A protester holds placards that read “Arrest Lee Myung-bak” in front of the residence of former President Lee Myung-bak in Seoul’s Gangnam Ward on March 6, 2018. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office subpoenaed Lee to come to the office for questioning as a suspect on March 14 over a string of suspicions of bribery and other irregularities. (Yonhap)
Actress Kim Hye-soo poses with an award she received for being a model taxpayer at a ceremony in Seoul on March 5, 2018. (Yonhap)
This photo provided by South Korean presidential office Cheong Wa Dae shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (third from L) posing for a group picture with special envoys of South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang on March 5, 2018. They are (from L) Yun Kun-young, a Cheong Wa Dae official in charge of a policy monitoring office, Chung Eui-yong, chief of the National Security Office, Kim, Suh Hoon, head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung and Kim Sang-gyun, a senior NIS director. (Yonhap)
Members of South Korea’s ninth rotational contingent of peacekeeping troops to South Sudan raise their fists in a show of solidarity at a send-off ceremony in Incheon, west of Seoul, on March 5, 2018. South Korea has been participating in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan since March 2013, rotating their contingent every eight months, to help with the country’s reconstruction. (Yonhap)
Families of the dead and missing crew watch in despair as a capsized fishing boat is hoisted at a pier in Wando on March 3, 2018. The boat was found floating upside down in waters off the country’s southwest coast on Feb. 28. Two of the seven crew on board were found dead inside the boat, and the rest remain missing. (Yonhap)
A group of South Korean athletes moves into their lodging facility in the country’s eastern alpine town of PyeongChang on March 3, 2018, to participate in the upcoming Paralympics to be held from March 9-18. (Yonhap)
President Moon Jae-in and first lady Kim Jung-sook raise their hands in hurrah after a march in front of the Seodaemun Prison History Hall in Seoul on March 1, 2018. The day marked the 99th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement Day when people started nationwide rallies to demand Korea’s independence from Japanese colonial rule. The Seodaemun Prison is where many independence fighters were jailed and martyred. (Yonhap)
Lawmakers pass a motion reducing the country’s maximum statutory working hours to 52 hours a week from the current 68 hours in a vote during a plenary session at the National Assembly in Seoul on Feb. 28, 2018. (Yonhap)
Unionized workers of GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of General Motors Co., call for the retraction of a GM decision to close GM Korea’s factory in Gunsan, 274 km south of Seoul, during a protest held amid rain near the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on Feb. 28, 2018. On Feb. 13, GM announced it would close the Gunsan car assembly plant, citing low productivity. (Yonhap)
Members from the conservative Liberty Korea Party, including LKP leader Hong Joon-pyo (4th from L, front row), hold a rally to criticize a visit by Kim Yong-chol, the chief of the eight-member North Korean delegation, at Cheonggye Plaza in Seoul on Feb. 26, 2018. Kim is an alleged mastermind of a 2010 North Korean torpedo attack on the South Korean corvette Cheonan that killed 46 sailors. (Yonhap)
