily newspaper, its national educational material will influence the greater society.
This is why from now on, people who read The Segye Times should also read this newspaper. You need to know my teachings. To become more than a Unification Church believer who is just guided by my teachings, you should experience the battlefield with me. (191-177, 1989/06/24)
2. The World University Times should be influential and help each political party develop constructively and progressively with a vision for the future. Even if I do not create a party and enter the ring with them, I must establish guidelines and targets so that political parties can take the right path.
I am the only one doing this kind of work. That is why I created this multi-campus newspaper. It is made not by students but by professors. Therefore, the major media cannot take The World University Times lightly.
The power of words is unlimited. This paper is not primarily for students; rather, it is a scholarly newspaper in which professors can express criticism academically. (204-337, 1990/07/11)
3. I plan to bring together people from the media, academia, the Summit Council for World Peace, the Federation for World Peace, and the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace and direct them to focus on society's moral education. Until now, the media have been bringing the world to ruin.
Why do you think I came to support professors? I founded The World University Times in Korea and the world-level The World & I magazine to do this work. (205-307, 1990/10/01)
4. The Latino and African-American populations in America are placing their hope in me. African Americans pay attention to Washington, DC, and the Latino community in New York City, so The Washington Times and Noticias del Mundo can connect with them appropriately.
Furthermore, The News World in New York City is carrying out a movement to bring together not only whites but people of all races. The Jewish community has opposed us, but we are carrying out this movement to embrace them as well.
We have reached the stage where, if Latin American countries need to address the United States, they can go through us, and if the Latino or African-American communities want to advance their causes in the United States, they know I can offer unparalleled support.
At the same time, CARP has organized scientists and world-class intellectuals on campuses to address the world. Overall, we must take such steps to bring these diverse communities together in heart. (128-044, 1983/06/01)
5. The purpose of founding Tiempos del Mundo is to educate young people and prevent family breakdown. We are developing such strategies as we go along. Even scoundrels such as Mafioso, spies, gangsters, and corrupt politicians need this education.
I have been thinking for a long time about how to resolve a host of human problems. Because we made the expansion of this domain our chief aim, I made sure that the goal of educating young people and families was a top priority.
It is only through us that young people can receive the proper type of education and families can be saved from breaking down. This is why I am leading this work. I have founded newspapers to realize a just society. (281-177, 1997/01/02)
6. I am the only one who can bring Protestantism and Catholicism together. I am doing this through our academic and news media organizations. Currently, in the era of the North American Free Trade Agreement, North America is uniting based on Protestantism and Latin America is uniting based on Catholicism.
But Protestantism and Catholicism conflict with each other. This is why I am carrying out the movement to unite them. To make this connection, we need a newspaper.
To deal with global ideological trends, I am elevating the level of Latin America's newspapers. Tiempos del Mundo is accomplishing this, even though initially, everyone opposed it. It is in first place when it comes to coverage, content, and quality of editing. (291-065, 1998/03/05)
7. The majority of Latin America's countries are Catholic, and when I said I would go there, everyone opposed me. Despite this, I founded a newspaper there centering on The Washington Times.
I did this in nine months, something America's conglomerates spent ten years trying to do but failed. Argentina, more than Brazil, is in direct connection with the Vatican. Brazil is within Portugal's sphere of influence, and Argentina is within Spain's.
We built the Tiempos del Mundo newspaper to shed light on the affairs of Argentina, a Catholic nation that operates under the Vatican's sphere of influence.
We know about the projects these nations are carrying out. We know how all the Latin American nations are evolving. I have the keys to the deepest insights. (296-249, 1998/11/10)
8. We have educational content and a system for producing and broadcasting it from our facilities in Washington, DC. I brought the best technology and equipment from Japan and created facilities in Washington unrivaled anywhere in the world. We have the best facility for editing documentaries and movies.
I have set the standard and established the world's best facilities. If you are the best in New York or Washington, you are the best in the world. I named this place Washington Television Center-Atlantic Video. It is famous and is known simply as “Atlantic Video.” (139-329, 1986/01/31)
9. The Washington Television Center, located in Washington, DC, is a hub for global electronic media, a video news agency, and more. Up to this point, it has only dealt with text, but now we are sending not just articles to the world – as the AP and UPI news agencies do – but also photos and videos via satellite.
To use our service, recipients download, edit, and then upload our material. We have entered the age of audiovisual education. We have prepared everything, including the facilities, which we inaugurated a few days ago.
From now on, we will develop human resources through our associations of professors. We need to generate funding for the World Media Conferences and the Summit Council for World Peace, which gather the world's top intellectuals, scientists, journalists, and current and former national presidents.
All nations will have their representatives learn from our programs. We can facilitate interaction by editing content down to the minimum time and distilling the essential points. This allows users to insert our clips into their broadcast programs with the touch of a button.
If the subject has to do with Korea, for example, we will produce a product suitable for airing on Korea's broadcasting systems and will also format it for consumption as global news. (212-215, 1991/01/06)
10. Up to this point, media communications have been on the level of text, but shortly, the age of video and television media will come. I was among the first to grasp this.
We will set the moral compass and present it persuasively to all the people of the world. We must restore purity among the young boys and girls who are deteriorating due to all sorts of disturbing and decadent magazines displaying free sex and rock music's ugly side.
To do so, we will create an excellent weekly television series and distribute it throughout the world. Furthermore, every week we will create and distribute videos containing complete content and commentary on current events that people will surely watch.
We must create a catchy theme song for those videos with the message, “Turn around, world!” to change, as fast as possible, the direction of the present world, which is descending into hell. This is what we will broadcast.
I have completed all preparations in America to disseminate such content around the clock. (214-090, 1991/02/01)
11. In America, we have a video reproduction facility called New Future Films, where the output is 5,000 units a day. They duplicate movies from all over the world and catalog them into categories such as education, sports, and musicals. They can be arranged just as in a library.
Our next step is to produce video lectures by famous scholars. We will make 3-hour, 10-hour, 30-hour, and 50-hour video series. A 50-hour series is long enough to cover an entire subject area. Lectures from these famous educators, put onto videotape, can last for thousands of years.
We must ensure that people can access the educational material that we are sending out each day. If people come to watch these wholesome videos for a year, their inclinations will improve.
This will affect popular culture and fashion eventually and is essential to the task of halting the social decline that is rampant the world over.
(207-126, 1990/11/01)
Recording providential history
True Parents have left a legacy of words and deeds from their lifetime of effort. To preserve, record, and compile these for the sake of future generations, True Parents established Seonghwa Publications, the Unification Church History Compilation Committee, and the Pyongil Co. Ltd., which produces Peace TV.
They also established magazines such as Seonghwa and Tongil Segye. Seonghwa Publications, which was established on February 11, 1961, has published many books, including the multi-volume set, The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and Exposition of the Divine Principle.
The Unification Church History Compilation Committee, which commenced on November 1, 1981, is responsible for compiling True Parents' history and collecting and archiving historical materials. The Pyongil Co. Ltd., established on October 1, 2004, produces photo and video materials.
12. People attending and living closely with me should consider seriously the issue of how they will manage the materials I am leaving behind for the sake of creating a new world culture.
Leaders have not been aware of the importance of maintaining a historical tradition. They do not know how valuable my legacy will be to descendants and future generations. The same applies to the editing of my sermons. If there is a fire, all these materials will be gone.
The Unification Church History Compilation Committee must be aware of this. Our movement's events should be categorized by degree of importance, and then be preserved as historical and traditional materials.
This is not an inheritance relevant only to the Unification Church. You must arrange Unification Church information according to how it has influenced the nation, continent, and world so that when people want to know about the Unification Church, they can easily reference the information here.
They will look for the historical tradition in this massive store of literature. There, however, they will find not just their nation or organization; the collection will include global organizations and all nations.
They will be able to access materials not only about their religious organization but also a comprehensive integration of materials about numerous religious organizations.
When young people see this, they will understand how it all comes together and will not be able to contain their excitement and interest. This is why we need these materials. (230-208, 1992/05/06)
13. Unification Church members do not know much about these historical materials.
They have been so busy trying to connect to the present reality and keep up with their present environment that they did not think about history. This is why I am providing you with the entire collection of my sermons.
You must be aware of the history of our church when it was located in Jangchung-dong and the events surrounding the expulsion of professors and students from Ehwa University. You must understand the state and situation Korea was in at that time of transition.
I wove the providence within the religious background not to oppose people but to create harmony. Those relationships arose in the age of the individual, but I had to introduce ideological concepts that connected to the age of the family. Hence, the need for the collection of my sermons.
Past and present both are necessary. However, many people do not know the past very well. Some groups wanted to restore Eden in each of the Old, New, and Completed Testament ages.
Unless you can put this into perspective academically, it is difficult to find the proper historical relationships between them. This is because you do not know the entire providence.
You must go through the past, present, and future to understand this. This must be done by the Unification Church History Compilation Committee.
(441-324, 2004/03/06)
14. Just as every person has a history from elementary school to middle school, high school, and university, so do I. My work during my early years of adulthood is important, but no one knows about it in detail.
There are numerous records from people who went fishing with me, for example, but there is no experienced person who can connect them.
The Unification Church History Compilation Committee should interview these people and make the connections – even if past interviews must be done anew. These people must write about their experiences in detail.
History is usually defined according to one era, but the work people carried out differed depending on the directions given to them. If we tie these things across the eras, we can see how the flow of history has shaped our culture.
If we do not organize it this way, it will look perplexing. To accomplish this, even if you have to re-create all the material, you must link reports, explain them to connect them to outcomes, and leave behind a record that can be examined in the future.
We can only build a museum if we have records, and it is through having this museum that we can bring in supplementary materials and reconstruct the deeper level of history that has not been uncovered yet.
You must find links connecting the past and the present. Therefore, you must take the pieces of evidence from several stages and connect them. You cannot jump for 10 or 20 years. This is why we need resources.
This is why I tell you to keep a journal. You should make a record of every place you go, and whether you went on a boat or in a car and so forth.
Records of the main figures and central members must be compiled, and these records should constitute the core materials for a museum.
(441-328, 2004/03/06)
15. Korea's Unification Church History Compilation Committee has the foundation to produce books on various subjects. It has a digital system, so committee members can search through a vast amount of material at once.
If they enter “Pyongyang” in the search function, then they can discover where “Pyongyang” appears throughout my entire collection of sermons. They have a searchable system.
Therefore, creating and editing new books and booklets is easy. Committee members can extract information in seconds. They can use this method to compile books. (294-205, 1998/06/14)
16. Seonghwa Publications must organize all of my lectures into a series as quickly as possible. This goes also for my sermons and the compilation of historical records.
Testimonies from our 1957 witnessing activities, for example, must be recorded and compiled into a booklet. We should publish topical booklets. By this method, we can organize all our information.
You can present the material in a general fashion on a primary level, go back into the material on secondary and tertiary levels, and even display the results of your research in the museum. (114-329, 1981/10/20)
17. We should write thoroughly about the history of the Unification Church, the church's present status, and its vision for the future. To do so, you must organize all the words I have spoken until now.
No matter how encyclopedic your knowledge, you do not know my heart. Therefore, you should ask me for explanations while I am still alive and get answers. You should think like this for the sake of your descendants. The collection of my speeches is a treasure for all generations.
It is a treasure that must be passed down as an asset. People who do not inherit the tradition will be swept away. No matter how chaotic the world is, I am not the kind of person who will be swept away. You must arrange it all, centering on our present cultural era. (181-276, 1988/10/03)
18. There are electromagnetic waves in the heavenly nation too. In heaven there are “spiritual waves” cheon-pa and on earth there are “physical waves” SEPA. In addition, there are “human waves,” in-pa, which are based on the circumstances of human existence.
To aid our connections via electromagnetic waves through the Internet, we have Pyongil Co. Ltd., which creates products that transmit electromagnetic waves. Since we started that, we have made headlines at the center of heavenly news and earthly news; it is news that satisfies both the mind and body.
We have made it so that these things are right at the center of daily life. As we do this, we must advance by concentrating our efforts on all spheres of activity, such as art and technology. (484-110, 2005/01/21)
19. You cannot make a sound by yourself. There must be a reciprocal relationship. A wave cannot arise by itself. It arises through a reciprocal relationship. As for electromagnetic waves, there are spiritual waves and physical waves, produced by reciprocal movements of entities on the earth.
In the world of the heart, “heart waves” are emitted. These are “waves” of moral concepts centered on the edification of human character.
As for the body, there are carnal waves of corrupt thought systems that insist upon thinking that I am number one, that exalts selfish individualism.
To what extent can we change the carnal waves that manifest in the evil world? These carnal waves do not cause transformation in the world. Rather, they follow transformations that take place in the world.
Similarly, heart waves follow transformations that take place in the spirit world. Because of this, there must be a world of the mind and a world of the body that leads the heavenly waves and the worldly waves respectively.
Accordingly, waves that perfect the heart waves should become the mainstream of the Internet. They should unite the world of the mind and the world of the body completely to create harmonious and peaceful unity.
The role of the Pyongil Company is to make this happen. Its challenge is to create various video and multimedia images that reflect the actual image of the world. It has to bring these images to people's sensory systems to impact their consciousness and way of thinking. (484-118, 2005/01/20)
20. The computer is a wonderful treasure store. It is as if there is a library inside it. It is made so that you can download and write anything while working on it. If and when the Unification Church is accused of creating social problems, we will expose the background of the accusation, and then present accurate and complete information based on the reality of the Unification Church, beginning with its roots in the Principle, and broadcast these details.
We are entering a competitive era. When this happens, we can turn the world upside down instantly. We are preparing for this now. This is why we have established the best facilities. We will have facilities that no other sources possess.
Based on our truthful information, we can create high-quality documentaries and edit them into movies.
In the future, we will build a great center for this, and newspapers will compete through the Internet to use our materials. To accomplish this, Japan, America, and Korea are sending their materials to Pyongil Co.
If the world's newspapers adopt this strategy, we will achieve global transparency. Journalists, politicians, and other cultural creators, as well as the military and law enforcement, once looked upon Unification teachings as something dangerous.
But now doors will open, the truth will be known, and the entire world will be able to move forward in one direction. We must establish this path. (499-271, 2005/07/03)
21. No newspaper on earth has trouble finding material to cover. There is extensive material coming from our media organizations all over the world, such as The Washington Times and UPI. Reporting and writing daily is only a small part of the whole. This is why Pyongil Co. should take all that information and report more than what AP and UPI report.
When you hear that something happened on a particular continent, call and ask our continental office, “What do you think about that?” Then gather the material and write the article, discussing and evaluating the event.
You will not need an on-site reporter. We have other global resources as well, UN NGOs in every nation, from which we can obtain detailed reports through other people's on-site surveys and interviews. With that information, we can invest our great skills to write articles and produce broadcasts.
If we do this through the Internet, we will become the cutting-edge resource for the world's newspapers.
On this foundation, we will introduce Divine Principle lectures and, based on the Principle standard, expose the wrongdoings of the world. Until now, Christianity and the world as a whole have tried to suppress or delete everything embarrassing to them, fearing what people might discover. The era when that was possible has passed. (499-271, 2005/07/03)
Sun Myung Moon