Park Young-shik (R) receives an identification certificate for his late father, Park Tae-hong, from Lee Hak-ki, head of the defense ministry’s remains excavation and identification task force, during a ceremony in Yangju, east of Seoul, to mark the return of the national hero on Oct. 16, 2018. PFC. Park was killed in action there during the 1950-53 Korean War, and his remains were excavated from a hill in Pohang, 370 km southeast of Seoul in 2009. (Yonhap)
U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris holds a copy of the U.S. TIME magazine featuring popular K-pop band BTS during an experts forum at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul on Oct. 17, 2018. (Yonhap)
Adm. John Aquilino, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, holds an interview with Yonhap News Agency on the USS Ronald Reagan after the nuclear-powered supercarrier entered a naval base on Jeju, South Korea’s southernmost island, on Oct. 122, 2018. The ship joined the International Fleet Review off Jeju the previous day. (Yonhap)
Members of nongovernment organizations call for the deportation of “fake refugees” from South Korea in a rally held in downtown Seoul on Oct. 14, 2018. (Yonhap)
Kim Jin-ho (L), chairman of the Korean Veterans Association (KVA), shakes hands with outgoing U.S. Forces Korea Commander Gen. Vincent Brooks in Seoul on Oct. 12, 2018, after presenting him with the KVA’s highest insignia, in this photo provided by the association. (Yonhap)
President Moon Jae-in introduces his Pungsan dogs to BBC Seoul correspondent Laura Bicker during an interview at the presidential office in Seoul on Oct. 12, 2018, in this photo released by the office. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un gifted the dogs to Moon to mark their talks in Pyongyang from Sept. 18-20. The dogs were both born in 2017 in the North Korean county of Pungsan. (Yonhap)
A demonstration of timber rafting is under way on the Soyang River in Inje, 165 kilometers northeast of Seoul, on Oct. 9, 2018, in this photo provided by the Inje county office the next day. (Yonhap)
Huh Sung-moo (L), mayor of the southeastern city of Changwon, poses with a Hyundai Motor official during a ceremony to hand over the carmaker’s Nexo hydro-electric car at the city hall on Oct. 10, 2018, in this photo provided by the city. The city decided to use Hyundai’s hydro-electric cars as its official cars. (Yonhap)
Participants call for Japan to apologize for its wartime sexual slavery at a weekly rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Oct. 10, 2018. Some 200,000 women, mostly Koreans, are estimated to have been forced to serve the Japanese army in front-line brothels during World War II. They are euphemistically called “comfort women.” (Yonhap)
Calligrapher Kim Dong-wook writes Korean letters at an event at Gwangwhamun Square in Seoul on Oct. 8, 2018 to commemorate Hangeul Day, which falls on Oct. 9. Hangeul is the Korean alphabet. (Yonhap)
