GAPYEONG: About 3,000 couples from 62 nations got married in South Korea on Saturday, in a mass wedding function led by the Unification Church established by the late Reverend Sun Myung Moon.
A further 12,000 couples overall took an interest in the function through the Internet, said Ryu Kyeung-seuk, president of the South Korean home office of the congregation.
Moon, who kicked the bucket in 2012 at 92 years old, had directed mass weddings since the mid 1960s.
His dowager, Hak Ja Han Moon, administered at Saturday's service, which was seen by around 22,000 church supporters and visitors accumulated at the congregation's CheongShim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, around 75 km (50 miles) upper east of Seoul.
The couples included 1,000 who were recently marry and around 2,000 who were at that point wedded and looking to re-commit their relational unions and families to God as they had hitched before joining the congregation.
"We've been locked in for more than one year now, for the most part been isolated, so obviously it's to a great degree great to be as one once more," said Hyo-joo Song, from Britain, who wedded his Japanese wife on Saturday.
"What's more, yes, we're glad to be hitched furthermore impart that experience to numerous other individuals."
Moon was a lightning bar for discussion and was once imprisoned in the United States for expense avoidance.
He likewise pronounced in 1992 that he and his wife were saviors.
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