A hearse carrying a coffin containing body of deceased former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun arrives for people's funeral to be held at the Gyeongbok-gung (palace) in Seoul May 29, 2009. Tearful South Koreans lined the country's streets on Friday for a glimpse of a hearse carrying the body of former President Roh Moo-hyun who leapt to his death from a cliff about a week after being snared in a corruption scandal. Reuters Pictures 5 months ago

A hearse carrying a coffin containing body of deceased former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun arrives for people's funeral to be held at the Gyeongbok-gung (palace) in Seoul May 29, 2009. Tearful South Koreans lined the country's streets on Friday for a glimpse of a hearse carrying the body of former President Roh Moo-hyun who leapt to his death from a cliff about a week after being snared in a corruption scandal.

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  1. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 18: Kwon Yang-Sook (L), the widow of the former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun, consoles Lee Hee-Ho, the widow of the former South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung at a hospital on August 18, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Former President Kim Dae-jung, a lifelong campaigner for democracy and inter-Korean peace, died at Seoul's Severance Hospital Tuesday after a long battle with pneumonia and related complications, hospital officials and aides said. He was 85.
  2. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 18: Kwon Yang-Sook (L), the widow of the former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun, consoles Lee Hee-Ho, the widow of the former South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung at a hospital on August 18, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Former President Kim Dae-jung, a lifelong campaigner for democracy and inter-Korean peace, died at Seoul's Severance Hospital Tuesday after a long battle with pneumonia and related complications, hospital officials and aides said. He was 85.
  3. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 18: Kwon Yang-Sook (R), the widow of the former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun, consoles Lee Hee-Ho, the widow of the former South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung at a hospital on August 18, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Former President Kim Dae-jung, a lifelong campaigner for democracy and inter-Korean peace, died at Seoul's Severance Hospital Tuesday after a long battle with pneumonia and related complications, hospital officials and aides said. He was 85.
  4. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 18: Kwon Yang-Sook (R), the widow of the former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun, consoles Lee Hee-Ho, the widow of the former South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung at a hospital on August 18, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. Former President Kim Dae-jung, a lifelong campaigner for democracy and inter-Korean peace, died at Seoul's Severance Hospital Tuesday after a long battle with pneumonia and related complications, hospital officials and aides said. He was 85.
  5. A man holds up a sign featuring a picture of the late President Kim Dae-jung (far R) and the late President Roh Moo-hyun at a memorial altar during the funeral for Kim in Seoul August 23, 2009. Kim, who was awarded the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the first summit between the leaders of the two Koreas that led to a dramatic warming of ties, died on August 18, 2009 at the age of 85.
  6. Kwon Yang-sook (L), the wife of deceased former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, comforts Lee Hee-ho, the wife of deceased former President Kim Dae-jung, in a memorial room for Kim at a hospital in Seoul August 18, 2009. Kim, a towering figure in South Korea's struggle for democracy who won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for seeking rapprochement with the communist North, died on Tuesday at the age of 85.
  7. Kwon Yang-sook (R), the wife of deceased former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, comforts Lee Hee-ho, the wife of deceased former President Kim Dae-jung, in a memorial room for Kim at a hospital in Seoul August 18, 2009. Kim, a towering figure in South Korea's struggle for democracy who won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for seeking rapprochement with the communist North, died on Tuesday at the age of 85.
  8. File - In this Dec. 23, 2002 file photo, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, left, shakes hands with President-elect Roh Moo-hyun during a meeting at the presidential palace in Seoul, South Korea. Kim Dae-jung, who as a longtime opposition leader survived assassination attempts and a death sentence to become president of South Korea, and whose unflagging efforts to reconcile with communist North Korea earned him the Nobel Peace Prize, died at a hospital in Seoul Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, hospital officials said. He was 85.
  9. FILE - In this May 29, 2009 file photo, former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung attends a funeral of former President Roh Moo-hyun in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea's Yonhap news agency says Kim died at a hospital in Seoul Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. He was 85.

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