Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Dinosaurs Come to Boryeong

Dinosaurs in Boryeong
Dinosaurs in Boryeong The sculptures of three dinosaurs are unveiled at a beach in Boryeong, 160 kilometers south of Seoul, on Dec. 6, 2019. The Boryeong city authorities, who provided this photo, designated fossilized footprints found on the beach in 2015 as natural monuments of South Chungcheong Province in May. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: ROK Foreign Minister Visits Osan Airbase

Foreign minister at U.S. military base
Foreign minister at U.S. military base South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha arrives at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, about 70 kilometers south of Seoul, to encourage South Korean and American troops on Dec. 7, 2019, in this photo provided by her ministry. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: USFK Commander at Friendship Night

USFK general attends friendship night
USFK general attends friendship night United States Forces Korea commanding general Robert Abrams attends the Korea America Year End Friendship Night in downtown Seoul on Dec. 5, 2019. The event was hosted by the Korea America Friendship Society. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: North Korea Completes the Phalhyang Dam

N. Korea completes dam construction to ease power shortages
N. Korea completes dam construction to ease power shortages North Korean party and government officials, soldiers and construction workers hold a ceremony to mark the completion of the Phalhyang Dam of the Orangchon Power Station in North Hamgyong Province, northeastern North Korea, on Dec. 4, 2019, in this photo released by the North’s Korean Central News Agency. The dam’s completion came more than a year after leader Kim Jong-un visited the area and lashed out at workers for incompetence and procrastination. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Kim Jong-un Warms Up at a Camp Fire

N. Korean leader visits Mt. Paektu
N. Korean leader visits Mt. PaektuThis photo, released by the Korean Central News Agency on Dec. 4, 2019, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) , alongside his wife Ri Sol- ju and North Korean officials, warming himself around a bonfire on a snow-covered Mount Paektu, a volcano on the North Korean-Chinese border. Kim looked around revolutionary battle sites in the highest peak on the Korean Peninsula, considered sacred by Koreans. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Hyundai Exports Double-decker Trains to Australia

Hyundai Rotem delivers double-deck electric trains to Australia
Hyundai Rotem delivers double-deck electric trains to AustraliaThis image, released by Hyundai Rotem Co. on Dec. 2, 2019, shows a double-deck electric train manufactured by the South Korean railway system and plant equipment maker at its plant in the southeastern city of Changwon. Hyundai Rotem has sent 20 double-deck electric trains to New South Wales’ railway authorities in Australia as the first batch of the 554 vehicles it agreed to export to the Australian state. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Climbing Santas

Santas join charity pot launch event
Santas join charity pot launch eventMembers of a mountain climbing club, clad in Santa Claus costumes, stage a performance during a ceremony launching the Salvation Army’s charity pot campaign in Seoul on Dec. 1, 2019. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Kim Jong-un’s Watches Rocket Test

N.K. test-firing of 'super-large multiple launch rocket system'
N.K. test-firing of ‘super-large multiple launch rocket system’North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (far R) watches a projectile being launched from a “super-large multiple rocket launcher” off North Korea’s east coast on Nov. 28, 2019, in this photo taken from footage aired by the North’s Korean Central Television. South Korea’s military said the North fired two projectiles from what is presumed to be a super-large multiple rocket launcher from Yeonpo in the country’s eastern South Hamgyong Province toward the East Sea. 

Picture of the Day: Ruling Party Protest

Ruling party rally at National Assembly
Ruling party rally at National AssemblyLawmakers of South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party rally at the National Assembly in Seoul on Nov. 29, 2019, to condemn the main opposition Liberty Korea Party’s plan to use a filibuster to block bills on electoral reform and the establishment of a new body to investigate high-level corruption. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Hyundai to Begin Construction of New Headquarters

Hyundai's new headquarters
Hyundai’s new headquartersThis aerial photo shows a construction site for Hyundai Motor Group’s new headquarters, dubbed Global Business Center, in southern Seoul. On Nov. 27, 2019, the Seoul city government gave the conglomerate a permit to build the 569-meter-tall skyscraper. Construction work is set to begin in the first of next year for completion in the latter half of 2026. (Yonhap)