Inter-Korean Separated Family Members Reunions End

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Inter-Korean Separated Family Members Reunions End

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A group of 472 South Korean separated family members bid farewell to 100 elderly relatives living in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) earlier Wednesday after a three-day reunion at Mount Geumgang in the DPRK.

The South Korean delegation said good-bye to their DPRK relatives and left the resort's Onjeonggak Rest House aboard threebuses, according to South Korean national news agency Yonhap News.

The South Korean old people took the cruise ship Seolbong from the DPRK port city of Jangjeon to come back to the South Korean northern port of Sokcho.

The seventh round of inter-Korean separated family reunions were held at the mountain from June 27 to July 2, during which 99 South Korean old people met their separated family members in the DPRK in the first three-day reunions and 472 South Korean separated family members hugged their DPRK relatives in the last three-day reunions.

A 73-year-old South Korean Kwak Ho-im was taken away by ambulance from the mountain to the south of inter-Korean border after she collapsed while meeting with his 76-year-old husband LeeKyu-tae who has lived in the DPRK since the end of the Korea War (1950-1953).

Seoul and Pyongyang are reportedly to plan a larger scale separated family members reunions around this September.

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