Young Oon Kim (Korean: 김영운; 1914–1989) was a leading theologian of the Unification Church and its first missionary to the United States.
[1] Kim was a professor of religion at Ewha University in Seoul, South Korea.
After she joined the Unification Church, church founder Sun Myung Moon sent her to the United States as a missionary in January 1959.
She was also the first person to translate the Divine Principle, the basic textbook of Unification Church teaching, from Korean to English.
[3] From 1975 to 1988 she was a Professor of Systematic Theology at the Unification Theological Seminary in Barrytown, New York, and the first Unification Church member on the faculty there.