Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon
Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon
Founder and Chairman
Global Peace Foundation
Latest Speeches
Dr. Hyun Jin Moon established the Global Peace Foundation (GPF) in 2009. Inspired by the vision that all people, regardless of race, nationality, religion, or culture are members of One Family Under God, the Global Peace Foundation is building a world-wide network of committed and innovative peace-builders, working in partnership based on common values, aspirations and principles.
With support of partners from government, business, religious, and nonprofit sectors, the Global Peace Foundation has initiated programs that serve as models of innovative approaches to persistent problems of social conflict and underdevelopment across the world. These programs operate in Southeast Asia, Africa, North and Latin America, Northeast Asia and recently Europe. They include leadership development and good governance programs, the Character and Creativity Initiative that trains teachers and administrators to better equip students with 21st-Century job skills, and holistic-community driven development models like the All-Lights Village Project. The Global Peace Foundation is also dedicated to empowering and engaging women and youth through the Global Peace Youth and Global Peace Women.
The Global Peace Foundation is just one of Dr. Hyun Jin Moon’s initiatives. He is actively engaged in a number of other charitable and educational projects like Service For Peace, which he established in 2001. With wide-ranging experience as a spiritual leader, social entrepreneur and philanthropist, Dr. Moon stresses the importance of spiritual principles, particularly personal responsibility and integrity of character, as essential elements of effective peace-building. These principles and values have guided Dr. Moon’s entrepreneurial endeavors, and as Chairman of the Global Peace Foundation, they guide him as he continues to move the organization forward.
Dr. Hyun Jin Moon is a graduate of Columbia University and the Harvard MBA program. Dr. Moon was born in Korea and now lives in the United States of America, which he considers his adopted home. He has traveled extensively throughout the world for his international peace work.
With a deep love of nature and the wilderness, he is an avid sportsman and accomplished horseman. He represented his country as a member of the Korean Equestrian Team in both the Seoul and Barcelona Olympics (1988 and 1992, respectively).
Dr. Moon and his wife, Jun Sook, are the proud parents of nine children.
Events
Korean Dream Hangang Festa 2025
The Korean Dream Hangang Festa is a vibrant public celebration marking Korea’s 80th National Liberation Day and honoring the vision of a free and unified Korea.
International Forum on One Korea 2025
The International Forum on One Korea, held August 14–15, 2025, in Seoul, will convene global leaders, experts, and civil society to build international support for a free and unified Korea. Marking the 80th National Liberation Day, the forum will explore people-centered strategies for reunification, peace, and sustainable development across the Korean Peninsula and beyond.
Korean Dream: Vision and Pathway towards a Free and Unified Korea
The International Forum on One Korea 2024, held from September 27-29, 2024, in Seoul, Korea, will gather global leaders, policymakers, and civil society to advance the vision of a free and unified Korea.
Global Peace Leadership Conference Africa 2024
Join the in-person or virtual Global Peace Leadership Conference (GPLC Africa 2024) for this year's conference theme on "One Family under God: Empowering African Renaissance as a Global Catalyst for Freedom, Peace, and Sustainable Development."
Global Peace Convention 2023
Addressing the theme “One Family under God: Vision for National Transformation and Civilization of Peace,” the Global Peace Convention 2023 will engage civil society and government leaders, peacebuilding practitioners, and development experts from around the world to advance values-based, collaborative approaches to global peace and security, environmental conservation, and sustainable and equitable development.
Korean Dream Festa for Korea United
October 3 marks Korea's National Foundation Day, a day commemorating the legendary founding of the Korean people. This year on October 3, 2023, a Korean Dream Festa gathered tens of thousands of Korean citizens and international supporters standing for a free and unified Korea. The festival is part of the 3-year build up toward 2025 and the Korean Dream 10 Million Campaign which will be held on the 85th Anniversary of Korea's Liberation Day.
Free and Unified Korea: A Catalyst for Regional and Global Peace and Development
This forum convenes prominent experts, policymakers, journalists, and civil society leaders from Korea and the international community to build stronger and broader international support for a free and unified Korea as the ultimate and permanent solution to the security and human rights crises, and a catalyst for regional and global peace and development.
Global Peace Leadership Conference Indo-Pacific 2023
India’s rich and varied spiritual heritage has profoundly influenced human civilization. Among the great treasures of the Indian tradition is Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, the maxim that the world is one family. It expresses a simple yet essential truth about our shared human identity that provides a compelling basis for global cooperation in resolving conflicts, building peace, and advancing the well-being of all. Given India’s unique heritage and key leadership role in the region and world, it offers a most fitting context to examine the civilizational implications of universal principles and their practical applications for peacebuilding. Thus, co-conveners and partners organized the Global Peace Leadership Conference Indo-Pacific (GPLC) in New Delhi, India on April 11-13, 2023, with the theme “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Vision for Advancing Human Consciousness and Peace.”
Global Peace Leadership Conference 2022
The Global Peace Leadership Conference is a three-day strategic, multi-sector convening of the Global Peace Foundation and our partners that addresses pressing regional challenges and works toward collaborative solutions within a framework of shared values and moral and innovative leadership. The GPLC provides a space for leaders and innovators from the government, the private sector, faith communities, and women and youth to develop effective and collaborative responses to the challenges of conflict and underdevelopment. A Global Peace Festival was held on Clark Grounds, Pampanga, Philippines on December 3.
International Forum on One Korea 2022
With the inauguration of Yoon Suk Yeol as the new President of South Korea, North Korea’s unprecedented series of ballistic missile tests with increasingly versatile systems, unexpected Ukraine War, intensifying US-China relations, ongoing COVID pandemic, and worldwide economic setbacks, the Korean peninsula is at a critical point of challenge and opportunity. This timely forum convenes prominent experts, policymakers, journalists, and civil society leaders from the Six-Party Talk countries and the broader international community to address comprehensively how to build international support for a free and unified Korea as the ultimate and permanent solution to the security threat and a catalyst for regional and global peace and development.
Congressional Roundtable and Forum on “U.S.-ROK Alliance for Free and Unified Korea”
With the election of conservative Yoon Suk Yeol as the next President of South Korea, North Korea’s reactivation of missile tests and potential nuclear tests, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and intensifying U.S.-China relations, the Korean Peninsula is at a critical point of challenges and opportunities. This timely forum convenes prominent experts and policymakers from the USA and Korea to comprehensively address strengthening the U.S.-ROK alliance for a free and unified Korea as the ultimate solution to the security crisis and a catalyst for regional peace and development.
Virtual Global Peace Convention 2021
We are pleased to announce that the Global Peace Convention (GPC) 2021 will examine the theme “Moral and Innovative Leadership in Peacebuilding for Our Changing World” through a dynamic series of programs from August 6-15 with a Global Peace Youth Forum as a pre-program event on July 31. Given the continuing limitations on international travel, GPC 2021 features an entirely virtual schedule, which opens the exciting opportunity for the robust participation of peacebuilding practitioners and civil society leaders from around the world. The Convention includes plenaries, forums, and roundtables sessions designed to foster discussion, address vital topics, and coordinate for action around some of the most critical issues facing our world today.