The ex-President of South Korea, Kim Dae Jung, was laid to rest on Sunday after 6 days of mourning to honor the former dignitary.  This was the second state funeral ever in South Korea.  Kim Dae Jung had died Tuesday of heart failure.

Kim — who was president from 1998 to 2003 — won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 for trying to foster better relations with North Korea.

The watershed moment of his presidency came in June 2000 when he met North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, becoming the first South Korean leader to do so since the Korean War unofficially ended in 1953.

Though relations have not progressed as Kim Dae Jung had hoped for since his meeting with North Korea, it did provide some elements of bridging the two countries who are still technically at war.

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