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SEOUL, South Korea — Hundreds of South Koreans, separated from family members in North Korea for more than half a century, were reunited with their relatives on Saturday as a Red Cross gathering got under way at the Diamond Mountain resort in the North.

Perhaps that's not surprising for an event centred on the global video games industry, but following 2013's focus on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles, last week's gathering got back to showing off the reasons to actually own them.

As the holiday gathering got underway Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook joined dozens of his colleagues from San Bernardino County's public health department.

The group marched from Pearson Park to City Hall, and although the gathering got loud at times, police Sgt. Daron Wyatt said it remained peaceful.

But as the gathering got underway, those themes seemed like afterthoughts, overshadowed by contentious matters from the U.S.-China trade dispute to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Military officials with their chests covered in medals and Workers Partyy delegates in dark suits gave Kim round after round of standing ovations and occasionally broke into cheers as the gathering got underway, images from North Korean state TV showed.

And while we're at it, let's acknowledge that one giant BBC newsroom means news gathering gets a great deal from a wonderful World Service correspondents' network.

JVC JAZZ FESTIVAL Rolling into town with its signature mix of jazz and pop, this annual gathering gets under way with shows by the pianist Kenny Barron, in a Father's Day appearance at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in Harlem 515 Malcolm X Blvdd.

HAROLD CLURMAN FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS The Stella Adler Studio of Acting's annual gathering gets under way on Oct. 17, with a symposium at Cooper Union's Great Hall (7 E. 7th St). about art and social activism in Africa, featuring Winter Miller, John Prendergast, Nima Elbagir, and others.

It is a heady time and a kind of reward for New Yorkers worn down by the civic compulsion to dress well, and exhausted by the extreme sport that shopping becomes here -- a cruel game of hunting and gathering, getting and spending, practiced with cunning, sharp elbows and stealth.

But even being just a building away reduces the transparency and gathering gets harder.