GAPYEONG, South Korea (Sun, Feb 17) — About 3500 couples tied their wedding knots
Sunday in South Korea in the first mass wedding organized by the Unification
Church on Sunday - the first since the
death of their "messiah" and controversial church founder Sun Myung
Moon.
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| Unification Church's First Mass Wedding Since Sun Myung Moon's Death |
It was certainly an awesome event participated
by thousands of identically-dressed couples - many
of mixed nationality who had met just days before - taking part
in the ceremony in Gapyeong, north-east of the capital, Seoul.
The event was not only participated by
followers- often known as "Moonies" – inside South Korea; but more
than 24,000 members were also married in other countries via video link.
Sunday's event carried a
special resonance, with Moon's 70-year-old widow Hak Ja Han presiding for the
first time without her husband who died in September last year because of
complications from pneumonia. An estimated 30,000 people attended the
92-year-old's funeral.
The church's mass weddings
began in the early 1960s and originally involved just a few dozen couples. Over
the years they grew in size and attracted international media attention.
In 1997, some 30,000 couples were married in
Washington. and two years later around 21,000
filled the Olympic Stadium in Seoul.
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