SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Separated families in South Korea have had no exchanges with their relatives in North Korea either at government or civilian levels for more than a year amid frosty inter-Korean relations, government data showed Tuesday. Separately from government-arranged reunions, divided families in South Korea also seek help from brokers to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The unification ministry said Tuesday it will push to conduct DNA tests on descendants of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War in a bid to use their gene information for potential family reunions with their relatives in North Korea. The move comes as more aging separated family members [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 2,200 South Koreans died in the first eight months of this year without having a chance to reunite with their family members in North Korea after being separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, government data showed Thursday. A total of 2,226 people passed away in the January-August [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Approximately 16,000 elderly South Koreans are presumed to have died over the past five years while awaiting reunions with family members in North Korea who were separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, data showed Sunday. According to data from the unification ministry, around 3,400 to 3,700 people have died [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 3,600 South Koreans died last year without having a chance to reunite with their family members in North Korea after the 1950-53 Korean War-driven separation, government data showed Saturday. A total of 3,647 people died last year among around 134,000 applicants who had registered with the government [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six out of 10 South Koreans seeking reunions with family members split by the 1950-53 Korean War are aged 80 or older, government data showed Friday. The data demonstrates the urgency of offering them a chance to meet their families on the other side of the Demilitarized [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight out of 10 families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War have yet to confirm the fate of their parents and siblings in North Korea, a government survey showed Thursday. According to the unification ministry’s poll on 5,354 separated family members living in South Korea and abroad, 82 percent [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The unification ministry said Thursday it will spend 1.18 billion won (US$1.06 million) of inter-Korean cooperation funds to build more video conference centers for reunions of families separated since the 1950-53 Korean War. A civilian-government committee on inter-Korean exchanges approved the decision to construct additional video conference facilities in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean separated family members have produced more than 23,000 video messages to send to their long-lost relatives in North Korea over the past 15 years, but almost all of them have not been delivered, a government report showed Thursday. According to the unification ministry report recently submitted to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is working on a project to create virtual reality (VR) content to offer families, torn apart by the 1950-53 Korean War, virtual journeys back to their hometowns in North Korea, officials said Sunday. Commissioned by the unification ministry, the Korean Red Cross is carrying out the project [...]