Anchor: While most South Koreans spend time with their parents and siblings during the four-day Lunar New Year holiday, some remain divided from their loved ones by the border to the North. KBS has obtained recordings of separated families in North Korea discussing their hopes for reunion. 
Our Kim In-kyung has more.
 
Report: North Koreans separated from their families in the South say they are worried about their siblings’ health, and they hope to meet them before they die.
 
A North Korean man who visited his parents' grave on a hill in North Pyeongan Province with his son prayed for his older brother in the South. 
 
[Soundbite: a separated family member in North Korea] 
"Father, Mother... Please look after my brother's family so they may all be healthy. Please be well until the day we meet."
 
The North Korean man said he is keeping the only relic left by his parents, an earthenware jar, to give it to his older brother.
 
A North Korean woman talked about being separated from a relative in the South.
 
[Soundbite: a separated family member in North Korea] 
"There is no way to express my feelings about never meeting my elder brother-in-law when we are so far away, separated across North and South."
 
Another North Korean woman cried, saying her only hope is to meet her family in South Korea before she dies.
 
[Soundbite: a separated family member in North Korea] 
"No one who hasn't been separated from their siblings can understand. I cannot sleep at night and I look at the moon thinking my brother may stare at the same moon. I wish I can meet him just once before I die."
 
North Korea's separated families are waiting to meet their relatives in the South and pour a glass of rice wine in ancestral rituals for their parents who have passed away.
 
About 73-thousand South Koreans are on a waiting list to meet their relatives in the North. Roughly 80 percent of them are more than 70 years old and time is running out to reunite with their loved ones.
 
But most have already lost their chance, considering millions of Koreans were divided by the Korean War between 1950 and 1953. 
Kim In-kyung, KBS World Radio News.