SOUTH KOREA: UNIFICATION CHURCH STAGE HUGE MASS WEDDING.

Record ID: 990767

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: UNIFICATION CHURCH STAGE HUGE MASS WEDDING.
  • Date: 7th February 1999
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FEBRUARY 7, 1999)(REUTERS) 1. LV/PAN: COUPLES AT OLYMPIC MAIN STADIUM 0.19 2. GV: REPRESENTATIVES FROM VARIOUS KINDS OF RELIGION 0.26 3. GV/LV: COUPLES/ WIDE (2 SHOTS) 0.38 4. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) CHRIS CORCORAN, PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTOR OF FAMILY FEDERATION, SAYING: "Today we are here to celebrate the marriages of 40,000 couples from all over the world, who are assembled here in Olympic stadium to receive Reverend Moon and Mrs. Moon's blessing on their marriage. We are trying to create a global marriage culture." 0.58 6. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) BRIDEGROOM FROM HUNGARY: "Spiritually maybe and eternally, forever, This is going to be everlasting marriage." 1.08 7. MCU: COUPLE 1.14 8. LV/ZOOM IN: WIDE OF STAGE, REVEREND MOON AND HIS WIFE ENTERING 1.30 9. MV/ZOOM/GV: REV. MOON AND MRS. MOON SPRAYING HOLY WATER 1.49 10. GV: COUPLES SAYING "I DO" 1.54 11. MV/ZOOM OUT/LV: REV. MOON AND MRS. MOON PRAYING 2.18 12. LV: REV. MOON AND MRS. MOON ON ELECTRONIC BULLETIN, COUPLES 2.24 13. MV: REV. MOON DECLARING THE COUPLES MARRIED 2.31 14. SV: COUPLES EXCHANGING RINGS 2.40 15. LV/SV: WIDE OF STADIUM 2.52 16. GV/PAN: COUPLES CHEERING 3.11 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Reuters ID: LVA186369IUF07BPIP5AXO3PKUWU
  • Story Text:About 40,000 couples, some of whom had only just met,
    have braved South Korea's winter chill to exchange wedding
    vows on Sunday in what the Unification Church billed as the
    largest wedding ever.

    Over 36,000 couples from 193 countries got married
    under Reverend Moon and Mrs.Moon's blessing.

    "We are trying to create a global marriage culture,"
    said Chris Corcoran, Public Affairs Director of
    the Family Federation.

    Korean-born evangelist Sun Myung Moon and his wife
    blessed the couples at the stadium as 360 million
    others watching through satellite and internet link-up.

    Moon, wearing a white and gold crown and draped in a
    flowing gold-edged white gown, presided over the ceremony with
    his wife in a similar dress from the podium above the couples.

    A church spokesman said 12,000 couples were newly weds,
    who have only just met, joined by 28,000 others renewing their marriage.

    "This is going to be an everlasting marriage,
    spiritually and eternally forever," said a groom from Hungary.

    Moon, a South Korean, found the Unification Church in
    Seoul in 1954 with a theology loosely based on Christianity.

    His followers, often referred to disparagingly as
    "Moonies" say the church's goal is to build a
    kingdom of heaven on earth and inspire people to follow the
    ideology of self-sacrifice.

    The church performed its first mass wedding in 1961 with
    33 couples involved.
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