Giant pot Models promote CJ CheilJedang’s new ready-to-eat cooked rice product with a giant pot and a wooden spoon at Time Square shopping mall in central Seoul on June 27, 2021. (Yonhap)
SK Telecom’s serving bot This photo provided by SK Telecom Co. on June 27, 2021, shows the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered serving bot, Servinggo, at Hotel Inter-Burgo in Daegu, 302 kilometers southeast of Seoul. SK Telecom said 10 serving bots will go into service in August at the hotel. (Yonhap)
Jet skiing Jet skiers begin a tour on Hyeongsan River in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, on June 27, 2021. More than 200 jet skiers participated in the touring event. (Yonhap)
Women’s union meeting in N.K. Participants to the seventh Congress of the Socialist Women’s Union of (North) Korea (SWUK) visit the birthplace of the late North Korea founder Kim Il-sung on June 22, 2021, in this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency. Held in Pyongyang, the meeting discussed ways to turn the union into a powerful political organization for the development of the socialist state, according to the agency.
Yearning for inter-Korean railway Members of civic groups carry a structure in the shape of an inter-Korean railway running on the Korean Peninsula as they march in front of the provincial government building in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, just south of Seoul, on June 24, 2021, to express their hopes for the materialization of railway links between the two Koreas. (Yonhap)
Monster octopus This photo, provided by the Gyeongnam Daily News, shows an octopus with 32 legs that was caught in seas off the country’s northeastern coastal county of Goseong on June 15, 2021. (Yonhap)
Vaccination center on naval vessel Helped by sailors, a resident from a remote island arrives on South Korea’s first military training vessel, Hansando (rear), off Jin Island, South Jeolla Province, southwestern South Korea, on June 21, 2021, after a high-speed boat carrying her was hauled onto the ship’s stern. The Navy has conducted an operation to help residents from remote islands, which are devoid of medical facilities, receive shots of COVID-19 vaccines at a mass vaccination center installed on the ship. The 4,500-ton Hansando is equipped with the largest medical center and the highest number of sickbeds among the country’s warships. (Yonhap)
Coupang CEO at mortuary of late fireman Coupang Inc. CEO Kang Han-seung speaks to reporters at a hospital mortuary in Hanam, south of Seoul, where he came to pay tribute to the late fireman who died in line of duty during the blaze that burned down a warehouse run by the e-commerce giant, in Icheon, 80 kilometers south of Seoul. (Yonhap)
First lady joins Korean class in Spain First Lady Kim Jung-sook, on a state visit to Spain with President Moon Jae-in, speaks after observing a class held at the King Sejong Institute in Barcelona, Spain, on June 17, 2021. (Yonhap)
Incheon airport’s 4th runway Land and Transport Minister Noh Hyeong-ouk (2nd from L) visits the fourth runway at Incheon airport, west of Seoul, on June 16, 2021, before it is put into service starting 1:00 a.m. the next day. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)
