Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Cherry Blossom Festival in Changwon

| March 31, 2026
Cherry blossom festival opens
Cherry blossom festival opens
People take a stroll around the Yeojwa Stream, one of the top spots for viewing cherry blossoms, in the southeastern city of Changwon on March 27, 2026, after the city’s Cherry Blossom Festival, the biggest of its kind in the country, opened the same day. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Drug Trafficker Appears in Court

| March 30, 2026
Court to decide on warrant for drug trafficker
Court to decide on warrant for drug trafficker
Park Wang-yeol, a 48-year-old South Korean repatriated from the Philippines, is taken to a district court in Uijeongbu, northeast of Seoul, on March 27, 2026, to attend a hearing on the legality of his arrest for drug smuggling and distribution charges. Park has been serving a 60-year prison sentence in the Philippines for the murders of three South Koreans in 2016 and arrived in the country on March 25. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: KCTU Protests Iran War

| March 27, 2026
Anti-war rally
Anti-war rally
Portraits for victims of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran are laid out as protestors from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions stage a rally in front of the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on March 25, 2026 to express their objection to the war with Iran and South Korea’s dispatch of troops to the conflict. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Aftermath of Deadly Wind Turbine Fire that Killed Three Koreans

| March 26, 2026
Wind turbine fire
Wind turbine fire
This photo, taken March 24, 2026, shows a wind turbine inside a wind power complex in Yeongdeok, North Gyeongsang Province, southeastern South Korea, after two of the turbine’s three blades caught fire and fell to the ground the previous day, leaving three workers dead. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Ruling Party Chief Honors Former President Roh Moo-hyun

| March 25, 2026
Ruling party's chief honors late president
Ruling party’s chief honors late president
Jung Chung-rae (C, 1st row), leader of the ruling Democratic Party, pays tribute to late President Roh Moo-hyun at Roh’s tomb in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, southeastern South Korea, on March 23, 2026. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Spring Arrives in Seoul

| March 24, 2026
Forsythia blossoms bloom on Seoul mountain
Forsythia blossoms bloom on Seoul mountain
Visitors hike Mount Eungbong in Seoul’s Seongdong Ward on March 23, 2026, where forsythia blossoms, the Korean symbol of spring, are in full bloom. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Buddhist Monks Protest Iran War

| March 20, 2026
Buddhist monks' anti-war rally
Buddhist monks’ anti-war rally
A group of Buddhist monks affiliated with the Jogye Order, South Korea’s largest Buddhist sect, engages in a practice of bowing, in which participants prostrate themselves, near Jogye Temple in Seoul on March 17, 2026, as they move toward the U.S. Embassy to express their objection to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for countries to dispatch warships to the Strait of Hormuz. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Seoul Police Chief Inspects BTS Concert Site

| March 19, 2026

Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Commissioner Park Jung-bo (left) inspects the setup of the stage being prepared for BTS’s comeback performance at Gwanghwamun Square at the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in Jongno-gu, Seoul, Wednesday. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: North Koreans Participate in “Election”

| March 18, 2026
N. Korea holds parliamentary elections
N. Korea holds parliamentary elections
North Korean people visit a polling station to cast their ballots in an unspecified location on March 15, 2026, as the country held parliamentary elections nationwide to elect deputies to the Supreme People’s Assembly, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency the next day. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)