The remains of 64 South Korean soldiers killed during the Korean War were returned to their homeland on Monday,.. marking the nation's 70th Armed Forces Day.
President Moon attended the repatriation ceremony and paid respect to the fallen heroes.
Cha Sang-mi takes a closer look at that ceremony.
The remains of 64 South Korean troops killed in the Korean War returned to their homeland Monday morning.
The remains, which were found in North Korea, were brought back from Hawaii where they had been jointly identified by South Korea and the United States.
President Moon Jae-in solemnly burnt incense at the repatriation ceremony at Seoul Air Base, where the remains were honorably welcomed as they were taken off the special transportation aircraft.
The President also paid individual tribute before each basket of remains, and awarded them with Korean War medals.
He was joined by sixty other people for the repatriation ceremony, including Jeong Kyeong-doo, the nation's defense minister, Vincent Brooks, the commander of the United Nations Command, and a number of Korean War veterans.
The war remains were sent off with a rifle volley salute and moment of silence.
Then, escorted by the military police, they were then transported to the defense ministry's Agency for Killed In Action Recovery and Identification, to go through the identification process.
Once the bodies are identified, they will be sent to the bereaved families and laid in the national cemetery.
Previously, five sets of remains out of the 28 sets repatriated by the U.S. to South Korea between 2011 and July this year have been successfully identified and returned to their families.
Cha Sang-mi, Arirang News.