So are there many cases like that of Kim? Is the government keeping track of the number of separated families?<br /><br /> Right, Ji-yoon, there are so many cases.<br />But there were a lot more initially in 1988, when the South Korean government began registrations for the separated families.<br /> <br /> According to the unification ministry, as of April this year, among the almost one hundred-and-32-thousand people who had registered, fewer than half were still alive to meet their family members in the North. <br /> Among them, nearly 64 percent were over 80 years old; if we include those older than 70, that's a whopping 86 percent of the total. <br />
