[3][4][5] Her father, Bo Hi Pak, is a senior leader in the Unification Church[2] and has been responsible for News World Communications (which published The Washington Times), CAUSA International, the Little Angels Children's Folk Ballet of Korea, and other church related organizations.
[7] She took courses in ballet at the Sun Hwa Arts School in Seoul, and subsequently received instruction at the Royal Ballet School in London and L'Academie de Dance Classique de Princess Grace of Monaco.
[6][11] She had been performing overseas with the Washington Ballet, but was called back to the United States in order to be spiritually married to Heung Jin Nim.
[13] She explained to The Evening Standard about marrying a deceased groom, "In Korean tradition, I've heard there are other cases of this kind of marriage.
[14] The Universal Ballet company of South Korea was founded to serve as a memorial to her husband.
[6] The dance company was initially started by Bo Hi Pak and ballerina Adrienne Dellas.
[15] Julia Moon's father served as president of Universal Ballet as of 2000; he was also chairman of the Korean Cultural Foundation.
[15] In December 1989, Julia Moon made her debut with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad in a performance of Giselle.
[16][17] To promote the performance, Sun Myung Moon took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times.
[21] In a 1993 interview with Tulsa World, Julia Moon said of the art of ballet, "It's really a universal language.
"[7] In 1995, Julia Moon started her term as the general director of the Universal Ballet company.
"[23] In 2000, Julia Moon was interviewed by The Daily Telegraph on her thoughts about being the general director of Universal Ballet.
[2] She commented in 2000 to The Evening Standard about homosexuality in ballet, "It exists in Korea, but since we started 16 years ago we haven't had any gay dancers.
[25] Julia Moon commented to The Press-Enterprise on the selection of Shim Chung as the performance piece, "We thought that this would be a good ballet to bring with us on this tour.
It's mammoth, visually grand and one of the more exotic ballets in the repertory," explained Julia Moon.
[22] According to the Long Beach Press-Telegram, "[Julia Moon's] role as general director had been at times overshadowed by the strong presence and energy of the Rev.