Hundreds of separated family members from South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK) are soon to attend video reunions, South Korean Red Cross officials said Sunday.

The two-day video reunions, scheduled for Feb. 27-28, will be the third of the kind since last summer.

More than 500 people from 40 families from each side will "meet " their relatives living in the opposite side through video facilities.

The program will link Pyongyang and nine South Korean cities, South Korean officials said.

The two sides also agreed to hold new round of face-to-face reunions of separated family members on March 20-25.

Since 2000 when then South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and the DPRK top leader Kim Jong Il held first ever summit in Pyongyang, the two sides have held 12 rounds of reunions of separated family members.

Source: Xinhua