Watching baseball game in COVID-19 era Spectators watch a baseball game while keeping distance between each other in Seoul on Oct. 18, 2020, as part of efforts to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. (Yonhap)
U.S. rotational brigade arrives U.S. military vehicles arrive in the southeastern port city of Busan on Oct. 15, 2020, in this photo, provided by the U.S. Eighth Army. Troops and equipment of an American armored brigade combat team are coming to South Korea for a rotational deployment. (Yonhap)
NK leader inspects rehabilitation area This photo, provided by the Korean Central News Agency on Oct. 14, 2020, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (in white clothes) inspecting a rehabilitation site in the Komdok area of South Hamgyong Province, which was hit hard by Typhoon Maysak early last month. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)
N. Korea’s killing of S. Korean official Lee Rae-jin, the elder brother of a South Korean official killed by North Korean soldiers while drifting in its waters, holds up a letter from President Moon Jae-in in front of the Coast Guard headquarters in Incheon, west of Seoul, on Oct. 14, 2020. The slain official’s son received the letter the previous day after he wrote a letter to Moon last week, in which the son questioned the South Korean government’s announcement that his father sought defection and pleaded with the president to find the truth about his father’s death. (Yonhap)
Moomin-themed park on Jeju Island Finnish Ambassador to South Korea Pekka Metso (C) attends a ceremony at Moomin Land, a park themed on Finland’s Moonmin fairy-tale characters, in the city of Seogwipo on South Korea’s largest island of Jeju on Oct. 8, 2020, to mark its opening. (Yonhap)
Waiting for harvesting Rice paddies turn yellow in Boseong, a town in South Korea’s southwestern province of South Jeolla, on Oct. 7, 2020, as rice ripens for harvesting. (Yonhap)
World’s largest artificial surfing park opens A surfer shows off his skills at an artificial surfing park on Geobuk Island in Siheung, west of Seoul, on Oct. 7, 2020. The Wave Park, the operator of which says is the world’s largest and the first of its kind in Asia, opened the same day. (Yonhap)
Pro-choice rally Members of a pro-choice civic body rally in front of the National Assembly in Seoul on Oct. 7, 2020. On the same day, the government made public its plan to revise laws to allow abortion until the 14th week of pregnancy. The revisions also conditionally allow abortion until the 24th week of pregnancy based on social, economic and health concerns. (Yonhap)
Pro-life rally Members of a pro-life civic body rally in front of the National Assembly in Seoul on Oct. 7, 2020. On the same day, the government made public its plan to revise laws to allow abortion until the 14th week of pregnancy. The revisions also conditionally allow abortion until the 24th week of pregnancy based on social, economic and health concerns. (Yonhap)
Launch of sea train operation A train of the Haeundae Beach Train service undergoes a test run in the southwestern port city of Busan on Oct. 6, 2020. The service with a round trip, which will start the next day, allows passengers to enjoy a seaside view on a 4.8-kilometer route. (Yonhap)
