Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Korea’s New Environment Minister

New environment minister nominee

Cho Myung-rae, president of the Korea Environment Institute, receives a call at his office in Sejong on Oct. 5, 2018. President Moon Jae-in nominated him as new environment minister earlier in the day. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Typhoon Kong-Rey Flooding

Southern county hit by Typhoon Kong-rey

Buildings, cars and roads are flooded by torrential rains brought by Typhoon Kong-rey in Yeongdeok, 350 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Oct. 6, 2018. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: ROK Politicians Visit Pyongyang

S. Korean delegation in Pyongyang

South Korean delegates watch a 3D movie during a visit to the Sci-Tech Complex in Pyongyang on Oct. 4, 2018. A 160-strong South Korean delegation is now in Pyongyang to attend an event to jointly celebrate the anniversary of the 2007 inter-Korean summit. (Yonhap)

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Picture of the Day: Inter-Korean Magician

Magician with NK leader

This photo belatedly released by the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae on Oct. 2, 2018, shows South Korean magician Choi Hyun-woo (L) performing with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during an inter-Korean summit dinner at the North’s state banquet hall in Pyongyang on Sept. 18. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Lawfare Continues in South Korea

Rally against probe into lawmaker over budget records leak

Lawmakers of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, including its floor leader Kim Sung-tae (5th from L), visit the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seoul on Sept. 28, 2018, to protest prosecutors’ investigation into allegations that aides of its lawmaker Shim Jae-chul (4th from L) accessed digital files on fiscal budgets and other confidential data without authorization. The party denounced the investigation as a “grave suppression” of an opposition party and accused the government of trying to block people’s right to know. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: President Moon Visits Ancestors’ Tomb at Catholic Cemetery

Moon visits ancestors' tombs

President Moon Jae-in (R), alongside his wife Kim Jung-sook, visits his ancestors’ tombs at a Catholic graveyard in the southeastern city of Yangsan on Sept. 28, 2018, as he took the day off after returning from a trip to New York the previous day, in this photo released by the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae. In New York, he held talks with U.S. President Donald Trump and attended the U.N. General Assembly. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Flowers Blooming on Jeju Island

Buckwheat flowers bloom on Jeju Island

Tourists view a field of blooming buckwheat flowers in the city of Jeju on South Korea’s southern island of the same name on Sept. 28, 2018. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: No Korean Made Trainer Aircraft for US Air Force

S. Korea loses U.S. military trainer jet bid

This photo, taken on Sept. 28, 2018, shows a model of the T-50 jet trainer displayed at the headquarters of Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), South Korea’s sole aircraft manufacturer, in Sacheon, a city in South Korea’s southeastern province of South Gyeongsang. The aircraft manufacturer said on the same day the U.S. Air Force has selected Boeing Co. over the KAI-Lockheed Martin Corp. consortium in a U.S. training aircraft bid as the former submitted the lowest price of $9.2 billion. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: North Korea’s New UN Envoy

New North Korea envoy to U.N.

Kim Song, North Korea’s new top envoy to the United Nations, is seen at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 20, 2018. Kim presented his credentials to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the day. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: New Constitutional Court Chief Justice

Moon appoints new Constitutional Court chief

President Moon Jae-in (R) gives a letter of appointment to Yoo Nam-seok, new chief justice of the Constitutional Court, at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on Sept. 21, 2018. (Yonhap)