Their final hour for those families at Mount Kumgang was spent having lunch together.<br />Now it's back to reality.<br />Our Cha Sang-mi has some of the touching and tearful scenes from those last moments. <br /> “I cried every time I thought of saying goodbye to you.”<br /><br /> “If we live long and stay healthy, the time will come for us to meet again.”<br /> <br /><br /> “I wish. I wish we could see each other everyday.”<br /> . <br /><br /> Scenes of long-separated families finally reunited... but having to part ways again.<br />The older sister promises they'll meet again in the future, knowing they probably won't.<br />Another older sister comforts a younger one.<br /><br /> “We need to live long so we can see reunification.”<br /> <br /> “We've already lived too long.”<br /><br /> “These days they say you're young when you're 60. Ninety is the new 60."<br /><br /> The participants from South Korea arrived half an hour earlier at the meeting hall to wait for their relatives.<br />They say the three days they spent together -- despite being under strict control -- were amazing.<br /> The families also had a session for exchanging letters, where some grandchildren, nephews and nieces, wrote heartfelt letters for their grandparents, aunts and uncles, and vice versa.<br />The grandchildren had never seen their North Korean grandparents before, but they invited them to their homes in Seoul.<br /><br /> The venue for Sunday's farewell became a sea of tears, but it seemed they were happy deep down.<br /><br /> "Don't cry. Do you remember my face?<br /><br /> "Yes, not the upper part, but down here you look exactly the same."<br /><br /> Shim said the time had flown and she wanted to stop the clocks so they wouldn't have to say goodbye.<br /> Just after lunch, though, the 81 South Korean families, totaling 324 people, left Mt. Kumgang to go home.<br />Cha Sang-mi, Arirang News. <br />
