Mass wedding goes ahead in Korea despite coronavirus
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Six thousand couples decided not to let the coronavirus
deter them from celebrating their happy day. The multiple brides and grooms
attended a mass wedding ceremony in South Korea's Unification Church on Friday,
in spite of the health scare from the coronavirus in neighbouring China. The
couples jetted in from sixty countries around the world to attend their wedding.
The newlyweds were joined by 24,000 guests; some renewing their marriage vows
and others watching friends and family tie the knot. The church seemed well
prepared for such a large-scale event as staff handed out hand sanitizer and
surgical masks to all attendees. They also checked the temperature of the
couples.
The Unification Church is famous for holding the mass
weddings. It was founded in 1954 by self-declared messiah Sun Myung Moon. The
communal weddings started in 1961 and have seen hundreds of thousands of
couples walk down the aisle. In many cases, the bride and groom had been
matched and met for the first time at the ceremony. One newlywed spoke about
marrying amid the global spread of the coronavirus. He told the Reuters news
agency: "I'm very happy to attend this deeply blessed joint wedding. Since
coronavirus is going around these days, I wore a mask to be on the safe
side." A 23-year-old bride from Benin said: "I didn't put on a mask
because I wanted to be beautiful for my husband."
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