Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Fine Dust Blankets Seoul

Seoul sky covered with fine dust
Seoul sky covered with fine dustThis photo, taken from the Namsan Seoul Tower in downtown Seoul on March 3, 2019, shows a man wearing a mask and the Seoul sky covered with fine dust. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Kim Jong-un Pays Tribute to Ho Chi Minh

Kim pays tribute at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
Kim pays tribute at the Ho Chi Minh MausoleumNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, in Hanoi, to pay tribute on March 2, 2019, before heading to the Vietnamese border town of Dong Dang from where he is expected to cross into China by train on his way back to his country. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: 100th Anniversary of ROK March 1st Movement

Centennial of 1919 popular movement against Japanese rule
Centennial of 1919 popular movement against Japanese ruleStudents of Ewha Girls High School place flowers in front of a statue of independence fighter Yu Gwan-sun at the school in Seoul on March 1, 2019, during a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1919 popular movement that protested for independence from Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. Yu, an alumnus of the school, died while imprisoned for leading pro-independence rallies. Transferred to an underground cell in the prison, she marked the first anniversary of the March 1 Movement before dying of her injuries on Sept. 28, 1920, at age 17. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Helicopter Crash Salvage Mission

Salvaging chopper
Salvaging chopperWork to pull out a crashed helicopter belonging to a regional fire headquarters takes place at Hapcheon Dam in Hapcheon, 354 km southeast of Seoul, on Feb. 28, 2019. The accident took place the previous day. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: The Odd Couple?

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump dine together at a Hanoi hotel in this photo captured from the footage aired by Yonhap News TV. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Kindergarten Protest

Kindergarten operators' protest
Kindergarten operators’ protestMembers from the Korea Kindergarten Association, an organization of private kindergartens, stage a protest against the revision of kindergarten-related laws in front of the National Assembly in Seoul on Feb. 25, 2019. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: No Anti-US Stamps in 2019

N.K. to not issue anti-U.S. stamps
N.K. to not issue anti-U.S. stampsThis document, released by the Seoul-based Korea Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation on Feb. 25, 2019, shows a North Korean plan to issue stamps for this year. According to the plan, North Korea will not issue anti-American stamps, which it has published every year since 1952. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Summit Preparations

Preparing for summit
Preparing for summitNorth Korea’s Kim Song-hye, director of the United Front Department’s tactical office, leaves the Vietnamese government’s guesthouse in Hanoi on Feb. 23, 2019. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Vietnamese Soldiers Guard Rail Station

Dong Dang station
Dong Dang stationVietnamese soldiers guard the border station of Dong Dang in Lang Son province on Feb. 23, 2019, where North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is expected to pass through ahead of the upcoming Washington-Pyongyang summit in Hanoi. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Yongin Selected to Be Site of World’s Second Biggest Semiconductor Plant

Site for world's biggest semiconductor cluster
Site for world’s biggest semiconductor clusterThis aerial photo shows Wonsam Village in Yongin, some 50 km south of Seoul, which SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chip maker, announced on Feb. 21, 2019, as a candidate site for the world’s biggest semiconductor cluster worth 120 trillion won (US$106.6 billion). (Yonhap)