Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Taean Beach Opens

Beach officially opens
Beach officially opens
People relax at a beach in the western coastal city of Taean in South Chungcheong Province on June 6, 2020. The beach officially opened Saturday and is scheduled to run until Aug. 16. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Rally Against North Korean Defectors in Pyongyang

N. Korean students condemn defectors
N. Korean students condemn defectors
This photo captured from North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun on June 6, 2020, shows students at Kimchaek University of Technology criticizing North Korean defectors. In a June 4 statement, Kim Yo-jong, the North Korean leader’s powerful sister and first vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, threatened to scrap a military tension reduction agreement with South Korea and completely shut down other major cross-border exchanges unless Seoul takes action against anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent into the communist nation. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Bar Workers Take Coronavirus Tests

New coronavirus
New coronavirus
Workers and merchants queue for coronavirus tests at a makeshift clinic around an alley known for draft beer bars in Seoul’s Jung Ward on June 5, 2020. The Jung Ward office implemented the tests as part of efforts to reopen the bars at the Nogari Alley after they were closed due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. (Yonhap) 

Picture of the Day: Yonggung Suspension Bridge Reopens

Yonggung Suspension Bridge reopening
Yonggung Suspension Bridge reopening
People line up to cross the newly reopened Yonggung Suspension Bridge in Amnan Park, in Busan, 453 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on June 4, 2020. Busan’s Seo Ward, which provided the photo, said top municipal officials attended the opening ceremony earlier in the day, some 18 years after the old bridge was dismantled. (Yonhap) 

Picture of the Day: Looted Korean Owned Shop

Looted Korean-run stores in U.S.
Looted Korean-run stores in U.S.
This photo, provided by the Pennsylvania Beauty Supply Association, shows a Korean-run shop looted on June 2, 2020, amid riots following the alleged murder of George Floyd by a policeman in Minneapolis. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Inflatable Fans

Inflatable characters are seen in the stands Sunday at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Songpa District, southern Seoul, while the Doosan Bears face off against the Lotte Giants. The KBO last Thursday announced plans to continue no-spectator games for several more weeks after recent spikes in Covid-19 cases in Korea. [YONHAP]

Inflatable characters are seen in the stands Sunday at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Songpa District, southern Seoul, while the Doosan Bears face off against the Lotte Giants. The KBO last Thursday announced plans to continue no-spectator games for several more weeks after recent spikes in Covid-19 cases in Korea. [YONHAP]

Picture of the Day: Mega-Church Service in South Korea

Service at Sarang Community Church
Service at Sarang Community Church
Sarang Community Church holds a service at its main hall in southern Seoul on May 31, 2020, in this photo provided by the church. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Coronavirus Causes Museum Closure

National Palace Museum closed
National Palace Museum closedThe National Palace Museum of Korea in downtown Seoul is closed on May 31, 2020, due to a recent resurgence in new coronavirus cases linked to a logistics center in the capital area. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: KCTU Protesting for Better Jobs

Protesting for better jobs
Protesting for better jobs
Participants in a rally organized by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions sing a song in central Seoul on May 30, 2020. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Illegal Chinese Entrant

Illegal Chinese entrant
Illegal Chinese entrant
A Chinese national (C) in his 40s is taken by Coast Guard members to Taean Maritime Police Station in the western coastal city of Taean for a probe on May 27, 2020. He is one of six Chinese people who allegedly snuck into the country aboard a six-seat, 1.5-ton motorboat via the city on May 20. The others are still missing. (Yonhap)