(VOVworld) - The second group of South Koreans, selected to participate in the reunion event with long-lost families from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), gathered in Sokcho city on Friday to prepare for the upcoming meeting on the weekend.
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| South Korean Suh Byung-gon, 82, is helped by a Red Cross official as he arrives to take part in family reunions with his North Korean family members at a hotel in Sokcho, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. (Photo: Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via AP) |
For the second round, which will run from Saturday to Monday at the DPRK's scenic resort of Mount Kumgang, a total of 255 South Koreans from 90 families are scheduled to meet 188 DPRK relatives.
The participants, mostly in their 80s and 90s, will receive medical check-ups and education on dos and don'ts in the DPRK territory.
Similar to the first stage, the elderly South Koreans will be given just 12 hours of face time with their DPRK relatives, who they have not seen since the Korean War ended with an armistice in 1953.
The 20th meeting was the outcome of an agreement between the two Koreas reached on August 25th.