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Article: S. Koreans gather for mourning after Roh's funeral ceremony
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 29, 2009
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S. Koreans gather for mourning after Roh's funeral ceremony
SEOUL, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans
filled the central Seoul Plaza in tribute to the former president
Roh Moo-hyun on Friday for a memorial rite held after the funeral
ceremony.
The memorial rite started at local time 13:23 (0423 GMT), some 20
minutes later than its original schedule, as the funeral ceremony
was prolonged, and ended in peace and order in around 30 minutes.
The rite was continued with an on-foot procession, followed by
hundreds of thousands of people behind, first to Seoul Station, and
then to Suwon, south of Seoul.
Roh's body will be cremated in Suwon as he explicitly had asked
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