Participants squirt their water pistols in Sinchon, a hangout for young people, on July 8, 2018, as they gear up for a water gun festival as a part of fun activities to get through a hot summer day. (Yonhap)
Foreign students participating in the international summer school of Korea University stage a K-pop flash mob at the school in Seoul on July 6, 2018. They danced to “Red Flavor,” a song of Red Velvet, one of K-pop’s biggest girl groups. (Yonhap)
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| Kim Jong-un is a demi-god in North Korea so few would be willing to point out that the seat of his trousers has a big smudge of dirt across the bottom during his recent tour of a textile factory in Sinuiju on the border with China. Or was it intentional to show Kim has worked hard for the people? Kim reportedly upbraided factory workers for poor work performance. This footage is from the North Korean Central TV. Yonhap via Korea Times |
North Korea’s top leader Kim Jong-un (2nd from R) talks with workers during his visit to the Sinuiju Chemical Fibre Mill in the town bordering China in this clip from the North’s Central TV on July 2, 2018. The country’s media outlets said Kim chastised workers during his visits to plants in the city for not working hard enough. In the case of the mill, Kim “seriously reproved officials for failing to take pains to finish as early as possible the upgrading of the paper manufacturing process,” the report said in English. (Yonhap)
This photo shows an inter-Korean basketball friendly underway at Ryugyong Chung Ju-yung Gymnasium in Pyongyang on July 4, 2018. (Yonhap)
Activists stage a protest in central Seoul on June 30, 2018, demanding the government ban the consumption of dog meat in South Korea. (Yonhap)
Fire authorities work on drainage as torrential rain flooded a residential area in Seogwipo, a city on the southernmost island of Jeju, on June 30, 2018. Weather authorities have issued a downpour warning for most of the island, except for some parts in the west. (Yonhap)
This image released by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration on June 29, 2018, shows the design of South Korea’s indigenous fighter jet KF-X program aimed at manufacturing 120 advanced fighter jets to replace the Air Force’s aging F-4 and F-5 combat planes. South Korea plans to complete the design process by Sep. 2019 and produce the first prototype in 2021. (Yonhap)
Actor Daniel Henny attends a ceremony in Gwangju on June 29, 2018, to launch the new budget carrier Air Philip. (Yonhap)
Nobel Prize-winning American economist Paul Krugman delivers a keynote speech at a special talk on South Korea’s social polarization at the conference hall of the Federation of Korean Industries in Seoul on June 27, 2018. (Yonhap)
