With more than 150 different booths installed and hundreds participating, Unification Expo 2016 was launched in the heart of Seoul on Friday, at Gwanghwamun Plaza.

Participants are from South Korea’s major North Korea research centers to universities and defector groups, and the event hosted by Ministry of Unification (MoU), the expo will last until this Sunday evening.

“Facing unprecedented threats from North Korea, inter-Korean relations are facing heavy difficulties,” Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo said during his opening speech of the expo.

“But we should never hold back our efforts to make the ‘miracle of Korean Peninsula’ possible, with our own hands.”

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