The WomenCrossDMZ International Peace Symposium took place Sunday in central Seoul, attended by the 30 women who made their way across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) from North to South Korea on Sunday.

The group was joined by other women from abroad and around South Korea to discuss the crossing, North Korea, and the role of women in peace making processes around the world.

Although the group’s original intention was to cross over the DMZ at the Panmunjom “Truce Village,” the feminists, activists and Nobel Peace Prize laureates in the end had to take a bus to a customs area at