Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan's Mourners

Pictured above, "[s]isters solemnly participate in the funeral mass of the late Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan at Myongdong Cathedral in downtown Seoul yesterday" — Sisters Shedding Tears.

"As countless mourners streamed into downtown Seoul, people had to wait for more than three hours in a line stretching up to two kilometers, but most looked just peaceful and happy" — 200,000 Endure Long Lines, Cold to See Late Cardinal.

"Kim won the respect of all Koreans in his illustrious life, and his death is seen as an impetus for all Koreans to unite," says this editoralist — Warm Hearts on a Freezing Day. "Such a sense of togetherness has not been felt in Korea since the country co-hosted the 2002 World Cup soccer finals."

"Mourners of all political stripes, including a former military regime leader who fought the country’s democratization, have gathered at Myeongdong Cathedral - long a bastion of Christianity and political dissent in Korea - to pay their last respects to Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan" — Mourners of all stripes gather at cathedral to pay their last respects.

The "widely revered spiritual leader and freedom fighter" is "remembered as an advocate of democracy and human rights under the authoritarian rulers in the 1970s and 1980s, fighting the military-backed dictatorial governments of Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan" — Late cardinal inspires love, care.