Hundreds of family members reunited

Seoul also dispatched around 30 medical staff to the venue to brace for any emergency cases among the participants.

The reunions are a follow-up on the agreement reached between Kim Jong-un, the DPRK top leader, and Moon Jae-in, the ROK president, during their first summit in April.

Wang Junsheng, an associate researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said inter-Korean relations have been improving in a dramatic way since this year's Winter Olympics, which the ROK hosted in March.