Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Cherry Blossom Road

Cherry blossom road
Cherry blossom road
Cherry blossoms create a scenic view on a 4-kilometer road along the Seomjin River between the southern counties of Hadong and Gurye, 422 km south of Seoul, on March 31, 2022. (Yonhap) 

Picture of the Day: Controversial Japanese Textbook

Controversial Japanese textbooks
Controversial Japanese textbooks
This photo shows Japanese high school textbooks approved by the government on March 29, 2022, which lay territorial claim to South Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo. (Yonhap) 

Picture of the Day: Legoland Opens in Chuncheon on May 5th

Legoland Korea, the 10th Legoland in the world and first global theme park in the country, will officially open in the eastern city of Chuncheon on Children’s Day, May 5. The Gangwon Provincial Government held a completion ceremony for the theme park in the city, Saturday, 11 years after the memorandum of agreement (MOA) was signed, in September 2011.

The theme park covers an area of 280,000 square meters and offers over 40 rides in seven zones with different Lego themes. The resort also features 150 rooms and suites, which are also designed to be made with Legos.

Picture of the Day: Flowers for Ex-President Park Geun-hye

Flowers to welcome ex-President Park
Flowers to welcome ex-President Park
Flowers are put around the new residence of former President Park Geun-hye in the southeastern city of Daegu on March 27, 2022, as supporters welcomed her return home after she was discharged from a Seoul hospital last week. Park was pardoned at the end of last year after four years and nine months of imprisonment for a corruption scandal that led to her removal from office in 2017. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Yoon Suk-yeol Meets with Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol (3rd from L) speaks with former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (3rd from R) during a breakfast meeting in Seoul, in this photo uploaded on Pence’s Twitter account on March 25, 2022. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Kim Jong-un Celebrates Successful ICBM Launch

N. Korea confirms test-firing of Hwasong-17 ICBM
N. Korea confirms test-firing of Hwasong-17 ICBM
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) poses for a group photo with soldiers of the country’s strategic forces after he inspected the launch of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from Pyongyang International Airport on March 24, 2022, in this photo released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency. The missile traveled up to a maximum altitude of 6,248.5 kilometers and flew a distance of 1,090 km before falling into the East Sea, the KCNA said. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Memorial in Honor of Sailors Killed in the Cheonan Incident

Ahead of anniversary of Cheonan incident
Ahead of anniversary of Cheonan incident
A memorial concert is held at the National Cemetery in Daejeon, 164 kilometers south of Seoul, on March 21, 2022, to honor the 46 South Korean sailors killed in the torpedoing of the warship Cheonan by an infiltrating North Korean submarine within South Korean territorial waters in the West Sea on March 26, 2010. They were buried at the cemetery. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Snowy Pileup in Yangyang

Pileup on snowy road
Pileup on snowy road
This CCTV image provided by the Korea Expressway Corp. shows the scene of a five-vehicle pileup on a slippery road on the Seoul-Yangyang Expressway in the northeastern county of Yangyang during snowfall on March 19, 2022. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: March Snowfall in Seoul

Snowfall in March
Snowfall in March
Pedestrians hold umbrellas during snowfall in central Seoul on March 19, 2022. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Terrorism Drill at Korea’s Legoland

Anti-terror drill ahead of Legoland opening
Anti-terror drill ahead of Legoland opening
Firefighters conduct an anti-terror and fire drill at a Lego-themed amusement park on Jungdo Island in the lake city of Chuncheon, 85 kilometers northeast of Seoul, on March 15, 2022. The world’s largest Legoland, a project by Britain’s Merlin Entertainment Group, is scheduled to open on May 5, Children’s Day. (Yonhap)