Drill against red tide A drill to fight the hazardous red-tide algae phenomenon takes place by spreading yellow dirt in waters off South Korea’s southern port city of Tongyeong on July 22, 2020. Red tide suffocates fish, damaging fish farms. (Yonhap)
Hand sanitization before boarding train People sanitize their hands before boarding a train at a train station in Gwangju, 330 kilometers south of Seoul, on July 19, 2020. (Yonhap)
N.K. leader inspects hospital construction site North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (R) talks to North Korean officials as he inspects the construction site of a general hospital in Pyongyang, in this photo provided by the Korean Central News Agency on July 20, 2020. He was accompanied by Kim Yo-jong (in circle), his younger sister and first vice department director of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Committee. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)
Ceremony to mark 55th anniv. of passing of ex-President Rhee People attend a ceremony to mark the 55th anniversary of the passing of former President Syngman Rhee in central Seoul on July 19, 2020. (Yonhap)
COVID-19 cases on Russian ship An ambulance is on standby to transport COVID-19 patients from a Russian fishing vessel at a repair shipyard in Busan on July 16, 2020. Three Russian crewmen from the ship that entered the country on June 26 have tested positive for the new coronavirus. (Yonhap)
Monument for aviation school in exile Participants, including Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Won In-choul (7th from R), pose for a photo during a ceremony to unveil the monument for the Willows Korean Aviation School at the National Aviation Museum of Korea in western Seoul on July 14, 2020, to mark the centennial of the opening of the school. The Korean provisional government in Shanghai set up the school in Glen County, California, in July 1920, as part of its national independence movement from the Japanese colonial rule. (Yonhap)
A road in Sancheong, South Gyeongsang Province, is closed to traffic on July 13, 2020, after being hit by a landslide caused by heavy rain, in this photo provided by the provincial government.(Yonhap)
Defense minister pays respects to war hero Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo visits the funeral home for Korean war hero Paik Sun-yup at Seoul’s Asan Medical Center on July 11, 2020. Paik died a day earlier at the age of 99.
U.S. ambassador offers flower to late Korean War hero Paik U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris holds a white chrysanthemum, a traditional mourning flower, at the funeral home of Asan Medical Center in eastern Seoul on July 11, 2020, as he waits for his turn to pay his respects to Paik Sun-yup, a famous Korean War hero and South Korea’s first four-star general, who died the previous day. (Yonhap)
Bicycle chained to Statue of Peace A bicycle is chained to the Statue of Peace near the Japanese Consulate in the southeastern city of Busan on July 8, 2020, in this photo provided by a local civic group devoted to protecting the statue symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery. (Yonhap)
