Anchor: Inter-Korean family reunions entered the second day in North Korea on Wednesday. A total of 96 families will continue spending time with their family members after emotional first reunions a day earlier. Following morning meetings, the families will break for lunch and reconvene in the afternoon.
Our Kim Bum-soo has their stories.
 
[Sound bite: audio clips from inter-Korean family reunions at Mt. Geumgang resort / Oct. 20, 2015]
Reunited brother and sister: "She is alive! Alive! My sister came! My sister came!" 
 
Some burst into tears. Others looked numb as their siblings appeared before their eyes for the first time in more than six decades.
 
[Sound bite:  Mr. Oh In-se (83) - reunion participant from North Korea]
"I am meeting you first time after I left home when I was 19. I always had you in mind."
[Sound bite Mr. Oh Jang-kyun - Mr. Oh In-se's son from South Korea]
"Thank you for living."
"I lived confidently knowing I have my father."
 
Eighty-three-year-old Mr. Oh In-se reunited with his wife and met his son for the first time. 
 
Mr. Oh told his wife that he always had her in mind. She was pregnant at the time of their separation. 
 
A total of 389 South Koreans met long-lost family members who they had to leave behind during the Korean War in the 1950s.
 
Elderly brothers and sisters delivered obituaries of their parents and other siblings.
 
[Sound bite: Mr. Kim Cheol-sik (81) - reunited with younger brother]
"This is Bok-nyu! (Is this Bok-nyu?) This is Bok-soon. Hee-ja passed away."
 
The reunion event entered the second day on Wednesday at Mount Geumgang, North Korea.
 
Participants are allowed to meet six times over three days for a total of 12 hours, after which they will once again become separated.
 
They are seeking to have the governments of the two Koreas’ hold regular cross-border reunions and allow letter exchanges.
 
Another group of 255 South Korean participants will depart for Mount Geumgang on Saturday for reunions of 90 separated families.
Kim Bum-soo, KBS World Radio News.