Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Yonsei University See COVID Resurgence

Virus resurgence
Virus resurgence
This photo shows the campus of Yonsei University in Seoul, where 11 students tested positive for COVID-19, on Nov. 19, 2020. The government said earlier in the day that there were 343 new infections, including 50 from abroad. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Damaged Chun Doo-hwan Statue

Ex-president's statue damaged
Ex-president’s statue damaged
This photo taken on Nov. 19, 2020, shows a statue of former President Chun Doo-whan at Cheongnamdae, a former presidential retreat, in Cheongju, 140 kilometers south of Seoul, after the neck was damaged by someone with a wire saw. Chun brutally cracked down on the 1980 Gwangju uprising. (Yonhap)
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Picture of the Day: The Future of Warfare

Defense industry fair
Defense industry fair
Small drones launched by a larger one attack targets in a demonstration at Defense and Security (DX) Korea 2020, an international defense industry fair, at an exhibition center in Ilsan, north of Seoul, on Nov. 18, 2020. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Unmanned Air Taxi Service Test

Drone taxi
Drone taxi
A two-seat drone taxi made by Chinese pilotless air taxi firm Ehang
flies over a lake in Daegu, some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, at an event to test the possibility of an unmanned air taxi service on Nov. 16, 2020. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Yellow Dust Pollution Returns to South Korea

Seoul shrouded by ultrafine dust
Seoul shrouded by ultrafine dust
High-rise buildings in Seoul are shrouded by ultrafine dust on Nov. 15, 2020, as dust density in the air rose to the “bad” level in the capital and its surrounding areas. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Wall of Buses

Walled off
Walled off
Parked police buses wall off the National Assembly compound in Yeouido, southern Seoul, during a protest rally organized by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions on Nov. 14, 2020. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: USFK Commander at Defense Forum

Defense forum
Defense forum
U.S. Forces Korea Commander Robert Abrams delivers a congratulatory speech at a forum titled “Estimates on International Security Environment and South Korea’s Strategies for Survival” at the War Memorial in Seoul on Nov. 13, 2020. (Yonhap) 

Picture of the Day: Recognizing Countries that Defended South Korea

Envoys from Korean War sending states
Envoys from Korean War sending states
Diplomats from countries that participated in the Korean War for South Korea pose at the International Conference of U.N. Sending States on Veterans’ Issues hosted by the 70th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration Committee in the southern city of Busan on Nov. 10, 2020. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Proposed Air Taxi Terminal

Hanwha Systems' air taxi terminal concept
Hanwha Systems’ air taxi terminal concept
This photo, provided by Hanwha Systems Co., a defense industry and ICT service unit of the Hanwha Group, shows a rendering of a “verti-hub,” the terminal for the takeoff and landing of air taxis to be set up at Gimpo International Airport in western Seoul in cooperation with Korea Airports Corp. The verti-hub, if built, will be the world’s first such facility for drone taxis. (Yonhap) 

Picture of the Day: Biden Visits Korean War Memorial

The captured image from the website of U.S. cable news network C-Span shows President-elect Joe Biden (L) and his wife, Jill Biden (second from L) paying their respects to Korean War veterans during their visit to a Korean War Veterans Memorial in Philadelphia on Nov. 11, 2020. (Yonhap)