Some 470 South Koreans have returned home after wrapping up three days of reunions with their long-lost relatives in North Korea.

Before heading back to the South on Tuesday morning, the separated families bid tearful farewell to one hundred North Korean relatives - without knowing whether or when they would ever meet again.

On Sunday and Monday, the family members met in both group and individual reunions in the North's Mount Geumgang resort for the first time in more than 50 years.

A second group of 149 South Korean family members are set to leave for the East Coast resort on Wednesday to be reunited with their relatives from the North.

The latest round of family reunions is the tenth since the historic inter-Korean summit in 2000.