Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Hyundai Prepares to Sell Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

Hyundai Motor begins preorders for NEXO

Hyundai Motor Co.’s new hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicle NEXO, featured in this photo from the company on March 16, 2018, will go on preorder from March 19. The automaker plans to export the vehicle overseas within this year, aiming to sell 10,000 units globally by 2022. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Snow Capped Mt. Seorak

Snow-capped peak beneath brilliant blue sky

This photo, taken on March 16, 2018, shows the landscape of Jungcheong Peak, which was covered with snow in an overnight snowfall, on Mount Seorak in Yangyang on South Korea’s east coast, in this photo released by the office of the Mount Seorak National Park. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: North Korean Paralympic Team Heads Home

N.K. Paralympics team heads back home

Members of North Korea’s team to the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics arrive at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, just south of the inter-Korean border, on March 15, 2018, on their way back home. A 24-member delegation, with six athletes, came for North Korea’s first participation in the Winter Paralympics. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Lee Myung-Bak Questioned Over Corruption Allegations

Ex-President Lee grilled over corruption allegations

Former President Lee Myung-bak (C) arrives at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office on March 14, 2018, to be grilled as a suspect over a string of corruption allegations that include bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Wheelchair Curling

S. Korea falls to Germany in wheelchair curling

South Korea’s Jung Seung-won throws a stone at a wheelchair curling match of the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics against Germany on March 12, 2018, in Gangneung, east of Seoul. South Korea lost the game 4-3, ending its four-match winning streak in the round-robin preliminaries. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Garlic Girls Visit Euiseong

Olympic curlers welcomed

Members of the women’s and men’s 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics curling teams are welcomed by residents of Euiseong, 334 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on March 12, 2018. The women’s team won a silver in curling, the first medal in the event for the country, at the Winter Games last month, making proud the city in North Gyeongsang Province where four of the five team members are originally from. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Impeachment Anniversary

Impeachment anniversary

Supporters of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye participate in a protest near Anguk Station in downtown Seoul on March 10, 2018, the one year anniversary of the Constitutional Court’s ruling to uphold the impeachment by the National Assembly. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Educational Ritual

Welcoming freshmen

Freshmen of Sungkyunkwan University take part in an ancestral ritual at Sungkyunkwan, a Joseon Dynasty educational institute, in Seoul on March 11, 2018. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Former Governor Questioned About Two Sexual Assaults

Ex-Gov. An grilled over alleged sexual misconduct

Former South Chungcheong Gov. An Hee-jung speaks to reporters after arriving at the Seoul Western District Prosecutors’ Office on March 9, 2018, to face questioning over allegations that he sexually assaulted at least two women, one of whom was his secretary. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Paralympic Opening Ceremony

Carrying Paralympic torch

South Korean ice sledge hockey captain Han Min-su climbs up the slope with the Paralympic torch on his back during the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province, on March 9, 2018. (Yonhap)