3 800 couples wed in mass ceremony in South Korea

Gapyeong - Thousands of couples took part in a mass wedding on Tuesday at the South Korean headquarters of the Unification Church - the third such event since the death of their "messiah" and church founder Sun Myung Moon.

Around 3 800 identically-dressed couples - mostly young and some who had met just days before - participated in the ceremony in Gapyeong, east of the capital Seoul.

Mass weddings, often held in giant sports stadiums with tens of thousands of couples, have long been a signature feature of the church founded by Moon in 1954.