Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Crocodile Tears?

Korean Air heiress Cho Hyun-min faces the press as she arrives at the Seoul Gangseo Police Station in the morning on May 1 for questioning over allegations she splashed water in the face of an advertising agency official. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

Picture of the Day: Bus Accident Kills 8 People in South Korea

Bus accident

Rescue authorities clean up the scene where a bus collided with a passenger vehicle, killing eight and injuring 11, on a road in Yeongam County, South Jeolla Province, on May 1, 2018. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Ahn Cheol-soo Runs in Half Marathon

Opposition leader

Ahn Cheol-soo (R), the minor opposition Bareunmirae Party’s preliminary candidate for Seoul mayor, runs in a half-marathon on a road in central Seoul on April 29, 2018, in this photo provided by the local daily Chosun Ilbo. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Early Summer in South Korea

Early summer

Holidaymakers swim at the Caribbean Bay water park in Yongin, some 50 km south of Seoul, on April 29, 2018, amid warm weather. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Kim Jong-un Sees Off Chinese Bus Crash Survivors

NK leader sees off Chinese victims of bus crash

This photo captured from North Korea’s Central TV on April 26, 2018, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (R) talking with Chinese Ambassador to Pyongyang Li Jinjun while seeing off a special train carrying the bodies of Chinese killed in a deadly bus crash and those wounded at a station in Pyongyang the previous day. The April 22 accident left 32 Chinese tourists dead and two seriously injured. Four North Koreans also died.  (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Inter-Korean Summit Meeting Room

Site for inter-Korean summit

This photo taken on April 25, 2018, shows the location for the April 27 inter-Korean summit at the House of Peace, a South Korean facility that sits about 130 meters south of the inter-Korean border. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Welcome Week for Foreigners in Seoul

Welcome week for foreign tourists

Thai tourists pose behind a welcome sign set up at Myeongdong Street in downtown Seoul on April 25, 2018. The Seoul city has launched the 2018 Spring Welcome Week for foreign tourists, which will last until May 6. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Paddle Boarding on the Han River

Swimsuit-clad paddlers enjoy the fine weather off Ttukseom, Seoul, Friday.  [Korea Times]

Picture of the Day: Opinion Rigging Scandal

Rally for special probe into opinion rigging scandal

Members of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, including the party’s chairman Hong Joon-pyo (4th from R, 1st row), rally in front of the National Assembly in Seoul on April 22, 2018, to call for an independent counsel probe into a burgeoning opinion rigging scandal involving an influential blogger with alleged ties to a ruling party lawmaker. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Spring on Jeju Island

Postcard view

Rape blossoms are in full bloom at a farm on the southern resort island of Jeju on April 19, 2018, as spring deepens. (Yonhap)