Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Search for Wolf that Escaped from Daejeon Zoo Continues

This footage shows the escaped wolf roaming the streets. (Yonhap)

This footage shows the escaped wolf roaming the streets. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: North Korea Launches Missile into the East Sea

An intermediate-range ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead being launched Thursday, in this photo released by Korea Central News Agency the following day. Yonhap

An intermediate-range ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead being launched Wednesday, in this photo released by Korea Central News Agency the following day. Yonhap

Picture of the Day: Cherry Blossoms in Seoul

Cherry blossoms at Seokchon Lake
Cherry blossoms at Seokchon LakeCherry blossoms are in full bloom around Seokchon Lake in Jamsil, eastern Seoul, on April 5, 2026, during the 2026 Seokchon Lake Cherry Blossom Festival. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Cherry Blossoms in Gwangju

Cherry blossoms in S. Korea
Cherry blossoms in S. Korea
This photo, taken April 1, 2026, shows a camp ground surrounded by cherry blossoms in the southwestern city of Gwangju. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Indonesia’s President Visits South Korea

Indonesian president visits S. Korea
Indonesian president visits S. Korea
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (L) walks on a red carpet upon arrival at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, south of Seoul, on March 31, 2026, accompanied by Minister of Climate and Environment Kim Sung-hwan. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Russian News Agency Visits North Korea

Tass news agency's delegation in Pyongyang
Tass news agency’s delegation in Pyongyang
A delegation of Russia’s Tass news agency, led by the agency’s chief Andrey Kondrashov (3rd from L), visits Mangyongdae, the birthplace of the late North Korea founder President Kim Il-sung, in Pyongyang, in this undated photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency on March 31, 2026. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: North Korea’s Female Special Warfare Soldiers

N. Korea's women special warfare soldiers
N. Korea’s women special warfare soldiers
A group of women special warfare soldiers takes part in a training session at the special operations training base in an unspecified location as the North’s leader Kim Jong-un made a visit to the base affiliated with the North Korean Army’s Operations Bureau of the General Staff, in this photo taken from the North’s official Korean Central Television on March 29, 2026. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Cherry Blossom Festival in Changwon

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

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

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)