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Tearful farewell after North-South family reunions
North Korean Ri Jong-Ryol (right), 90, cries with his South Korean son Lee Min-Gwan (left) as they bid farewell following their three-day separated family reunion meeting at Mount Kumgang resort.
Nov 1, 2010
SEOUL - MEMBERS of 97 Korean families separated by war six decades ago bade a final tearful farewell on Monday after a three-day reunion inside North Korea.
Elderly people touched their palms to those of family members on the other side of closed bus windows as they left Mount Kumgang, the South's Yonhap news agency reported from the east coast resort.
'I love you! I love you!' one South Korean woman shouted to a North Korean family member aboard a bus as it prepared to leave the reunion centre.
Cries of regret grew louder among some 430 South Korean family members as the buses pulled away, with some sitting on the ground and bursting into tears again, Yonhap reported.
Hundreds of thousands of Koreans were separated during the 1950-53 war, and the occasional reunions bring together only a fraction of those desperate for news of children, parents and brothers and sisters.
Since 2000, sporadic events have briefly reunited more than 17,000 people face-to-face and an estimated 3,700 - usually those too frail to travel - via video link. But some 80,000 people in the South alone are on the waiting list for reunions. Thousands die every year before getting their chance.
North Korean Ri Jong-Ryol (right), 90, cries with his South Korean son Lee Min-Gwan (left) as they bid farewell following their three-day separated family reunion meeting at Mount Kumgang resort.
Nov 1, 2010
SEOUL - MEMBERS of 97 Korean families separated by war six decades ago bade a final tearful farewell on Monday after a three-day reunion inside North Korea.
Elderly people touched their palms to those of family members on the other side of closed bus windows as they left Mount Kumgang, the South's Yonhap news agency reported from the east coast resort.
'I love you! I love you!' one South Korean woman shouted to a North Korean family member aboard a bus as it prepared to leave the reunion centre.
Cries of regret grew louder among some 430 South Korean family members as the buses pulled away, with some sitting on the ground and bursting into tears again, Yonhap reported.
Hundreds of thousands of Koreans were separated during the 1950-53 war, and the occasional reunions bring together only a fraction of those desperate for news of children, parents and brothers and sisters.
Since 2000, sporadic events have briefly reunited more than 17,000 people face-to-face and an estimated 3,700 - usually those too frail to travel - via video link. But some 80,000 people in the South alone are on the waiting list for reunions. Thousands die every year before getting their chance.
North Korean Kim Jin-Won (centre) cries with his South Korean relatives as they bid farewell following their three-day separated family reunion meeting at Mount Kumgang resort on the North's southeastern coast.
South Korean Kim Rae-Jung (left), 96, cries with her daughter Wu Jong-Hye (right), 71, as they bid farewell following their three-day separated family reunion meeting at Mount Kumgang resort.
North Korean Yoon Tae-Young (right) bids farewell to his South Korean younger brother Yoon Sang-In after inter-Korean temporary family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort.
South Korean Lee Min-Gwan (right), whose other South Korean name is Lee Myung-Gwan, bids farewell to his North Korean father Lee Jong-Ryol on a bus after their temporary family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort.
North Koreans (in the bus) wave to their South Korean relatives as they bid farewell following their three-day separated family reunion meeting at Mount Kumgang resort on the North's southeastern coast, near the border.
North Korean Woo Jeong-Hye (top right) bids farewell to her South Korean mother Kim Rye-Jeong after inter-Korean temporary family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort.
North Koreans (in the bus) grip hands of their South Korean relatives as they bid farewell following their three-day separated family reunion meeting at Mount Kumgang resort.
North Koreans (in the bus) wave to their South Korean relatives as they bid farewell following their three-day separated family reunion meeting at Mount Kumgang resort.
Source: The Straits Times/Reuters/AFP
*sobbing*
looking at the pictures make me sad....
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