South Korean honour guards carry a coffin containing the late former President Kim Dae-jung's body.
South Korean honour guards cover a coffin, containing the body of the late former president Kim Dae-Jung, with a national flag.
Kim Jong-dae, a grandson of South Korea's former President Kim Dae-jung, carries a portrait of his grandfather before leaving for the National Assembly in Seoul.
Kim Dae-Jung, a democracy campaigner who survived assassination attempts and a death sentence to win South Korea's presidency and the Nobel peace prize, died on August 18 at the age of 85.
South Korean Buddhist monks leave after paying a silent tribute to the late former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung.
Mourners lay flowers at the memorial altar for the late former South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung at a hospital in Seoul.
Mourners pass by the memorial altar for the late former South Korean president Kim Dae-Jung in front of the Seoul city hall.
Lee Hee-Ho (2nd L), wife of the late former president Kim Dae-Jung, walks with relatives to the memorial room for Kim at the Severance Hospital in Seoul.
Kim Dae-jung (R) awarded the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for his reconciliation efforts with communist North Korea.
Roh Moo-Hyun (L) waves while outgoing president Kim Dae-Jung (R) applauds during Roh's swearing-in ceremony as 16th South Korean president on February 25, 2003.
File photo taken on June 15, 2000 shows Kim Dae-jung (R) being embraced by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il before the former South Korean president departed from Pyongyang after their three-day summit.
Kim Dae-Jung (L) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during the historic summit between the two countries in Pyongyang in 2000.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (R) and the then South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung posed for photographers during their historic meeting in Pyongyang in 2000.
File photo shows (L-R) South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak, his wife, former president Kim Young-Sam and former president Kim Dae-Jung at the funeral of former president Roh Moo-Hyun. Roh jumped to his death while under a corruption probe.
File photo taken on February 20, 2002 shows the then US President George W. Bush (centre L) and Kim Dae Jung (centre R) walking during an arrival ceremony at the Blue House in Seoul.
Kim Dae-Jung (R) and the then Japanese Premier Junichiro Koizumi (L) holding Japan and South Korea (red) national football team shirts bearing their names during a visit to the Seoul World Cup Stadium on March 22, 2002.
Photo on 4 June 2002 shows Kim Dae Jung (L) and his wife watching a first-round South Korea-Poland football match in the 2002 FIFA World Cup at the Busan stadium.
A South Korean conservative activist holds up a placard denouncing the "Sunshine" policy of engagement with North Korea adopted by former president Kim Dae-Jung who held office from 1998 to 2003.
Kim Dae-Jung (R), former Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri (L) and former Japanese Premier Junichiro Koizumi (C) at an APEC leaders' informal gathering in Shanghai (file photo).
Photo taken in 1997 shows Kim Dae-jung, then a presidential candidate, and US pop star Michael Jackson who was in Seoul to discuss investment in South Korea's Muju Resort. Jackson died on June 25, 2009.
