Excavation of Korean War soldiers’ remains Soldiers carry South Korean flag-draped boxes containing the excavated remains of South Korean soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War at White Horse Ridge in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, in this undated photo provided by the defense ministry on Dec. 1, 2025. The military has recovered the remains of 25 bodies believed to belong to soldiers killed in the conflict and 1,962 pieces of their belongings following a 40-day search from Oct. 15-Nov. 28 involving troops from South Korea and member states of the U.S.-led U.N. Command, according to the ministry. (Yonhap)
Heavy snow advisory The Guryong Pass in Yangyang, Gangwon Province, is covered with snow on Nov. 25, 2025, amid a heavy snow advisory issued for the province’s mountainous regions. (Yonhap)
Lee meets South African president President Lee Jae Myung (L) shakes hands with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Nov. 22, 2025. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)
N.K. dedicates hydropower station A hydropower station is seen in Hoeyang, Kangwon Province, eastern North Korea, on Nov. 20, 2025, as the North’s leader Kim Jong-un attended a ceremony marking its completion, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) the next day. The completion of the Hoeyang Army-People Power Station is the last project of the six hydropower stations in the province, the KCNA said. (Yonhap)
Sakhalin Koreans visit S. Korea Twenty-four ethnic Koreans who reside on Russia’s Far East island of Sakhalin pose for a group photo after arriving at Seoul’s Gimpo airport on Nov. 17, 2025, to make an eight-day visit to their mother country with the help of the Korean National Red Cross. Japan forcibly mobilized about 150,000 Koreans to work in coal mines, pulp mills and military facilities on Sakhalin during World War II, when the southern part of the Russian island was under Japanese control. (Yonhap)
Jeju Island sees season’s 1st snow Tourists enjoy the scenery around a snow-covered trail in the 1100 Highland, located at an altitude of 1,100 meters above sea level, on Mount Halla in the city of Jeju on South Korea’s largest island of the same name on Nov. 18, 2025, after the island saw the season’s first snow. (Yonhap)
S. Korean President Lee in UAE South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (L) shakes hands with Yousef Al-Obaidi, director-general of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Nov. 17, 2025, as he visits the country’s largest mosque after arriving in the Middle Eastern country for his state visit. (Yonhap)
U.S. naval chief visits shipyard Hanwha Ocean CEO Kim Hee-cheol (L) briefs U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle (C, front) on the company’s shipbuilding capabilities at a naval ship construction site in Geoje, 390 kilometers south of Seoul, on Nov. 15, 2025. (Yonhap)
