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Feb. 15, 2025 Episode 1479 ‘Who is Huh Kyung-young, the Divine Man?’

It’s the easiest title.

Who is Huh Kyung-young, the Divine Man?

This is the hardest part. If someone asks, “Who is Huh Kyung-young?” it is difficult for you to answer. I was born during the Korean War. January 1, 1950, which is November 13, 1949 in the lunar calendar.

Born Jan. 1, 1950 (Lunar Nov. 13, 1949) July 13, 1947

So, in the solar calendar, I was born on January 1, 1950. That is my birth date. When in the lunar calendar? November 13, 1949. You raised your age when you ran for president. How many years? Three years. So, you raised it back to July 13, 1947. This is my registered age, and this is my actual age. This is my solar age.

So, in what year did Master Kang Jeung-san pass away? He passed away in 1909. So, I was born exactly 40 years later. Since he passed away in June 1909 and I arrived in January, I came two years early, didn’t I? I arrived within exactly 40 years. As for being born, I was in Junggok-dong.

Junggok-dong (shack under the Jungnang Bridge stream)

The Daesun Jinrihoe headquarters is here. This used to be Jungnang-gyo. The Jungnang-gyo stream. It’s under the bridge there. I was born in a hut, wasn’t I? This is exactly where I was born. So, back then, that area was simply called Junggok-dong. That is where Daesun Jinrihoe established its headquarters later on. Isn’t that a bit fascinating? By the way, my name has the character Gyeong, doesn’t it? My name has 11 strokes, correct? The character Heo has 11 strokes. That is the character that was prophesied.

Huh 許 11 Gyeong 京 8 Yeong 寧

You said that the character Gyeong definitely has to be born in Seoul. That character is born in Seoul. Next, what is combined with the character Yeong? You said that spirituality, the human soul, and the physical blood—spirit and blood—are combined. That is placed on the altar. It means that one is at peace only when the spirit and body are at peace.

So, we use it when we say “longevity, happiness, health, and peace,” right? We use the character “yeong” in that. So, we got permission. I was born in Seoul, and Seoul is located in the center of Donggyeong, Seogyeong, Namgyeong, and Beijing. That is why we call our Seoul Hanseong, but we also call it Gyeongseong. However, we shouldn’t attach Donggyeong, Seogyeong, Namgyeong, and Beijing together. Because we are becoming the capital of the whole world, going forward… If Donggyeong is here, Seogyeong is here. There is China’s Namgyeong here. And there is Beijing here.

Northwest, southeast of
Seoul

This is Seoul. That is why they say he was born in Seoul. If you look at the Daesunjinri regarding names, Mr. Kang Jeung-san says that the character ‘Gyeong’ must be in the name. Also, this character ‘Yeong’ must be in harmony between the spirit and the body. Furthermore, what is the total number of strokes? It must be 33. The given name must have 11 strokes, and the surname.

But it’s not enough for the surname to simply have 11 strokes. Is it enough for the given name to have 11 strokes? What does it have to be? These 11 strokes… 1,300 years ago, Great Master Wonhyo said that when the future god comes as a human, the surname of Maitreya will be 1.1 billion. It was mentioned. Play that video. That video about the 11 strokes. Great Master Wonhyo, let’s look at the 11 strokes first. 11 strokes is the number of golden blessings, which brings the greatest wealth and glory through the blessings of the harmony of heaven and earth. This is a book used by fortune tellers. It is a book that looks at numbers when naming. Just like the creation of heaven and earth, all things between heaven and earth take on new forms and greatly enjoy the golden blessings bestowed by heaven; this is what can be called blessings given by heaven. If you plan anything, you can obtain what you desire, and since resplendent clouds of good omens always float long in the sky, rain of good fortune falls whenever needed, causing all things to continue developing in the natural order.

When I first ran for president, did I have any money? Yet, if I said 50 billion won was needed, 50 billion won would just be created. Isn’t that fascinating? If I said someone would bring it, they would bring it. So, the people I work with say they are running for president even though they have nothing. The security deposit is 500 million won. That was the price of a single building in downtown Seoul. You would have had to sell a whole building to get 500 million won 30 years ago. But tuition alone, which is 300 million won now, was 500 million won back then. The value of currency has increased tens of times compared to 30 years ago, hasn’t it? It was 500 million won back then. So, to raise 500 million won, you would need to load cash equivalent to about five cars. Then, I would just say, “I am running for president, let the money be created,” and throw it away. And it would all be generated.

Something really turns out exactly as you set your mind to it. There is something in the numerical value of the name, isn’t there? If you really set your mind to it, it just becomes a plan. It continues to develop. This signifies great fortune resulting from the harmony of heaven and earth. However, not only are you always moderate and steady, but even if bad things happen at one time—like suffering because you were born without parents.—even if bad things appear, they quickly return to normal. So, for me, whether bad things come or not is no big deal. It returns to normal right away. That actually becomes a case of “Saeng-ong-ji-ma” (a blessing in disguise). Now, let’s look at this 11 strokes, specifically the 10 strokes. Scroll down. If your surname is just one stroke worse than mine, try growing this out a bit. You don’t need to see this part. The 10 strokes represent emptiness, downfall, and a lonely number wandering in a world of darkness. Is it good if your surname has 10 strokes? You shouldn’t use this 10 strokes when naming. For you, 10 is the post-heavenly number; the pre-heavenly 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and the post-heavenly 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. This is the final number of the post-heavenly era. Now, take a look.

Although one appears to do one’s best in everything, no matter how hard one tries, things do not go as intended. Throughout one’s life, one experiences all kinds of hardships and suffering, and the future looks bleak. Every endeavor is a wasted effort with no merit, and this becomes even more severe in old age; it is a painful and immensely sorrowful number. Everything turns into a state of darkness, creating a situation where one wanders in the void without seeing an end. In particular, neglecting self-management or lacking diligence and sincerity leads to even worse misfortunes. Even if one devotes oneself to any endeavor aiming for success, far from achieving it, only disaster and misfortune strike, leaving behind only failure and downfall. For women in particular, this number signifies a destiny of unceasing anguish in love and living a life of misery and suffering. That difference of just one number is enormous. You say, “This is 10 strokes. You don’t use this when naming?” So, do you think you can just name things haphazardly? That difference of one stroke is terrifying.

But now, let’s look at what Great Master Wonhyo said. We need to get this over with quickly today. Now, Great Master Wonhyo, this is the Gyeokam Yurok. Not the Gyeokam Yurok, but the Wonhyo Gyeolseo. The Sky Palace is mentioned in the Gyeokam Yurok. It’s all there. The Wonhyo Gyeolseo. Right there, at the beginning. It appears here, doesn’t it? The Pre-Heaven is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The Post-Heaven is 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. This number 10 is very dirty. Did you see it? You shouldn’t use it in a name. Everyone, they say 10 is the number of completion. However, for names, it is an incredibly, incredibly bad number. It is the number of completion. But 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 are the last numbers. The number 10 doesn’t exist in the first place. You circled the 1, didn’t you? That kind of number doesn’t exist in the first place.

9 is the last one, but the fact that 10 has been included like this makes it different from numbers like this. A circle is attached to 1. That number 10 is such a bad number. It is the end of the Post-Heaven era. But isn’t it the number of the end of the Pre-Heaven and Post-Heaven eras? It is 10. And one more has been attached to it, hasn’t it? If one more is attached, it becomes the coexistence of the Pre-Heaven and Post-Heaven eras, doesn’t it? This is the essence. The essence of the Dao is the Spirit. Then it comes out like this, doesn’t it? Why else would they have dedicated an entire page of the book to explaining this? Look below. 11 Heavenly Realms. The number 11 is the will of Heaven, according to the will of the Heavenly God of the Heavenly Realms. According to the will of the Spirit, the number 11 contains the immense providence of the universe.

Since the number 11 is the essence of the Dao, it represents the Heavenly God; you can use the character for “God” (신) here, which means spirit or ghost. This is what a “True Person” (眞人), a Heavenly Divine Being, brings with him when borrowing a physical body to come to Earth. Since I say I brought a physical body, this is no joke. It is already firmly established in my surname. This is a book published 1,300 years ago. It is a translation. Now, since the number 11 is the essence of the Dao, when a Heavenly God borrows a physical body to come to Earth, the total number of strokes in the earthly surname he brings is chosen to match the numerical value of 11, consisting of 11 strokes. I will discuss this later in due time, but first, what exactly is a “True Person” to humanity? It appears like this now, doesn’t it? And this is the Wonhyo Gyeolseo. Great Master Wonhyo, 1,300 years ago, stated that a being with a surname of 11 strokes would come to the Korean Peninsula. That being is a god. Is that correct or not?

A divine being appears in the Daesunjinri Dojeon as well, doesn’t he? That person will surely claim to be a divine being. “I am the first person in the world to call himself a divine being.” But does it explain why this surname, 11, is associated with a divine being? What exactly appeared? Move the screen aside. What appears is that this surname, right here, is this. In the Gyeokam Yurok. You understand what that means. It is Gongjeon. It says it is Myeolbyeong.

Empty money, annihilation of troops = Huh (Gimhae)

So, what does this mean? It means the Heo clan. One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, eleven—then this must be Gimhae Heo. Why Gimhae Heo? Because when you get rid of the Kim clan. If you get rid of the Kim clan and a surname emerges from it, it is Gimhae Kim and Gimhae Heo. It is the Kim clan, but they say the pronunciation isn’t Kim. The reason for this is that it is similar to this: Mubujija. It means this person is a Mubujija.

A son without a father, a divine being emerges;
what nature is unknown, a divine being emerges.

Since it is Mubujija, it is a son without a father. Mubujija Sin In-chul. But is being Mubujija the only option? It is Haseongbuji. There is no surname. The surname is unknown. Haseongbuji. Yes, it is Haseongbuji Sin In-chul. Then, that person named Sin-in (Divine Man) does come with 11 strokes, and the surname does indeed have 11 strokes. It is 11 strokes.

It is 11 strokes, but you have to do the character ‘Mubuji’ again. You must not grow up under your father. You must not grow up under your mother either. Hmm, even if you were born under your mother, it is still not allowed for her to raise you. It is strange. So it is ‘Moyukbuji.’ Raising by the mother is absolutely forbidden. Furthermore, ‘Haseongbuji’ (not knowing the surname) means you cannot know. You wrote the character ‘Ji’ incorrectly. It is not the character for wisdom. You should have written the character for knowing. Well, I wrote it quickly. You do not know the surname. But where should this person come from? It is ‘Sainbulin Sainbulin Sininchul.’

A son without a father, a divine being emerges;
whose nature is unknown, a divine being emerges;
resembling a human, but not a human, a divine being emerges.

This divine being is coming, but what is it? He is a human, yet he is not a human. So, a divine being

Because I am both human and not human, the characters for ‘god’ and ‘human’ are attached. There are other people who claim to be gods. There are such fake religions. Then what are we? Ghosts are gods, and shamans are gods, so that has nothing to do with us. However, I am the first to combine a god and a human. If I were to tell you, “I am a god,” could I appear directly? I appear because I am a ‘Divine Human.’ Therefore, anyone who claims to be a god is mistaken. I am the first person to call myself a ‘Divine Human.’ So, it means that a person who is human but not human—that Divine Human—is coming. Next, this place was mentioned earlier. It appears here in the Gyeokam Yurok, doesn’t it?

Here, here, in this place like a bucket—what kind of place is this? It is Seongsan Seongji, Umyeongji. It is the place where a cow has come and is mooing. What I am talking about right now is mooing. I am telling you, this is Umyeongji. Does this Seongsan Seongji, Umyeongji, not appear in the Gung-eul-ga section of the Gyeogam Yurok? It appears in Chapter 44 of the Gyeogam Yurok, doesn’t it? So, the Divine Man is a person who is without a single mistake. But where does this person come from? The Korean Peninsula. It is an island, yet it is an island. Because it is an island. Sadobudo is an island, yet it is not an island, is it? It is an island, yet it is not an island. Sadobudo is an island, and what? From Sadobudo, the Divine Man emerges again.

A son without a father, a divine being appears;
whose nature is unknown, a divine being appears;
resembling a human, but not a human, a divine being appears;
resembling an island, but not an island, a divine being appears.

So, regarding the new in-chul, this is the Korean Peninsula.

So, the Korean Peninsula is the only place in the world that resembles Sadobudo. However, Italy looks similar to Sadobudo, but it lacks the Yalu and Tumen Rivers to the north. It is simply connected to Europe. Similarly, Florida is similar to Sadobudo, but its top is connected to the US mainland. Just like Korea, the island is surrounded by sea on three sides by the Yalu and Tumen Rivers, with a river on the third. Mount Baekdu is just attached to it, but even its summit is a pond. Therefore, since the water flowing down from one side is the Yalu River and the Tumen River, the land is completely separated by water.

It is connected by mountains, but even then, there is a pond above it. If you go down to the left from that pond, it is the Yalu River, and if you go down to the right, it is the Tumen River. The land is connected, but the top is split by water. So, it is divided into four parts, but we don’t call it an island. We call it a peninsula. Then, is it a peninsula like the Italian Peninsula or the Florida Peninsula? It is a “four-peninsula, not a peninsula.” We are a peninsula, yet we are not a peninsula. “Four-peninsula, not a peninsula”—that is what I mean by our land. But for those people, it is not a “four-peninsula, not a peninsula.” It is just a peninsula. Just a four-peninsula. Right, right. That is why Sadobudo is a divine being. Then, is this “Gongjeonmyeolbyeong” correct or not? The Gimhae Heo clan. It must be said to have 11 strokes. It is all correct.

Since the deal aligned like this, regarding groups like Daesunjinri, Mr. Kang Jeung-san is accurate with the stories found in the scriptures. So, later, those people named Park Woo-dang “Woo-dang” and told him to find the ox. The person who found the ox was Director of Religious Affairs Gyeong Seok-gyu. He met me. He said, “You are the ox we are looking for.” That is how the Chairman came to see me. At that time, I didn’t know if the Chairman was some kind of henchman or what. He was, in a sense, a fellow disciple under Chairman Gyeong Seok-gyu, wasn’t he? Because I was serving him. However, when I went to meet the Director of Religious Affairs under Chairman Gyeong Seok-gyu, he had already become the Supreme Patriarch. Supreme Patriarch? What is that? He was the Director of Religious Affairs, but he was given that title while he was the Director, wasn’t he? So, what title did he use there later? “Director of Gyeong Seok-gyo.” I just called him the Director of Religious Affairs. But in that kind of Mugeuk Daedo, one doesn’t just serve as the Director of Religious Affairs; in the Dojeon Mugeuk Daedo, what should we call him is the Supreme Patriarch. He becomes the Supreme Patriarch when we address him. Isn’t that right? In the Great Way of the Mugeuk, the Daesun Jinri, the Dojeon.

You know how we call things like this in various ways when we talk about prison? When we talk about prison, when we talk about prison, we call it a prison.

prison,
correctional facility,
penal ward

In the late Joseon Dynasty, this was called a prison. “That person went to the prison.” But what is it now? We call it a correctional facility. Correctional facility. What else do we call it? We call it a prison, don’t we? We call it a large prison. What else did we call a prison? A detention center isn’t a correctional facility, it’s a prison. So, we called it prison, correctional facility, prison, and so on. That is how they called the same thing by multiple names. A prison. A cell? We even called it a cell.

It’s not called hardtack. Oh my. What did they call it in the Joseon Dynasty if not a prison? What did they call that prison in the Joseon Dynasty? In the Joseon Dynasty, they called a prison a Jeonok. Jeonok.

prison

This is the character for “law” (Jeon). It is a prison (Jeonok) where people who have broken the law are locked up. That is why it is called Ok. You say, “Lock that guy in the prison.” You say, “Lock that guy in the prison,” right? It’s not like you’re saying to lock him up in a jail. This is a name given by the Japanese. The term “prison” (Gokso) came about during the late Joseon Dynasty. During the Joseon Dynasty, it was Jeonok. Since they said to lock him up, they said, “Lock that guy in the Jeonok.” Lock that guy in the Jeonok. Do you understand? If you say, “Lock that guy in the Jeonok,” that is Ok. They don’t attach the Jeon character. Jeonok, prison. You know? I’ve blurred this character out so much that you probably can’t recognize it. This is the character for “Jeong” (Jeong).

Prison, jail, prison, jail, and then there is the place we are currently in before our trial—what do you mean? A detention center. You are not supposed to stay in a detention center after the trial is over.

detention center

It is a place where you stay only until your sentence is finalized. It is a detention center. So, you usually have to stay in a detention center for about six months. You have to stay in the detention center for six months while the trial is ongoing. Then, a prison is assigned. Once the sentence is finalized, you go to prison. If you are arrested and taken in right now, you go to a detention center.

Going to a detention center, and regarding the character for prison—I wrote it so quickly—I wondered why it was written like this. It ended up looking like this. It is under the character for joint. The character for joint is swept out. It is that kind of character. I am telling you, the character for prison is like this. It is the character for “to lead.” It leads. So, how did the topic of prisons come up while we were talking? You know, the topic of prisons came up earlier while we were talking about something else. Even the Sadobudo… I mean, there are so many different names for prisons. We call them by various names, don’t we?

Right, and you were born under the Jungnyang Bridge and went to Jisu-myeon. Jinju. Jinju Jisu-myeon. You went to Jisu-myeon and attended Jisu Elementary School. You graduated from Jisu Elementary School.

Jinju Jisu-myeon Jisu Elementary School

You’re graduating from Jisu Elementary School, so what exactly did you study at a Seodang? You went to a Seodang and learned the Thousand-Character Classic. You know the Thousand-Character Classic, don’t you?

Thousand-Character Classic,
Dongmongseonseup,
Gyeokmongyogyul,
Gyeomong,
Two Thousand- Character Classic,
Myeongsimbogam,
Sohak, Cheonsikilram

After learning the Thousand Character Classic, what else did you learn? The one we teach the kids the most is Dongmongseonseup. We learn a book called Dongmongseonseup. What should we learn next? Gyeokmongyogyol. I told you about it. Gyeokmongyogyol. You learn Gyeokmongyogyol. What do you learn next? It’s the Enlightenment Chapter. There are so many. The Enlightenment Chapter, then the Myongsimbogam. Then the Sohak. In between these is the Icheonjamun. The Icheonjamun. You have to master the Icheonjamun. Then you start working your way up from the Myongsimbogam. Sohak, Daehak… go straight up. You learned all of this while attending Jisu Elementary School. You mastered the Four Books and Three Classics completely during your time at Jisu Elementary School. And at the end of this, you learned the Cheonsik and Cheonsikilram. The Cheonsikilram at the very end. I mean, you mastered the Cheonsikilram at the very end as well.

So, following this path, we covered the Sohak, Daehak, Jungyong, Lunyu, Mengzi, and Zhouyi. Then, you mastered all of these in elementary school. Do you know who the author of Gyeokmongyogyol is? It is Yulgok. This is a book written by the great scholar Yulgok Yi I. Gyeokmongyogyol. Therefore, anyone learning Chinese characters in Korea using the Korean alphabet must master this when they are young. The most important thing in Gyeokmongyogyol is the Gusado. Sisamyeong, Cheongsachong, and Eonsachung. When speaking, look at others clearly; this appears in Gyeokmongyogyol. Gusado means thinking nine times whenever we do something. There was something called Gusado, wasn’t there?

Nine Ways of Thought

This Gusa-do was created by Yulgok. It appears on the day of Gyeokmong.

When we look at others, we must always look at them positively. This “Sisa” isn’t Sisa-myeong; it’s originally Sipilsamyeong. I shortened it. It’s Sisa-myeong.

The Nine Ways of Thought:
When seeing, one must think clearly;
when speaking, one must think faithfully;
when listening, one must think intelligently.

So, when looking, you must look clearly (Sisa-myeong). When speaking, you must speak with steadfastness (Eonpil-sachung). What must you think about when speaking? Speak with a center. Loyalty (Chung) and steadfastness (Eonpil-sachung). Then, when listening… well, seeing and listening come before. When listening, you must do what? Listen with keen insight (Cheongpil-sachong). It comes out like this, doesn’t it? Listen with keen insight (Cheonpil-sachong). So, all of this comes out when you enter the Gusa-do (The Way of the Nine Paths) into the Gyeokmyeong-yogyul.

So, there is a difference in behavior between someone who learned Gyeokmyeong Yogyul in their childhood and someone who did not. It teaches how to speak and how to curse. The character pil (meaning “must” or “must”) is attached to it, so this is called Gusado, or Gupilsado. These are the nine things one must absolutely keep in mind. Then, these concepts appear in texts like Gyemongpyeon or similar works. They appear in Gyemong Seonsip, Gyeokmong Yogyul, and here in the Gyemongpyeon as well. However, this is different from those texts. It is on a higher level. This was established by Yulgok, Master Yi I. Therefore, there is a world of difference between a child who studied this in their youth and one who did not. That is how I grew up.

So, I received a holistic education. Jisu Elementary School is the most renowned school in the country. My first graduating class included Lee Byung-chul, Koo In-hwe, and Cho Hong-jae of Hyosung. 187 of Korea’s chaebols graduated from there. I was in the 38th class of that rural elementary school. I am 40 years younger than Chairman Lee Byung-chul. I got in. My grandfather went there, my father went there, and we all graduated from Jisu Elementary School. Isn’t that fascinating? So, someone born in Seoul—someone born in Junggok-dong, someone born under the Jungnang Bridge—went to this kind of elementary school. I went there and attended. It was practically predetermined, wasn’t it? I underwent intense training. Farming, twisting ropes, dealing with excrement, carrying manure buckets around—since I did all that at such a young age, do you think I grew tall? 1.74 meters is considered tall. I really grew a lot.

Almost everyone in my village who doesn’t carry a A-frame carrier is 1.8 meters tall. So, my friends from the countryside are all around 1.8 meters tall. That’s because it’s a village of the gentry, so they ate well. It wasn’t a poor village like the one in Korea. See? Our Seungjo is 1.83 meters tall. All my friends are this tall. I’m the only one carrying an A-frame carrier. So, while I was young, I studied texts like Gyeokmong Yogyol, Dongmong Seonsup, Cheonjamun, Gyeomongpyeon, Myeongsim Bogam, Sohak, and Daehak, and I worked as a farmhand.

So, how grueling was it? I would be carrying a heavy load on my back, reading a book, and then tripping and falling—oh, I got hurt in unbelievable ways. I was the only person who walked the road while reading a book. I had to read and study while coming down the mountain, even while carrying wood, so I wouldn’t get beaten up by the village school teacher the next morning. And if I didn’t do my school homework, I’d have to go see the teacher again. So, I had to do my homework, my Chinese character homework, and I had to work—it was unbelievable. I had to sell comics, too; it wasn’t just one or two things. So, did I have any time to play? No, absolutely not. That is how I grew up, and somehow, it’s just dumbfounding. I’m speechless.

You all graduated from Jinju Jisu Elementary School. My class had 300 students; back then, the graduating class had 300. Back then, there were 60 or 80 students in a class, and there were so many of them. I was the only one who wasn’t sent to middle school. Everyone else went to middle school, but I was the only one who didn’t. So, after graduating from the Seodang (traditional village school)—and my elementary school graduation was around the same time, you know?—I was the last one to leave the countryside on the day the Seodang teacher passed away. Then, our cow died. So, the Seodang teacher died, the cow was suddenly struck by an axe and died, and I left my teacher behind—all of this forced me to leave this path. It wasn’t that I left with a plan; the circumstances just turned out that way, so I came to Seoul.

Oh, and in the neighborhood, 300 students from my middle school collected money and gave it to me. How did they give it to me? Wrapped in newspaper. Why did they wrap it in newspaper? Because there were a lot of coins. It wasn’t like the 10,000-won bills we have now. They wrapped it in newspaper and gave it to me while I was cutting grass in the field. Those kids had to walk 20 ri to school. Since it was a 20-ri walk, they left early in the morning for middle school. The middle school was 20 ri away from us. They saw me on their way. They had collected the money to give to me. So they came over to me while I was cutting grass and gave it to me. They were giving it to me while crying, so how could I refuse? They told me to take it and go to Seoul to study no matter what. Since they were giving it to me, I thought, “The time has come.”

I took it, set the A-frame carrier up in the field, stitched up the trousers with this stick, left the sickle there, and was about to leave when I went up the mountain and looked back. Why did the A-frame carrier make my heart ache so much? Tears just welled up. I couldn’t even see the carrier. So later, I went to my mother’s grave to spend a night and then headed to Seoul. But as I crossed the mountain pass, I couldn’t see my village at all, and tears just welled up. I don’t even know how swollen my eyes were. That is how I left my hometown. Back then, I hadn’t been to Seoul, hadn’t I taken a train, or been anywhere outside my village. I had come all the way from Seoul, though. Isn’t that right? But I came when I was young. So, that is when my life away from home began.

Since then, I haven’t really had a proper meal. I just scavenged for food, got free meals, went around asking for watermelon rinds to eat—this is Jinju. And that’s how I arrived in Seoul.

Jisu Elementary School in Jisu-myeon, Jinju

Right, strawberries were brought in on the train, and you ate them because you were hungry. It was brought by some lady, and you enjoyed them. Oh my goodness, thinking about it now, she was practically a robber. But then, a basket of strawberries is brought right in front of a hungry person. Hey, but there are a lot of unripe ones. It looks like it was when the new strawberries sprouted. There are green ones too. There are red ones, but also green ones—they look like they were picked for the first time. Even so, they taste just so good. The lady would never have known that the strawberries were disappearing from inside that basket.

I ate according to my conscience again. Is it okay to eat that much? I nibbled on it little by little. Still, I was thirsty, and right in front of me were all shoes. Since I was lying down, I noticed those people’s shoes were old and not clean. There were so many pairs of shoes like this, you know? Because I had crawled under the people sitting on the upper deck of the train. But it’s amazing that my body could fit in there. Because I’m small. I went in there, lay down, and came back up. Just imagine how much dust there was while coming up. But when the ticket seller came, there was a knocking sound. They started cutting the tickets right there, going “click, click.”

I heard that sound, and since I came from the countryside, you have no idea how scared I was. I was lying down, and I thought they were going to drag me out in the middle of the night, but then that man just swept right past me. You wouldn’t know. Not even a ghost would know. That was the first time I had ever done something illegal. Wow, I rode the state’s train without paying. The nation’s train. So I came to Seoul, and oh, I came to Seoul and… you know, I did shoe shining.

Seoul shoe shining, rickshaw, extra, Hwagyesa Temple

After shining shoes, I pushed handcarts at Yeomcheonggyo Market. If I pushed the handcarts for the ladies buying cabbage, they would give me 500 won. Just one coin. But the thing is, handcarts couldn’t go up places like the hill in Ahyeon-dong. Back then, all of Seoul was like that because the roads were bad. So someone had to push it from below. If you pushed it, they would give you 500 won. The handcart drivers couldn’t operate the carts without someone pushing them. They couldn’t move with the vegetables loaded on them. Every neighborhood had a hill. That was how Seoul was. So there was always someone pushing from behind. Then the owner’s wife would follow. For those buying cabbage, it wasn’t like cars driving around now. So, doing that—pushing handcarts and shining shoes—and then doing extra work. Doing extra work and things like that, and then went to Hwagyesa Temple.

I changed jobs about 30 times here. I worked as a car assistant. I also drove buses. I had a bus accident when I was 15. And then, a fire broke out while I was sleeping in a car or bus. While doing all that, I went to a factory that made gold rings and bled a lot from my nose. Wow, I can’t even describe it. After doing all that, I went to Hwagyesa Temple, and there I saw the Tripitaka Koreana.

Hwagyesa Tripitaka Koreana

It was a piece of cake just looking at it. I mastered it all in three years. I memorized the entire Tripitaka. You just memorize it all once you see it. That’s why I still memorize the parts of the Tripitaka. He was good at that, and then here, the monk, Master Seung Sahn—the best monk in our country—was the best fighter in our country.

He was someone who expelled married monks and visited temples like Haeinsa. When Master Seung-san was 37, he said he was going to America. He gave Hwagyesa Temple to someone else, went to Japan penniless, and headed to the U.S. He told me, “Hey, the way I see it, you shouldn’t become a monk. You have work you need to do. So let’s leave together.” So, you followed Master Seung-san out. Master Seung-san was heading to America clutching a single bundle of forsythias, and he said he was going via Japan. He said he had to go to Busan to catch a ship, so he took a bus and a train from Seoul Station, and he waved goodbye to me. He told me I wouldn’t see him alive again. “Gyeong-yeong, you study. Don’t stay at the temple. Instead, go to Cheongnyongsa Temple to study for the time being. There is a monk there, so it is a good place to study.”

Because there is no work there. Right, I was looking for it but couldn’t find it. When I came down at night, there were five women, and they were all deacons. Deacons from Naesudong Church. Naesudong Church is next to the Sejong Center in Gwanghwamun. There are two churches there—Jongno Church and that other church—and they are deacons from that Naesudong Church. They snatched my bag away. They asked why I was going to the temple when there were idols there. To the temple. So, everyone, remember this. What is the first of the Ten Commandments in Christianity?

You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not worship idols.
You shall not take God’s name in vain.
You shall keep the Sabbath.
You shall honor your parents; you shall not be disobedient to them.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not lie.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house.

Do not serve any other gods before me. Second, do not worship idols. Third, do not take God’s name in vain. Fourth, keep the Sabbath. Fifth, do not disobey your parents. Sixth, do not murder. Seventh, do not commit adultery. Eighth, do not steal. Ninth, do not lie. Tenth, do not covet your neighbor’s house. It is written like this.

This is how it is, but Buddhism is different. Buddhism isn’t structured like this. Instead, what you need to know is that you don’t need all these commandments. If you don’t keep the very first one—this, this—then is it any use keeping everything else? That is a snake’s head. It is just like our heads. So, serving other gods besides me and doing this and that is of no use. No matter how much you observe. It ends when you always keep only the First Commandment. What I am saying is, if I tell you that you will go to Heaven while serving someone other than a God-Man, does that make sense to you? What is the First Commandment? You have to follow Huh Kyung-young. So, this First Commandment is the head of the man.

So, there are people who serve idols while worshipping other gods besides me. Then, isn’t that serving another god besides me? Isn’t serving me the same as serving God? Therefore, if you break the first commandment, the other commandments automatically collapse. You must understand that. You don’t need to know ten things. Just keep the first commandment in mind and observe it. Understood? So, God is the Absolute. There is a God. Just believe that one thing—that is Jehovah, that is the God-man. If you believe this firmly, then everything else—whether it is adultery, disobedience to parents, stealing someone’s house, or robbery—doesn’t matter.

So, when studying the Dharma or the scriptures, it is simple. You shouldn’t think in a complicated way. I ignorantly approach it simply and strip away everything. It’s quite a peculiar approach. So, when you look into this, specifically the Buddhist scriptures, there are the Ten Commandments. Killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, stealing, slander, divisive speech, and greed, hatred, and delusion—these are the Ten Commandments. If you kill, it is useless to observe the rest. If you go and kill someone, even if you have done the best deed in the world and kept all the commandments, it is of no use. If you keep the commandment against killing, the others can be forgiven. Is that right or not? But for someone who has killed, will that sin disappear immediately? So, regarding killing, in Buddhism, the sin of killing and the sin of serving a god other than oneself are on the same plane. That is why Buddhism emphasizes killing the most, while Christianity emphasizes God the most. I made a comparison using that first commandment when I was young.

So, at Hwagyesa Temple, they sent me and the monk to Seoul Station, and while I was looking for the temple but couldn’t find it, I met five women. And then, Pastor Hong Geun-seop of Naesudong Church. You went into Naesudong Church as Pastor Hong Geun-seop’s adopted son, didn’t you? You went in as Pastor Hong Geun-seop’s son.

Pastor Hong Geun-seop of Naesudong Church

He was a pastor who came down from North Korea. But he was deaf in one ear because he was beaten by the communist forces. So, Pastor Hong Geun-seop had no wife or children and was all alone, and I went in there. I called him “Father,” and the two of us slept under a single blanket. He absolutely refused to accept blankets brought by parishioners. He lived his entire life covering only the blanket he brought from North Korea until he passed away. So, I was under the control of a very scary person.

So, I was worried about sleeping every night. When we slept close together, sometimes the pastor would take all the blankets, and other times I would bring them back. It was chaotic. We were sleeping huddled together with just one blanket, so it was really uncomfortable. That’s why I taught the Sunday class kids there. I taught them hymns and the Bible.
So, they mastered the entire Bible here, didn’t they? They completely devoured the entire Christian Bible. You know that. So, they mastered all the Confucian and Buddhist texts here, too, didn’t they?

Seodang
Hwagyesa Temple Tripitaka
Koreana Naesudong Church Pastor Hong Geun-seop Bible

It was a total mastery. Probably because I had to teach the kids. I had to dig deep. So, I left a pastor’s house during high school. After my sophomore year, during my junior year, I needed to study hard, but the work for the church kids was piled up like a mountain every single day.

So, I would go from Naesudong Church to Hongje-dong to lead the kids in playing the drums. The drums were as tall as me. I would carry them on my front and on my stomach—I wonder why I had to shoulder so much. When I went to the temple, I had to carry a A-frame carrier and bring back water. I had to chop wood. It was Hwagyesa Temple, carrying the A-frame carrier every single day. At Hwagyesa, you can’t do anything without carrying things. I’m telling you, the well is right over there. It’s not the kind of place where water just comes out if you turn on the tap right now. I had to go fetch water, carry it back, bring it to the kitchen, and cook. So, that wasn’t an easy job. It put a tremendous strain on my back, even though I was just a kid. On top of that, since I went to see the pastor, every Saturday I had to carry a drum this big on my shoulder—it was heavy. While leading the kids, I couldn’t see ahead because the drum was blocking the view. I’m just a kid, you know? Even though it was my high school, I was still quite young. I mean, I couldn’t see the road.

We beat the drum and go up and down the mountain. We go up to the fortress ruins on Mt. Inwang and beat the drum. From the fortress, you can see the entire neighborhood and the shantytown. When we beat the drum loudly there, all the kids come up. Usually, about 100 kids come up. There are so many kids. What happens is that they ask us to go eat noodles. If you go to church, they give you noodles for free. But they put something in the noodles to make them incredibly delicious. They slice up pumpkin and put it in, but once the kids eat the noodles, they leave. So they have to go eat that. The neighborhood moms tell them to hurry up and go eat the noodles. Then, they lead those 100 kids back, and as they come, they keep the rhythm with the drum. The voice of Jesus calling out to us is so gentle. Like, “Come out to the front door.” There is a song, you know. “Come, come,” and just like that.

I would tell them not to wander and come, and as I walked along, patting them on the ground, the kids would sing along. They would sing that song. And then they would come back having sung dozens of hymns. So when they came to the Naesudong church and I gave them noodles, the kids would eat them with gusto. Because they were poor back then. After they ate that, I had to preach. I would preach, see them off, and that was it. You couldn’t study at all. That entire time was just wasted; there wasn’t a single moment for studying. You couldn’t study on Saturdays or Sundays. Oh dear, I tried it for about a year and a half, but then I was told by the pastor, “You have to earn your own living.” Church work was just a service. So, I even went to a gold ring factory. That pastor knew someone who was the owner. It was located at Seoul Station. I went in there, and it was just melting gold. I was in charge of that.

But cyanide is a white powder. When putting in gold, when melting it, you have to keep adding the cyanide powder with a spoon. But that gets into your nose. Because it boils so vigorously, you get nosebleeds—I bled from my nose every single day—so eventually, I couldn’t do it anymore. Also, the gold ring factory has no windows. When you lock it at night, it becomes a safe. So, even though the employees inside breathe during the day, they are out of breath. Why? Because they are melting gold. Because they keep stoking the fire. But if there were windows in the area, it would be because of thieves. So, when you go inside, you place the gold nuggets on a scale. The gold nuggets aren’t in the warehouse; they are on the scale. When you take them off, you have to record the weight underneath.

“We took 2kg, or maybe 1kg. The gold wasn’t in the form it is now; it was raw ore, a gold nugget. We took it out. I’m telling you, we took it out and used it. Why do you say that? Just let a thief take this. It’s a gold nugget this big. Hey, that’s a factory that exports gold rings. I melted so much gold there that I have to alloy it. I have to put in brass, add gold, and make it 18K. But when you put in cyanide powder, pitch-black smoke comes out and something black rises up. That’s grime. That’s impurities. If you remove that, the color of the gold changes.”

So, I was refining gold there, but I had to quit because I got a nosebleed. I couldn’t breathe. Later, I started getting nosebleeds even in the classroom, and I thought it was going to be a disaster. So I said, “Pastor, I’m going to stop being your son now. I’m going to go up to the top of Hongje-dong, pitch a tent, and study there.” So I went up to the top of Hongje-dong, pitched a tent, and studied. Then, remember when someone got their leg injured and broken? So I went to someone who was a bit well-off. People wouldn’t let me do that kind of thing, so I didn’t do it. I went to someone who was a bit well-off, and I had some breathing room. I barely survived back then. I developed peritonitis. Oh, studying in minus 30 degrees is indescribable. Every night, rats would come and bite my nose, and my nose fell off a few times. I mean, they would poke right under my nose, right between my nose and nose. Then the rat would pull. I was sleeping inside that tent, after all.

A field mouse came and bit my nose hard with its teeth. It wasn’t biting the food in my nose; you know that spot in the middle of my nose called the oxtail? It bit the meat hard. And then it pulled. I opened my eyes while sleeping, and there was the mouse. It had bitten my nose hard, and the teeth had gone right through it. The teeth went from one side of my nose to the other. It was pulling at the radish. So I woke up and saw it was pulling my nose. I felt like if I hit it, my nose would fly off. It would tear. Wouldn’t that happen? So I nudged the mouse gently. Wow, but it kept pulling. So the area underneath was torn. It healed, it healed, but blood was gushing out. It was a field mouse, a field mouse. So, the disease the field mouse transmitted was probably what caused me to have some kind of problem. That is why my belly started swelling up.

My appendix ruptured. It turned into peritonitis. Because of that, I ended up at a rich person’s house. I was on my way to the afterlife. They told me not to come back, to keep going. I was lying down to sleep when a deer came into my tent and started stepping on my belly. I opened my eyes and saw that the deer had come inside because it was cold. It didn’t know I was there, or that I was lying down. I lived in a tent like that, stepping on it, during the winter when it was minus 30 degrees. That was my study life. I went to high school eating just one hotteok a day.

Then, you joined a wealthy family. So, that house where I served… with their help—I don’t need to mention who exactly it was—but thanks to their help, I was able to study. I received a normal education. Then, I went to the army. So, you went to Nonsan Training Center. Where was the first place you were assigned after arriving at the training center? I was assigned to the Okin-dong Counterintelligence Unit, located next to the Blue House in Okin-dong. That is the Security Command now. I arrived at the Counterintelligence Unit, but on that very day, the name was changed to the Security Command. Mr. Kang Chang-sung had been the head of the Counterintelligence Unit. Suddenly, the name was changed to the Security Command. And that Security Commander ended up being Kim Jae-gyu.

After Kang Chang-sung stepped down, Kim Jae-gyu became the Commander of the Security Command, and I was right under him. That’s where I started my military career, wearing civilian clothes and carrying a pistol without cutting my hair. So, I was at the Uijeongbu Checkpoint with the 106th Security Unit. I had been in the Blue House Security Unit, then transferred to counterintelligence, and then joined the 106th Security Unit, which is the Army Corps Security Unit at the Uijeongbu Checkpoint. From there, I went to Gangwon Province, towards Chuncheon, then to Gwangju and Daegu. After staying in Daegu, I went back to Gwangju, South Jeolla Province, and served at the 30th Division. Since I was a member of the security unit, I moved around freely. I could go to the 1st and 2nd Armies as I pleased. From Gwangju, I went back to Chuncheon, and from Chuncheon, I went to Vietnam.

You traveled a lot, didn’t you? Right. You went to Vietnam, and there, a “God-like” person handled all the investigations for every case that occurred at the Ministry of Justice—a white horse prosecutor, a Ministry of Justice clerk. At that time, my assigned prosecutor was an Army Captain. His name was Prosecutor Jang Dong-hwan. He came to my lecture hall not long ago. He is the Army Judge Advocate General. He has several stars on his uniform—equivalent to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court here in our country. He became the Judge Advocate General of the Army. That is why he came to my lecture. People were saying, “Oh, Mr. Huh Kyung-young,” and when I looked, I saw this was the man I served as a prosecutor in Vietnam decades ago. If you look here, this is my military service record. Look. I was assigned to the 29th Regiment in Nonsan.

Turn up the volume. This is the Nonsan 29th Regiment. It says 29, doesn’t it? It’s 1971. February 15th. That’s correct. But what is this next? Transfer. Make this writing a bit lighter. Look. Reception Regiment. April 6, 1970. What is this? Is this some kind of directive the basis? Based on this kind of grounds, is he listed as a security soldier here or not? He is. The most important thing is that he went there as a security soldier. So, he received training as part of the 100th class at the Security School. Right there at the Blue House. The Security School is located near Seooneung. He received training as part of the 100th class at that Security School. “Security soldier” appears here, doesn’t it?

So, this means it’s the Second Training Center. And if you look here, it says Security School. This is the Security Command. So, you’re saying I went to the Security Command above. On April 2, 1971, I was assigned to the Security Command located next to the Blue House. That was when the Counterintelligence Corps was transferred to the Security Command. And do you see the words “Security Command” here? Do you see the Security School next to it? I went to the school. I went to the Security Command, worked at the Blue House, and then went to the Security School just a few days later. There, I met dozens of second-generation chaebol heirs. I noticed that a lot of the sons of our country’s wealthy families were at the Security Command.

So, the current Chairman of Crown Confectionery, Haitai Crown, is Yoon Young-dal. His younger brother is Yoon Young-wook. Yoon Young-wook was my classmate at the Security School, in the 100th class. So, I met an enormous number of sons of wealthy families there. They said you couldn’t get in there unless you were a son of a rich family. That was the situation back then. Out of the thousands at Nonsan Training Center, only four people went to the Security School. Those were the people with connections. So, I was in the Security School’s basic training course for enlisted soldiers, the 100th class. It was the 106th Security Unit in Uijeongbu. The 106th Security Unit refers to the 6th Corps in Pocheon. So, I received my orders for the 106th Security Unit on May 11, 1971. So, I went to the 106th Security Unit, and then came to the 205th Replacement Unit—this is Daegu. If you look here, it says 205th Replacement Unit. That is Daegu. I was there, and then suddenly moved to Daegu again. Then, I was transferred again to some headquarters, some unit, and so on. To the Army Education Command Headquarters. The Jeonnam Training Center is in Gwangju. If you go to Gwangju, there is the Jeonnam Training Center. That is where you receive training. Go to the Jeonnam Training Command Headquarters. Then, it is set up as the 7th Security Department or something like that. So, I’ll upload this here next.

Back in ’72, here… what is this? The 9th Division? The 9th Division. It’s all 9s. I was assigned to the 9th Division. It would say something like 9th Division Security. I was assigned to the Headquarters Company. Then I went to the 1st Division. Oh my, soldiers are supposed to stay in one place once they get there, but I moved around to dozens of places. So, where is the 1st Division? It’s over there in Ilsan. Ilsan 1st Division… no, over here in Munsan. You know how they say President Park used to be the 1st Division Commander here? And you know the guy who was the 12th Regiment Commander here?

Chun Doo-hwan served as the commander of the 1st Division here, and then Roh Tae-woo did as well. After that, he came to the 12th Regiment. The regimental commander at that time was Colonel Park Se-jik, the one who led the Olympics. That was Colonel Park Se-jik. I met Colonel Park Se-jik here. When I arrived right after receiving my assignment to the 12th Regiment, Colonel Park Se-jik greeted me. That Colonel Park Se-jik later led the Olympics under President Chun Doo-hwan and under Roh Tae-woo, didn’t he? He was the overall commander in charge of that. I met that person. Then, he kept moving from the 2nd Company to the Division Headquarters, then the Company Headquarters, and so on. My discharge date was probably February 27, 1973. I was discharged. So, regarding the trip to Vietnam from here, you know? The trip to Vietnam needs to be shown here. The 1st Division Headquarters Company. The 9th Division—this is Vietnam.

Do you see the 9th Division here? You were discharged from the 9th Division in ’72. You went to Vietnam with the Security 9th Division. That is the deployment to Vietnam. Understand? You went to the 9th Division, stayed for a year and a half, and came back. So, this was ’72, and now it’s April ’73. Look. Like this, like this, the 1st Division. Then, the 12th Regiment of the 1st Division—that was around the time of your discharge. You traveled all over the military, from the front lines to the rear. Then, can an ordinary person go into this security unit? Absolutely not. No matter how good your connections are, you can’t get into the security unit. I mean, would just anyone get into a place where people walk around in suits carrying pistols? There must have been something. Even if I tell them, they won’t believe me. They just won’t believe me. They ask, “Why were you by that person’s side?” and things like that, so what can I say?

I don’t say things like that anymore. But my record card shows it that way, doesn’t it? Oh my, military life in Vietnam… how many officers… Is this my photo from when I returned from Vietnam? Look. Presidential candidate Huh Kyung-young is boarding a plane at Natah Rang Airfield in Vietnam in February 1973 to evacuate to his homeland as part of the last withdrawing troops, a few months after the armistice following his direct experience of a fratricidal proxy war between great powers. You have to make a circle mark. It’s my face. You can’t wear civilian clothes when boarding this plane. You have to wear full military gear and fasten your backpack. It’s combat readiness. Everyone boards the plane carrying guns.

So, to board this plane, we had to wear full combat gear, including a helmet, to be able to get on. It was a World Aeration plane, and as soon as we boarded, the American stewardess looked like a Miss Korea. Back then, it was an American plane, a chartered flight that carried 500 people. We had 500 people on board. The division commander was on board, and everyone was there too. But we waited two days for this plane. It finally appeared after two days. Since it was wartime, the plane didn’t arrive right away. So, we lay down on the runway—since it wasn’t cold there—and slept for two nights. We ate the military AI C-rations there and slept. The entire army was just sitting there sleeping.

While they were sleeping, a North Korean plane just arrived and said, “Young soldiers of the Republic of Korea, why are you fighting in a foreign country like this? If you don’t return immediately, you will never see your mothers and fathers back home again.” She kept saying things like that. I don’t know how a South Korean woman could speak so well. So, all the soldiers started crying. They lay on the runway, weeping and asking, “When is this damn plane coming?” Then, the plane flew low. As it flew low, it used the microphone to try and mentally prepare them. It asked, “Why are you fighting in Vietnam? I want you to return quickly to your homeland where your parents and siblings are.” Because of this, the young men’s hearts softened, and it caused quite a commotion.

It’s absolutely dumbfounding. But the entire area around this airport is covered in Viet Cong flags. Red flags, Viet Cong flags are flying everywhere. So there isn’t a single person siding with the South Vietnamese government; everyone is a commie. Everyone is a Viet Cong. So, even while lying on the runway, how could anyone possibly fall asleep? It was a matter of life or death; it was intense when this plane finally arrived just as it was the last one. So, when I boarded the plane, it was like heaven. Fun. Hmm, but these guys didn’t even think about taking pictures. I was the only one who managed to capture this photo. They aren’t security forces, you know? Do they have any power? They just have to get on. But I had someone taking my picture. They’d tell me to take it, and I’d take it.

So, the officers of the White Horse Division knew that if they disobeyed orders and jumped out of helicopters on the battlefield, they would all die. So the platoon leader kept shouting, “Withdraw! Withdraw!” But the regimental commander would yell, “Hey, you punk! Why aren’t you advancing? What are you doing? Advance! Advance! We can’t do this right now! The men will all die!” He wouldn’t listen to the division commander, the regimental commander, or even the battalion commander. These guys were being captured, and hundreds were being brought in. Dozens were disobeying orders. But when I looked, every single one of his subordinates who tried to jump out of the helicopter was dying on the spot. The flag was firing from below. Everyone who jumped was dying, but because they were being told to jump, the men couldn’t bring themselves to jump out of the helicopter.

As soon as they went down, they screamed and died. But you could see it from about 3 or 4 meters away. So the company commander and platoon leader just kicked them hard, and they fell straight down with a barrage of stuttering and died. However, because they weren’t sent down quickly enough, the battalion commander radioed in, “You bastard, you are disobeying orders! Send them down quickly, whether they live or die!” So, I was writing the report. I wrote it all. I was the prosecutor’s clerk. But while writing it all, I let them off the hook. Disobeying orders carries a sentence of at least 7 years in prison or the death penalty. But I made sure none of them went to prison. And all those officers who disobeyed orders were graduates of the Korea Military Academy.

Since they graduated from the Korea Military Academy, going to the battlefield is the fastest way to get promoted. That is why these are soldiers who volunteered for Vietnam. Is it right to turn those precious children of other families into ex-convicts? The reason our prosecutor likes me so much is that he asks, “Please, let’s just be lenient.” Is Vietnam some kind of place that turns our officers from the Military Academy into ex-convicts? Their own children are dying, their own soldiers are dying left and right; how can they just follow orders—even though they aren’t on the scene themselves—and tell them to advance and deploy? It just doesn’t work. So, do you think I did a lot of good deeds or not?

So, that prosecutor came to my lecture hall. He is a three-star Army Lieutenant General. He is the Army Military Police Commissioner and the Army Judge Advocate General. He is the highest-ranking person in the Army when it comes to legal matters. The Army Judge Advocate General. Do you understand? In other words, he is the highest civilian equivalent to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He became that and came to see me. So, I saw him not long ago as well. He came to the lecture hall in Jongno. I think his name is Lieutenant General Jang Dong-hwan. The Army Judge Advocate General. He went into society, didn’t become a lawyer, didn’t become a judge, and just spent his entire military life.

If you look at my military record, it’s clear that I served there. But they tell me it’s all a lie. They say it’s all a lie. If you look here, the 7th Security… what, what, over there, the 9th Division—that’s Vietnam. It’s May 16, 1972. Then I left here and went to the 1st Division. 1st Division, 12th Regiment, 2nd Company. That’s how my discharge came out later. It’s truly unbelievable, isn’t it? If you look at my military life here, it’s listed as “Security,” right? No. 59—this is the Security School, Basic Weapons Training, 100th Class. And it’s the 100th Class of the Security School. So, up until the 99th Class, the Security School was in Hongneung. For the 100th Class, it was in Seosomun, over there, Seooneung
. Since the school moved, imagine how much work there was? Yes, the 100th Class of the Security School really suffered a lot. The people listening to my lecture right now are probably looking at my days at the Security School. Next, put that aside. This is my military record.

Then, right when I first started providing free meals at the age of 21, the very first thing I did was volunteer work in rural areas. I served as the leader of the Korean Rural Volunteer Corps.

Korea Rural Volunteer Corps Leader
Usan Volunteer (President of the Korea Volunteer Association for the Needy)

It was a volunteer group. I was part of a rural volunteer group; we brought in college students to the countryside to plant rice seedlings and do things like that. I did this for a long time. While doing that, I moved on to the umbrella volunteering. At that time, I was the president of the Korea Volunteer Service for the Needy. I was the president, and that was my work with college students from all over the country. Play the video. When I led college students from across the nation in rural volunteering, this was the very first thing I did in society. So, I did it nationwide.

Okay, upload the records from when I served as the President of the Korea Association for the Needy and the Commander of the Korea Rural Volunteer Corps. So, people don’t really know what I did first. The very first thing I did was the rural volunteer movement. Gathering university students during the busy farming season and going to work in the countryside. I’m telling you, I was the first to do that. Look at this. It is Buddha’s Birthday in the year 2527 of the Buddhist calendar. Look at Yeouido. I am standing on the platform amidst a million Buddhist believers gathered in Yeouido. I am standing on the platform, aren’t I? This is Venerable Chantananta. The Supreme Patriarch of Sri Lanka and the Supreme Patriarch of Buddhism. This is Oh Nok-won, the President of the Jogye Order. And this is me. I was young back then, wasn’t I? Zoom in on this photo a bit. This is me standing to the side. This woman here is Song Chun-hee. The singer Song Chun-hee. This person is the President of the Buddhist Association. If you look closely, this person is the Head of the Military Order Corps under the Ministry of Justice. Since Buddhist monks are dispatched to the military, he is the highest-ranking person. This is the President of the Jogye Order. Well, all these figures from the Buddhist community are gathered here, and I am standing right here, aren’t I? My clothes are pretty. It came out well, didn’t it?

Ah, back then, when I was young, the theater in our countryside was a makeshift one, you know? But since we didn’t have the money, we couldn’t get in. So, there were about 30 kids sitting there, around 6, 7, or under 10 years old. The movie would start, but there was nobody there except for those 30 little kids sitting there, praying and keeping watch. So, who were those 30 kids looking at? They were staring only at that one person’s face. He would absolutely never let them in. They would stare intently at his face. He did that to me every single time. Then, tears would well up in my eyes, just barely. I mean, because they were looking at me so radiantly, he would say, “Come out here. What’s your name?” “I’m Huh Kyung-young.” “Come out here. Go in. You guys go in.” He let them in every single time.

But whenever the movie came, I just had to go and look at that person. I would just stare at him like this, and he would say, “Hey, what’s your name? Huh Kyung-young, come out here. You go in. The others can’t go in.” But at that moment, I couldn’t bring myself to say, “Please let them in too.” When the kids around me were young, we already felt bad about letting me in, so I couldn’t exactly ask, “Please let the kids in too.” So I would just slip right in by myself. It wasn’t just once or twice. It happened every time a different person came. But every time he came and looked at me, he would let me in. It was like I was sending some strange telepathic message. He would look at me with such pity.

Then, that connects our hearts. They say things like, “Hey, you, come out here.” And my clothes are the dirtiest. My clothes are the dirtiest. Because it’s not like my parents are going to change my clothes for me. But they point me out specifically and let me in. “You go in and watch the movie.” So, this person is exactly that person. This is the 12th or 13th floor of the Hankook Ilbo. You know the Hankook Ilbo 20th Anniversary? It’s a mirror. So, this is the spot in the Hankook Ilbo building where they select Miss Korea. They hold the Miss Korea pageant here every year. But monks also use this place as an event venue. Look at that photo.

Because I have served the Buddhist community so extensively, there is a Venerable Hwang Jin-gyeong, the President of the General Administration. The President called me here, asking me to do some service for Buddhism. I mean, Buddhism invited me here. Even the country’s senior monks in Yeouido cannot stand next to this person. But the reason I am standing here is because I have done so much service. So, Buddhism kept calling me here, trying to bring me in. So, Venerable Hwang Jin-gyeong, the Sri Lankan monk, and the interpreter—you see, here I am standing?

It looks like someone is standing over there. On the opposite side. This is me. This is from when I went to Japan. It is a photo I took a long time ago when I went to Japan. Push it aside. This is right in the center, in front of the event venue in Yeouido. It is my photo. Next, if you look here, there is me. Right here. This is Venerable Byeon Mi-ryeon. You know that Bongeunsa Temple in Gangnam? She is the head monk there, Venerable Byeon Mi-ryeon. This is Bongeunsa. And here is the president of the Korean Buddhist Youth Association. I am the president of the Youth Association. These are Buddhist youths. These many youths are presidents from all over the country. If you look, everyone here is wearing a name tag. Everyone is wearing a name tag. I am wearing a name tag, too, aren’t I?

I served as an advisor for the Korean Buddhist Youth Association. That is because they nominated me. Then, the Jogye Order asked me to do some service for Korean Buddhism, saying that I had done a lot of volunteer work. So, I became the President of the Buddhist Volunteer Association. I served as the President of the Korean Buddhist Volunteer Association as well. Show me the photo of me as the President of the Buddhist Volunteer Association. That is why volunteer organizations called upon me from all over—the Christian Volunteer Association President, the Buddhist Volunteer Association President, and so on. Because I did a lot of volunteer work. Next, that post… why isn’t it showing up? That post. Heo Cheong-ryeon… isn’t that Venerable Park Sam-jung? It lists Huh Kyung-young as the President of the Korean Buddhist Volunteer Association, the National Association for the Rehabilitation of Prisoners in Prisons, doesn’t it?

The Buddhist community asked me to serve as a president dedicated to service. The President of the Jogye Order gave me my letter of appointment. If you have that letter, hold it up to the light. It was the General Secretary of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism—this was in 1986. So, I was active in both Christian and Buddhist service movements. In other words, regardless of religion, I engaged in service with all faiths. It states, “We present this certificate of appreciation to honor your dedication to senior welfare projects, as you have helped grandparents suffering from old age with both material and spiritual support.” So, I didn’t just do service in rural areas; I served Buddhists and Christians as well—I provided the material resources to serve them all. There is no time to stay in just one place for long.

Republic of Korea Volunteer Award. Ministry of Justice Republic of Korea Volunteer Award. This is Yoo Je-seon from the Seoul Juvenile Detention Center under the Ministry of Justice. You have always shown special interest in guiding delinquent youths. You actively supported the correctional education of the inmates under your protection. Juveniles. Protective administration. This is also the Director of the Cheongju Ministry of Justice Treatment and Custody Center. You have provided material and spiritual support for the underprivileged children of Haemyung. You know how I appear in the Buddhist Volunteer Association and all that?

This is something we covered earlier, too. This is the Warden of Cheongju Prison. Sir, who is this? It’s Kim Cheol, the President and Chairman of the Korean Red Cross. Kia did all sorts of things like “Beautiful Sharing” for our neighbors in need. The Beautiful Republic of Korea Award. Turn it around again. The Rehabilitation Committee Member of the Ministry of Justice. No, the one I posted yesterday regarding the Chief Prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice. Not this one; this is from when I was 40. So, since that was 18 years ago. From when I was 22.

What are the Ministry of Justice and Prosecutor’s Office appointment letters doing?

Did you find all of Heo Cheong-ryeon’s stuff?

Now, regarding this, you served on the Ministry of Justice’s Committee for Economic Protection.

And regarding the rural volunteer work—look, the Prosecutor’s Office did that too. So, for me, everything was volunteer work. My entire youth was volunteer work. The Minister of Justice arranged this for me, didn’t he? To protect the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice’s rehabilitation protection for delinquent youths. Then, this is something I do while going back and forth between prisons. What is this? The regional offices, our Seoul Prosecutor’s Office. The Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul District Prosecutor’s Office gave this to me. I am a member of the District Prosecutor’s Office Juvenile Guidance Committee. I am a standing guidance committee member. Actually, promote the conditional suspension of indictment system for guidance—Heo Cheong-nyeong’s. Heo Cheong-nyeong’s. So, there is a lot of work here, isn’t there?

So, if young people, students, or minors under the age of 20 come somewhere and are sentenced to two years in prison, and I take them under my care for just those two years, they won’t go to jail. It is a conditional suspension of indictment. They would normally be indicted and sent to prison, but if I take them under my care, they won’t go. Then the prosecution sends those kids to me, rather than sending them to prison. If they send them to Mr. Huh, I will guide them so they won’t be arrested. That’s it. So, if you wanted to make money from this, you would make a fortune. That’s because they simply won’t be arrested unconditionally. So, did they do this for just anyone back then? Back then, I didn’t just do things like this; I did countless forms of volunteer work, from rural and fishing communities to Buddhist and Christian services. You have no idea how much time I spent doing that. Quick, put up something else. Now, find this too. While I’m talking.

This is the invitation. This is President Bush’s invitation. It’s the original President Bush invitation. It’s quite old. But you tell me I didn’t meet Bush, don’t you? This is Mrs. Bush. This is President Bush’s invitation. So, it doesn’t come out. This is gold-colored. Push it aside. This side, this side… this is Bush, and this is Mrs. Bush.
Here, here is Bush. Microphone, mic… next, push it aside. Push this aside, please push this aside. Push it aside again. President, Vice President. Push it aside again, push it aside again. President’s family. Vice President’s family. Push it aside again, again. Okay, this is the profile of guest lecturer Huh Kyung-young. This is the Rotary Club. The Rotary Club of Korea. I gave this lecture at the Rotary Club Training Center. I traveled to the provinces an enormous number of times to give lectures. Lectures for these kinds of organizations.

Also, if you look here, Huh Kyung-young is number one. If you look at the ranking of politicians’ homepages. Huh Kyung-young’s mini-homepage has 113,159 hits. Park Geun-hye has 15,000. That’s 10 times more. Next is Lee Myung-bak with 13 million. How many times more am I? 10 times more. Then there’s Chung Dong-young, Na Kyung-won, and Lee Hoi-chang. Lee Hoi-chang has 2,935 hits. The hit counts go down like this. So, the rankings for politicians’ mini-homepage addresses and the overall rankings come out like this. It comes out like this. It’s 2009. So, I have the most supporters among politicians, don’t I? Don’t try showing that again. Try another one. Try something else. Just scroll through them quickly and uniformly. Why are you holding onto this for so long?

What is this? Huh Kyung-young returned right after his release. This is when I got out of prison. Lee Myung-bak dropped to 4th place for the first time since becoming president. Huh Kyung-young returned and took 1st place. Then Park Geun-hye, Na Kyung-won, and Lee Myung-bak were 4th. So there was a huge gap. That’s how it was. At that time, I received 49 CF offers. I was overwhelmed with commercials. That’s the level of popularity I had. Who could handle me? Look here, Huh Kyung-young at 113,159. Park Geun-hye, Lee Myung-bak, Chung Dong-young—is that the order? It was always in this exact order. Skip it again. Quick, open something else. These are all consistently 1st place as well. The internet homepage political rankings are out. Huh Kyung-young is 1st. Lee Hoi-chang, Lee Myung-bak, Chung Dong-young, Park Geun-hye are listed one after another.

And you know the daily best rankings for popular businesspeople, politicians, and foreign politicians on Naver? What are the rankings for all Korean businesspeople and politicians on Naver? It’s rankings like Huh Kyung-young, Park Geun-hye, Lee Myung-bak, Roh Moo-hyun, Lee Hoi-chang, Kim Hee-sun, Park Chung-hee, and Kim Dae-jung. That is the popularity ranking for politicians at the time. He was ranked number one out of about 3,000 politicians. You can’t believe a single one of this is fake. It was tremendous. Everyone, it is certain that he met Bush like this, but they are saying it wasn’t.

This is Cheongpung’s son. When I was in the army, Cheongpung looked at me and said, “You’re good at reading faces.” He looked at me and asked, “Mr. He, why?” He said he wanted to use his son for free for just three years. So, this is that son. He asked me to look after his son for three years. He said he would pay the salary himself. So, Cheongpung paid the salary for three years and entrusted his son to me. This was when he was running for president. This is his son. So he worked under me for three years, completed exactly three years, and returned to his father. If you go to the Cheongpung office now, his son is there. If you go there, this guy is sitting right there.

This is my venue. I’m alone on stage, aren’t I? Do you see these kids? They’re all cell phones. I’m lifting my leg this high. These kids are taking pictures here. How many tens of thousands are there? This was taken when I was doing “Right Now.” These are my feet, my soles. The female students are going wild. It’s hard for people to gather like that on a university parade ground. Who would gather tens of thousands of people? But because Huh Kyung-young is performing, tens of thousands have gathered. It’s 10 PM. It’s a 10 PM performance. Amazing. You saw the video. Us. Hey, play this. Change it quickly. That article about Huh Kyung-young. Did you find it? Who put up the article about Huh Kyung-young a long time ago? Is that how you input it there? This is what I look like when I perform. Zoom in on this photo now. Zoom in a little more. Here, this is me. Look at these kids’ hands.

This is Hongdae. This is a Hongdae performance, and look at their hands. They got captured cool. That’s me. Because we were dancing like this. Our hair was all twisted up. Michael Jackson can’t even compare. Look at these guys. Look at these hands. When I hold my hand like this, all their hands are raised. They’re just like this, you know? I took a good picture of this. It’s a photo from a performance. You just can’t hold this. If I tried to hold it with this hand, it would be chaos. It looks cool, doesn’t it? It looks cool. I find this fun, though.

A photo taken inside the U.S., when I went to meet Bush. Isn’t it interesting? It would look great hanging on a wall. This is the party venue where I met Bush. All the chairs were made of brass. Union Station. You can see the statues here. The ceiling is about 10 stories high. The ceiling is about 10 stories high. He is sitting here now, isn’t he? Who is this person? Lee Ki-ho, the Presidential Senior Secretary for Economic Affairs. This is me. This is inside Bush’s party venue. Bush is here; this is a photo of him sitting next to me. He is introducing me. This Lee Ki-ho was the Presidential Senior Secretary for Economic Affairs at the time. I am sitting here, aren’t I?

Look here, what number is it? Number 300-something? Number 33 is my seat. So, look over here. There are a total of 300 people sitting inside. We were invited from all over the world, and this is where we are meeting Bush in person. This is Union Station. Look here, the building is tall. Show me another picture. Another picture. These are foreign women. Foreign women. Foreign women. Show me again. Look, did I not go to the U.S.? See this? These are Korean people in the U.S. These are all Americans. These are all people living in the U.S. Show me again. This entrance door is unique. But these people have taken off their coats. They have all checked their coats. There is a coat check area outside this door.

All those men just snapped off their coats. So these are the clothes worn underneath. Come in, this is me, well, yes. Okay. Move over again. This is the table inside the party hall. All the people waiving their rights are Black. 100% Black people are standing here, like this. They are standing, and we are sitting in chairs. This is Sim Hong-seok, the Chairman of the U.S. Republican Party. Sim Hong-seok, the Republican Party Chairman. He is a friend of President Bush. He is the Chairman, and he is also the Campaign Chairman for President Bush. This person is also the Campaign Chairman for U.S. President Bush. This man is about 1.85 meters tall. You know the photo taken when he stood with me? Push him aside again. Okay, this is inside the party hall.

There are statues of women standing there. The height is incredible. It’s all marble. You can’t see the roof, can you? Look here, there are layers like this. Let’s go up. People are gathered here now. You can’t take pictures with any camera other than this one. Only this camera can capture this. This is the largest one in America; this is inside the party hall, and this is the symbol of the U.S. President. This is exactly the party hall in the photo. It’s displayed there. You see the reception desk. America, America. Look down here. There’s a flag. The flag. The lights are on above it, too. It goes up layer by layer. Anyway, once you go inside, it’s a huge party hall with a ceiling like that. There are 300 people inside. If you look at this marble, it’s magnificent. These are people. People are standing right here.

If you look closely, they aren’t pillars. They are all sculptures. So, it is a massive party venue. You absolutely cannot take pictures here except for the main camera. The 300 most powerful people in the world have entered here. Hundreds of thousands attend inaugurations. But here, only the 300 people selected by the President are allowed in. Two people from our country. Move that out again. Now, the photo taken with Park Geun-hye in the U.S. This isn’t my wife; it is the wife of the Speaker we saw earlier. She is tall, isn’t she? She is his wife. Bush is here. This is where Bush is standing. So, it is right in front of him.

Next, Vice President Bush is giving a speech right now, isn’t he? We are right here. He is giving a speech here, isn’t he? Bush. Next, this is the Vice President and his wife. This is Mrs. Bush. This is Mrs. Bush. So, they are all standing here with Bush’s son. They are standing. So, on that day, Bush was at a party to celebrate his election, and 300 people from all over the world gathered in this huge venue, and they were all blonde. Almost everyone had blonde hair, while we have black hair. There are a lot of blondes here too, aren’t there? Bush is giving a speech right now, isn’t he? And I am sitting down here. I have to flip through the photos quickly because there is no time. This was before Park Geun-hye became President. She is sitting. This is the Korea Racing Authority. I am sitting here, aren’t I?

Can you really sit here faking it? Ah, well, not everything they are saying is true. A divine being should be sitting here naturally. These are bodyguards. See these bodyguards? Is this a table just anyone can sit at? It’s not a table just anyone can sit at, yet they are sitting here. This is the seat of the Chairman of the Korea Racing Authority. I see myself here. I didn’t wear this flower either, did I? It is my flower. Here, before I go over and meet this person for the first time, I shake hands, don’t I? We are shaking hands here, aren’t we? But this Chairman of the Korea Racing Authority is a former National Assembly member. This was when Kim Young-sam was President. At a racing event. When a person arrives, this bodyguard instinctively covers Park Geun-hye with their hand. They do that instinctively. And they seated her right here, in this seat.

These people seated me, didn’t they? Do you think I sit here on purpose? I sit because they seated me. This is my seat. You saw the photo from a moment ago. Show me the photo again of us shaking hands when I arrived. It shows that I have arrived. Are you smiling here, or not? Is this a fake smile? Is this a smile meant to be offensive or a genuine one? Or is it a very offensive smile? If I were in a bad mood, I wouldn’t even extend my hand or shake hands. Isn’t that right? Smile brightly. Did you get everything right? This person and this person greeted each other, and I sat here because they told me to. There are a lot of misunderstandings, aren’t there? There are some strange misunderstandings. You can see how different people’s words are. Now, you’re sitting here and talking again.

This is the United States. This is a photo taken when I went to the U.S. to meet Bush, but President Park Geun-hye wasn’t invited to Bush’s party. It seems no one but me is allowed there. When President Park Geun-hye visited, eight lawmakers came. Those people couldn’t see the President at the party. My party was a patent party, while theirs was labeled as ABC. Trump and Bush couldn’t attend that ABC party because they were busy. So, we couldn’t meet. However, the Maryland Democratic Party broadcasting station invited us. But Park Geun-hye is sitting next to me, isn’t she? Then is this fake? It’s not fake. This is Washington. The date is right here. January 21, 2001, correct? Put the photo away again. Put it up again. Everyone is watching this from below.

These are photos you are all looking at. See the two of them sitting? Are they faking it? When was this? October 8, 1999. This is a place where no one is around. It’s indoors, indoors. Are they sitting comfortably on the sofa or not? I was wearing a black tie back then. Look, they are sitting at the National Cemetery with Park Geun-hye. They are sitting just like this. Uh, uh? No, it’s not just a matter of going around. There are plenty of photos taken in Washington, D.C., besides that one. Show me more photos from Washington. This is the Park Geun-hye Presidential Photo Exhibition. It’s at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts. This one doesn’t have a date on it. This is Washington. See the two of them standing? Is this a fake photo? They are standing. Uh, look, look, they posed in front of a bouquet of flowers for the reporters. Did they just happen to go there by chance and take a picture like this? No. They are standing there.

Look again later. Huh? Oh right, they say I never actually went to the U.S. back then. They claim I went to meet Bush, but these photos are fake. If I were fake, should I post them now? So the haters would just go, “Oh, that worked out well.” But these are real photos. I went to meet Bush, and I was invited to various places in Washington. It wasn’t taken right there on the spot. It’s a photo taken after I went there at the invitation of Korean expatriates. Can you really take something like that by chance? I won’t say any more. Because they say it’s all lies. Is the photo of me meeting Bush, or the one taken with Trump this time, fake? They are all real. Hey, upload the photo of Trump. I feel so, so wronged.

Why are you framing someone like that? Hey, hurry up and find that rural volunteer group. Look at Trump smiling like this. Trump never smiles that hard. Zoom in on Trump’s photo. He smiled a lot, didn’t he? He smiled so hard you could see his molars. The reason he smiled is because the tie is the same color, the suit is the same, and the height is exactly the same. People are holding their bellies because they say he grew taller. Zoom it out. Zoom it out. When this photo was taken, Mr. Im Cheong-geun is standing next to him. It’s real. Mr. Im Cheong-geun is there, and this is his shoulder. There is a shoulder. Move it aside and look at the photo where Im Cheong-geun is. It’s right here. Mr. Im Cheong-geun’s shoulder comes out like this. There is our photo within our photo. Mr. Im Cheong-geun tortured six U.S. presidents. Look at the photos taken while Mr. Im Cheong-geun was torturing U.S. presidents. It appears in that manifesto, doesn’t it? Take it out. Is this fake? Ah, I’m saying this is fake. Back then, the broadcasting station did it, and did that even make sense?

Okay, Mr. Im Cheong-geun is Donald Nixon, the younger brother of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Next, let’s pause again. Look up. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, Mr. Im Cheong-geun. Look up again. This is Mr. Im Cheong-geun. That Trump, that Bush, President George H.W. Bush’s younger brother, Mr. Im Cheong-geun. This family photo was taken at a golf course. Is this just an ordinary photo? I mean, look at the three U.S. presidents. Did Mr. Im Cheong-geun put his hand on President Bush’s shoulder here or not? This man goes to U.S. presidents’ homes and eats meals with them as if he were meeting friends. Mr. Im Cheong-geun is at Reagan’s house here. He came to Reagan’s house. He is standing next to Nancy when she was young, isn’t he? And Reagan and Bush… another U.S. President… no, this is a photo taken. A photo taken with Bush. No, next, this is the Vice President. You know the U.S. presidential candidate. What is this person’s name? He’s a famous presidential candidate, isn’t he? This person, this person, this person’s wife. Let’s pause again. Mr. Im Cheong-geun and this person, Cory Gardner.

Okay, this is President Ford. Mr. Im Cheong-geun, are you here or not? Who is this President Ford? It’s President Ford. A photo taken with Ford. This person is just with all the presidents like family. Look at this again. This is a photo taken with Reagan. With Nancy when she was young. Actually, as a Korean, she is the only person to have served as an advisor to six U.S. presidents. She took me along, saying, “Let’s go meet Bush, let’s go meet Trump.” Is that fake? This is President Ford. Oh, President Bush. She took a lot of photos with Bush, didn’t she? President Bush. This is her private home. It was taken at home. I mean, it’s not the Oval Office. A photo with Bush. She’s quite short, isn’t she? This is a photo taken with her father when she was young. With her father. Father Bush. And this… who is this? This is President Bush’s First Lady. A photo taken with President Bush’s wife. It’s First Lady Barbara, the wife of President George Herbert Bush. Look at the next one. Ah, a photo of Senator McCain.

About my rural volunteer work. Right, I gave them this one photo and one with just the two of us. But this person is standing here on purpose as a witness when they come in. Just in case they claim they didn’t take a picture again. But if you look at our photo, their shoulder is clearly visible. I’m telling you, if you look at our photo, there is a shoulder on one side.

To make Huh Kyung-young the 17th President, Korea’s largest youth organization of one million is mobilizing. Isn’t this Huhsamo, the group that loves Huh Kyung-young? The true nature of the leadership of the Huh Youth Alliance, the Huh Kyung-young Ideology Union. Who is this? Isn’t this actor Park Kyu-sik from back then? It’s Park Kyu-sik, the chairman of Huhsamo. Move the next one aside. If you look here, you can see a long list of text. The youth organization is right here. His sudden withdrawal from the 16th presidential election caused his one million youth members to shift heavily toward President Roh Moo-hyun, leading to the Grand National Party’s crushing defeat by a margin of 1.5%. Articles are coming out saying that his sudden departure was a conspiracy between Huh and Roh for the 2007 presidential election, or a long-term strategic move, because “I was close with Roh Moo-hyun.” Isn’t that how it happened?

“Huh Cheong-ryeon, look down here. We obtained evidence that there was a full-scale attempt to persuade the party chairman to abandon his presidential bid and recruit him to their side in order to win the election, and we have published it in the newspaper. Huh Cheong-ryeon is the Huh Kyung-young Youth Alliance. It is the Rural Volunteer Corps. During the 2002 presidential election, it was a youth and student organization several times larger than Roh Moo-hyun’s Supporters’ Association (Nosamo). It is the oldest self-sustaining organization in the country, and it is the largest in scale. Membership is so strict that you have to wait at least a year to become a member. University students have to wait a year to join my organization. So, the kids hate it, but it is difficult to get in. It is said that you had to wait about a year for membership approval. Consequently, there were as many as 82 PhDs from KAIST—look. There are 82 KAIST PhDs in my organization.—and a significant number of venture company CEOs were included, so it can be seen that the organization is well-balanced in both quantity and quality.” As the organization grew so powerful, attempts to persuade him began to come in from all directions in earnest.

They started coming in. Yeo Myeong, the National Chairman of Heocheongnyeon, was the National Chairman. “That National Chairman is Yeo Myeong. It is my organization. I am the highest rank, and the Chairman was a Seoul National University graduate and the CEO of a promising venture company at the time—wasn’t that impressive?” However, the attempts at persuasion from various places were so severe that he traveled with more than five jeeps and bodyguards whenever he made a single move, and he was engrossed in checking members’ emails and reviewing membership qualifications until 3 AM. It is also said that one month before the 2002 presidential election, Chairman Yeo and about 10 Heocheongnyeon executives were kidnapped for a week by puppet terrorist forces before being released. From then on, Heocheongnyeon became even more united under Chairman Yeo, and universities and Youth Federation organizations nationwide began to expand membership by relaxing the conditions for Heocheongnyeon membership. I told them to relax them back then.

Around the time of the 2002 presidential election, forces backed by ruling and opposition parties continuously attempted to win over the Heocheongnyeon organization—which supported Democratic Republican Party President Huh Kyung-young—by offering massive financial incentives. They did so with money, didn’t they? The New Millennium Democratic Party and a group called the Alliance for Independent Innovation persistently desired a merger with Heocheongnyeon and blatantly offered favorable terms. Heocheongnyeon became a national sensation as the number of students wishing to join surged at universities across the country, and as membership conditions became stricter, causing delays of up to a year. “Heocheongnyeon” stands for the Huh Kyung-young Ideology Youth Alliance. How many organizations do you think there were? University students have to wait a year to join. And I ran that organization.

That is the rural volunteer corps. As the Huh Cheong-ryeon (Huh Kyung-young Thought Youth Alliance) expanded into a nationwide organization, it was rural volunteer work in each region at the time. It is known as a group that engages solely in volunteer work, without revealing its true nature to the media while dedicating itself to rural volunteer activities. Did I do that or not? I organized it by selecting only famous university students from across the country. There are an enormous number of them. This organization is the subject of the article published in this newspaper. If you read the contents of the email made public here, which was sent by the New Millennium Democratic Party to Huh Cheong-ryeon at the time, you can more than guess the situation. Now, regarding the email, the organization of over one million youths following Huh Kyung-young began to be swayed by the ruling and opposition parties, as well as from all sides. Furthermore, ahead of the 2002 presidential election, Huh Sa-mo was formed by popular actor Park Kyu-sik, who created a group that loves Huh Kyung-young, and it is spreading nationwide.

We are publishing some emails in this print edition that demonstrate the expansion of groups such as Heosamo, Heocheongryeon, Huh Wimo, the Group for Huh Kyung-young, the Huh Kyung-young Fan Club, the Patriotic Youth Corps, and the National Salvation Vanguard into massive organizations totaling over one million members. Notice regarding participation in the Anti-Nuclear, Anti-Kim Jong-il National Rally for Free Unification. Name: Public Relations Bureau, Huh Kyung-young Ideological Youth Alliance. It appears. Okay. Views: 35,231. Heocheongryeon. The Standing Committee of Heocheongryeon has resolved to enthusiastically participate in the Anti-Nuclear, Anti-Kim Jong-il National Rally to be held on March 1st. Under the banner of Heocheongryeon, a passionate vanguard will vigorously and proactively participate in the March 1st National Rally, which is expected to be attended by over one million people. On the day of the rally, three types of educational materials—including the Heocheongryeon Declaration of National Salvation, the Path of Patriotism, and For a Prosperous Fatherland—will be distributed to the general public. Right, it appears, doesn’t it? So, anyway, my organization ranks high domestically. Ranking high.

Also, the Public Information Bureau of Heocheongnyeon. I am Kang Cheol, the Director of the Public Information Bureau of Heocheongnyeon, a loyal guard organization dedicated to love of the nation and people that defends with our lives the beloved President Huh Kyung-young, the architect of the Asian Federation and a great ideological philosopher, and the Democratic Republican Party, the mother party of the fatherland. That is the official document being sent out to university students nationwide. As a powerful youth organization bearing the President’s name, we are working vigorously under the leadership of Standing Committee Chairman Comrade Yeo Myeong to fight steadfastly, with all members united in one mind, to become an invincible patriotic force thoroughly armed with the ideology of the great President, the guiding star of our nation. I’m telling you, I mobilized the most fearsome youth organization in our country. That is why I ran for president.

Therefore, the message provided by the Democratic Republican Party this time is an infinite honor for our organization and holds momentous significance in weaving together a solid organization and striving even more resolutely as a rank of boundless loyalty. The Comrade of Independent Innovation belonging to our Security Bureau, who recently posted a letter raising issues without permission to the Democratic Republican Party, will grow into a more devoted member of the Heocheongnyeon through a separate education course under the responsibility of Security Bureau Director Comrade Hyunmu. Comrade Yeomyeong, the Standing Committee Chairman, has personally issued instructions to all members to launch an all-out offensive in the struggle against slander; this signifies that in the brilliant path of loving the nation and the people, only His Excellency President Park Chung-hee, the eternal national leader, and the great President Huh Kyung-young, who fully inherits and develops his ideology and philosophy, receive the utmost reverence as the dignified national leader and possess the most absolute authority. These kids, you know, are just completely… University students have a somewhat peculiar way of speaking.

The path pursued by the Huh Kyung-young Ideology Youth Alliance—shortened to Heocheongnyeon—is a glorious path in which all our youth grow strong into a loyal ranks of youth who endlessly worship and follow only the great President Huh Kyung-young. It will also be a proud path that fully demonstrates its power as a special detachment, a reserve combat unit of Leader Huh Kyung-young, in the ceaseless advance to uphold and glorify Korean-style democracy. I’m telling you, this is an incredible piece of writing. These guys keep sending thousands of these emails. All of these emails are going to the kids.

This, this is the inside story of the birth of the Huh Kyung-young Ideology Youth Alliance (Heocheongnyeon). It appears. As someone who was once a member of the Patriotic Youth Corps during my college days in the mid-1990s, I cannot hide my unique feelings as I observe the recent discussions regarding the merger between Heocheongnyeon and the Revolution for Independent Innovation. I intend to help you understand by revealing the inside story of Heocheongnyeon’s birth through the Hanbo, which I am familiar with; therefore, I earnestly request that the administrator not delete this post. It started in 1985 with about 20 students from Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Ewha Womans University, Korea University, and Sogang University. It began with only the brightest minds. The Patriotic Youth Corps, which was launched with a pure heart yearning for the prosperity and development of the motherland, overcame various ideological divergences and finally came to enshrine President Park Chung-hee, the great hero of national history, in its hearts. Afterwards, in 2000, having continued as a small organization for 16 years, we felt the need to expand the organization and began to seek a more concrete guiding ideology.

While searching for a living figure to inherit and develop the great ideology and philosophy of President Park Chung-hee, we recognized the Democratic Republican Party and President Huh Kyung-young in late 2001, and finally decided to rename the Huh Kyung-young Ideology Youth Alliance. So, it was established by a coalition of several universities forming a purely university student organization. It rapidly increased, and it was decided to rename it the Heo Youth Alliance. Furthermore, Chairman Yeomyeong’s Heo Youth Alliance expanded to universities nationwide and local organizations, and the number of members—including Heo Sa-mo, Heo Wi-mo, the Patriotic Youth Corps, and the National Salvation Vanguard—surged to over one million. Membership was so strict that one had to wait a year to join, and the Heo Youth Alliance operated as a decentralized network, carrying out volunteer activities in rural and fishing villages across the country. It can be seen as a volunteer organization working to ensure Huh Kyung-young’s election, while also possessing a political intent to make him the President of Korea’s unification.

So, right now, I was running as the President, but now I am engaging in religious activities. If I issue a single word, university students nationwide mobilize. There were those organizations. Just the PhDs from KAIST alone—there were 80-something. Maybe around 100? They are all tremendous intellectuals. While those people were doing Huh Kyung-young, the President and the media kept portraying me as a lunatic, saying things like, “He gave birth to a crazy child, so give him some money,” and “What a lunatic.” But are my words right or wrong? These people are speaking my words. Other political parties, both ruling and opposition, keep trying to bring down Huh Kyung-young and the Heo Youth Alliance. This is what is coming out.

These photos, besides this one. Look at this… What is this Heocheongnyeon? It is an email serving as evidence of the political establishment’s attempts at appeasement to dismantle it. They are sending out emails like this indiscriminately to dismantle Heocheongnyeon. They claim that we can only rescue a free Korea, which is in a perilous crisis, through the grand unity of patriotic right-wing forces. The so-called “red forces” professing progressivism have occupied even the front yard of the Blue House, and groups calling themselves democrats are openly praising Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. True patriotic forces must now cast off their silence and launch a decisive battle to eradicate the traitorous sycophants with a cry for national salvation. At such a time, the Patriotic Youth Corps and Heocheongnyeon, engaging in passionate activities, are truly treasures of the motherland and sacred swords of national salvation. Furthermore, their high praise and desire to follow the late President Park Chung-hee’s achievements in national modernization and the Saemaul Movement are highly commendable and will mark a major turning point that will leave a significant mark on the history of the Korean youth movement. Young students, who were once steeped in negativity and rebellion, are now achieving a major paradigm shift toward positivity and leadership. It is because they sympathize with the noble intentions of the Patriotic Youth Corps and the Heocheongnyeon that many are acting with such fervent enthusiasm.

However, amidst a history and tradition spanning nearly 20 years, there is a shameful blemish: the right-wing error of the leader of the Heo Youth Alliance, known as Yeomyeong. Now, the collapse is happening here. I eventually shut this down. The fact that I shut down this Heo Youth Alliance is what keeps butchering it from within, both the ruling and opposition parties. He forced unconditional support for the correct path of highlighting President Park Chung-hee’s noble life, while becoming engrossed in the political slogan of “the second President Park Chung-hee” without careful vetting of President Huh Kyung-young. Furthermore, he made it feel as if it were President Huh Kyung-young’s personal ideology by renaming the proud organization the “Huh Kyung-young Ideology Youth Alliance.” Such mistakes and errors plunged the entire ranks into confusion, and when it was revealed that President Huh Kyung-young could not even run for president, the result was that the entire organization was tainted with serious skepticism.

I was unable to run for office at that time. There were many problems back then. It is a time when I could not do so. Therefore, the impeachment of Yeomyeong is a natural conclusion. I am impeaching the Yeomyeong whom I was leading. Impeachment is a natural conclusion. That is why strange forces are emerging from within. It is a natural conclusion and is evaluated as having laid the groundwork for correcting the wrong course. Comrade Kang Hyeok, who is leading the organization as the new leader, and the leadership must not repeat the errors of the previous leadership and must demonstrate a commitment to innovation as soon as possible. The League for Independent Innovation is willing to provide everything. They are launching a massive offensive. Is the League for Independent Innovation a major political party? They created the League for Independent Innovation there to lure in our members. They say the Revolution for Independent Innovation is willing to provide everything, don’t they? This is the proper treatment for the elite organization dedicated to national salvation and is an expression of our sincere desire for it to grow and develop further to steadfastly defend and protect the motherland. Therefore, I propose the following revisions.

In the merger of the two organizations, the names shall be the Free Korea Youth Front (abbreviated as Daehan Cheongjeon), the Patriotic Youth Corps (abbreviated as Aecheong), and the National Salvation Youth Front. Respecting the opinion of Chairman Kang Hyeok, former leaders including Yeo Myeong shall be pardoned and shall not be assigned any positions for the next three years. Members of the League for Independence and Innovation shall serve with a 100% attitude of self-sacrifice and receive the leadership of Chairman Kang Hyeok. All rights, including funds and buildings, of the League for Independence and Innovation’s leadership, branches, and subordinate organizations shall be immediately transferred, and all necessary expenses for the next five years shall be fully borne. The conditions previously presented remain valid. I am presenting these conditions to our members, aren’t I? I am presenting them while coming forward strongly. You understand what I mean. I did not leave this organization of one million members because I supported the 16th President Roh Moo-hyun. That is why factional infighting has arisen here—because I supported the left wing.

That is why I stopped my rural volunteer activities with this organization. I did this for a long time, even late into the night. Until 2003. So, this political organization of mine encompassed every university in the country, and it included the nation’s top intellectuals—over 100 PhDs from KAIST alone—isn’t that amazing? Remember that it was that kind of organization. Put it aside. Put it aside. Look here. The activities of the Heocheongnyeon are a subject of great interest not only to the Democratic Party but also to existing political parties. This is because they stand out for their self-sustaining nature, strong discipline, and unified action. However, no matter how good your intentions and ability to act may be, there are limits. That is because there is no institution or political party to support you. Members of Heocheongnyeon, please let your lofty aspirations blossom fully within the New Millennium Democratic Party. I earnestly appeal to you to join the party. Please join.

When you joined the party, if you identified yourself as a member of the Heocheongnyeon merchant group and informed them of your department, the New Millennium Democratic Party would spare no party-wide support, both materially and spiritually, so that you could fully realize your noble love for the country. That is why I stopped. Look. Heocheongnyeon members, the New Millennium Democratic Party members wrote about true patriotism in the Democratic Party, didn’t they? With that, eventually, as I supported Roh Moo-hyun, these people were absorbed into the New Millennium Democratic Party. So I stopped. It was a tremendous rural service organization. Now, try deleting it. There is no time left. Delete this too, delete it quickly, and go to the original screen below. So, I did rural service. While serving as the President of the Korea Rural Service Association, I led Heocheongnyeon. All the university students served in rural areas nationwide.

Whose idea was it? My idea. So, it’s not like I only did umbrella volunteering. I mean, I did rural volunteer work for the longest time. While doing umbrella volunteering, I ran for president—what was that thing called? While doing free meals, I also led the Youth Alliance for Democracy, didn’t I? I dragged that out until the year 2000-something. A single powerful word from me would move a million people nationwide. There were times like that. That is why I have walked such a rough path. You can’t even describe it. The opposing party was always just trying to dismantle us. But I led them through it. I am powerful.

What I mean is, they are the kind of people who follow my lead when I do things this way, but then a massive offensive came. And suddenly, I started supporting President Roh Moo-hyun. I didn’t run for office. That is why a problem arose. Internal conflict broke out. So, what I did the most was rural volunteer work. I did the most volunteer work for the Korean Rural Community. Next was the Umbrella Volunteer Service. As the President of the Korea Volunteer Service for the Needy. Is there no record of that? Is there no commendation I received from the Korea Volunteer Service for the Needy? Look it up. That is what I mainly did.

Then a divine being became president. So, I’ve been providing free meals for 54 years. It’s the 55th year now.

55 Years of Free Meals,
Umbrella Service, Rural Service

The umbrella service and rural volunteering—I did this for an incredibly long time. Up until the year 2000-something. I mean, I did it across the entire country. It wasn’t just taking a few people; my supporters—university students from all over the nation—went to rural areas and worked during the busy farming season. I did that for a long time. While doing that kind of volunteering, what else did I do? Free meals. Huh Kyung-young is the best at volunteering. Running for president three times isn’t volunteering. That was for the sake of the nation; I was trying to help the country politically in earnest, and my organization was just as large as any ruling or opposition party. You see?

But in the end, faced with the overwhelming pressure, I postponed it due to my connection with Roh Moo-hyun, and things proceeded that way. Also, I like both Roh Moo-hyun and President Park, and I like both the ruling and opposition parties. So, right now, I don’t take sides with either the ruling or opposition party. That is why I joined the People’s Party later on. Before doing this, I joined the People’s Party and intervened in Lee Jae-oh’s founding of the People’s Party, didn’t I?

People’s Party Lee Jae-oh, Je Jeong-gu, Lee Woo-jae, Jang Gi-pyo, Kim Boo-kyum

Lee Jae-oh, Je Jeong-gu, Je Jeong-gu, Lee Woo-jae, Jang Ki-pyo. Jang Ki-pyo called me until he left recently. He calls me often. He is my closest friend. Jang Ki-pyo, who graduated from Seoul National University’s Department of Philosophy, is from the same hometown as Roh Moo-hyun. President Roh Moo-hyun. So, Lee Jae-oh, Je Jeong-gu, Lee Woo-jae, Jang Ki-pyo, and the one person who served as Prime Minister—who is Kim? Kim Boo-kyum. Kim Boo-kyum joined the People’s Party later than I did. He joined under me while I was there. So, I started with these people and Huh Kyung-young. Lee Jae-oh and Huh Kyung-young started together. The only person who didn’t become a National Assembly member is Jang Ki-pyo. They are all accomplished people. For these people, the People’s Party was similar to a fresh, rural service organization. That is why many of my followers joined the People’s Party.

So, the Minjung Party was later dissolved. After dissolution, these people all went to the New Korea Party. I founded the Republican Party and ran for president under the Republican Party banner, while Lee Jae-oh and others went to the Minjung Party, the People Power Party, and the New Korea Party. Jang Ki-pyo didn’t go, but Kim Boo-kyum went somewhere else, and so on. These people are the first generation of political reformers in our country. So, I have extensive experience with organizations. The current organization has spread across the globe just as much as it did back then, hasn’t it? However, the point is that the Youth League was truly remarkable. That is why I participated in the rural volunteer movement, since I am from the countryside.

We went to rural areas without accepting any payment, bringing packed lunches to help with the fields. We absolutely made sure that no one ever came to the village and demanded food. Each person packed a lunch, went to the countryside, and returned the same day they volunteered. Then, they would go back down the next day. We volunteered a lot like that, didn’t we? That is why there was so much rural volunteering among university students. That was all done by the Youth Federation. There were quite a lot of them. The story goes that the supreme leader there was a “Divine Being.” So, people misunderstood this “Divine Being”—he is not the kind of person the police are currently talking about. This “Divine Being” had been distributing umbrellas, providing free meals, and volunteering in rural areas since childhood. Because of these activities, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Justice came to me saying, “Oh, please help us.”

So, when the Sri Lankan monk Chattanatha visited the Jogye Order in Yeouido, where a million Buddhist believers had gathered, they had me stand on the podium. Hey, I was young back then, you know? And while the General Secretary Onogon was holding the event, I looked at it and saw me standing right here on the 13th floor of the Hankook Ilbo building. This was an impossible situation. If you look here, this is the Lantern Festival for the 2527th Buddha’s Birthday. I was standing right there in Yeouido, holding lanterns while everyone else was holding the ceremony, and I was standing on the center stage. Next to me stood the President of the Buddhist Lay Association, a professor at Dongguk University. I was standing there as the President of the Buddhist Service Association or something, standing in the front row with people like the Supreme Patriarch of Sri Lanka.

Next, look up this way. Oh No-gon, over there, over there. Here, over there, and over there—these are the youth groups and youth organizations. Now, let’s look here. This is Chief Administrator Oh No-gon. He also served as Chief Administrator. This is the Commander of the Military Chaplain Corps. The female president of the Buddhist Service Association—who did you say this was? Song Chun-hee, the Chief Deoksa. So, when I was with Song Chun-hee, I dressed well, didn’t I? I dressed well back then. The colors of the clothes are nice. Even I think the colors are the best among all the clothes I’ve worn. I was incredibly active. There is no one who has lived as busily as I have. Even I can see that.

Ah, as I stepped out like this, you know? Every college student, every school, the mountains and rivers shook. When I appeared, there were people lined up under me who would risk their lives, and over a hundred security guards and bodyguards followed me around. If the Chairman under me moved, five cars had to provide security. Because the organization was large, they used to kidnap people. I’m telling you, I operated an organization like that. But now, right now, I am revealing the original purpose for which I came to the Sky Palace. It’s too late today, so I can’t talk at length. What? It’s gotten quite late. But today is important, isn’t it? A person named Huh Kyung-young isn’t just sitting here doing nothing. He has engaged in tremendous activities.

So, volunteering with umbrellas or providing free meals is nothing. I did this for 55 years, but the organizations I’ve been involved in for rural volunteer work during that time numbered nearly a million people. I mean, those organizations were the ones that were mobilized. But what is it about me building the Sky Palace now? Oh, if they get jealous and try to tear this down, I just build something bigger. Back when I was 37, I said, “I’m going to run for president, so I need about 50 billion won.” And if I said that, the money would just appear. Then I ran three times. Every time I ran, I made the money. I created it and went. I made it myself this time too, didn’t I? That’s how I went.

But people went on and on about how I violated election laws and all that, yet looking back, I was absolutely not a lawbreaker. Everyone in our Youth Alliance for Democracy consisted of students from KAIST, Seoul National University, and Yonsei University. They used to call me the “Sun of the Nation” or something like that. They certainly saw something in me. It’s just that the other side dismantled it. It was a massive organization. But because we didn’t do anything dishonest, all the pure-hearted young people were united. It was fun. So, since I couldn’t show myself, I always had to go around in hiding; it was incredible back then.

When I appear, college students just faint. Why? Because it’s like some kind of secret organization. Huh Kyung-young is a legendary name. You all see me, but those people just faint when Huh Kyung-young shows up. Huh Kyung-young the student was considered an invisible figure. He was completely hidden away. You found my story interesting today, didn’t you? So, if you look at me when I was young, I dressed well, didn’t I? It’s just that the photos were taken poorly. Like Song Chun-hee next to me. Whenever a well-known person came along, I looked cool. If I was with weird people, the photos looked strange. But when a cool person came, my face changed. Isn’t that interesting? Today, I only told you Part 1.

You must not take the Divine Man too lightly. He has spent his entire life doing volunteer work since childhood, so you must be careful of people who try to frame him as a criminal by any means necessary, or who intend to use Huh Kyung-young to advance their own careers. Huh Kyung-young is not someone who falls for injustice so easily. No matter how they track him down, he will pursue civil damages against them. Civil damages will be filed against everyone who framed me. Even if I end up losing my home later, I will see it through to the end. I tell you to love your enemies, don’t I? But I am saying that I will pursue legal action against those who framed the Divine Man to the very end. That is the only way to ensure they never do it again.

Alright then, do something else now. It’s getting late. What do we have to do? Since it’s late today, we have to do it for at least one person. Hurry up with the free meals. It’s taking a long time to find them. Find them all from now on. Set everything up. We have to do Part 2 next time. Put it on top nicely. Flatten that. You have to flatten out the torn parts and stuff. Clean it up; it’s not trash. You have to put it on top in order. Which one goes first? Is that one over there first? What is that? Where is that? If it’s underneath, you have to put it underneath.

I ask for a big round of applause from everyone who wishes to correctly understand the divine being.

Thank you. Thank you.

I need to call them quickly. Or not? Ah, just that. It’s getting late today. Then what do you do? Here, Angel Level Radiance Full Armor