Article: S. Koreans gather for mourning after Roh's funeral ceremony

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 for ...

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