The second round of inter-Korean family reunions began on Saturday at the Mount Geumgang resort in North Korea. 

This time, among the participants, surviving family members of two South Koreans kidnapped by North Korea were able to meet.

88-year-old South Korean Lee Bok-soon was reunited with her 64-year-old son Chung Geon-mok for the first time in 43 years since he was abducted by North Korea while working on a boat.

Also 83-year-old South Korean Moon Hong-sim had applied to see her older brother Moon Hong-joo who was abducted by the North during the Korean War, but found out he had passed in 1996.

Moon instead was able to meet her brother's children.

Ahead of the family reunions, South Korea had requested the North to check on the status of 50 people who were either abducted or prisoners of war.

Among them, only the living status of Chung Geon-mok was confirmed, while the North said 18 of them passed away and the status of the remaining 31 people could not be checked.