Visitors cross a suspension bridge over Mount Sogeum in the city of Wonju, northeast of Seoul, on Jan. 11, 2018, in this photo released by the Wonju municipality. The 200-meter-long Mount Sogeum Suspension Bridge opened on that day and is the longest bridge in South Korea’s mountains, leading to a 100-meter-high rock mountaintop. (Yonhap)
Kevin Martin (R), vice president for mobile and global access policy at Facebook, arrives at the government complex in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, on Jan. 10, 2018, to meet with Korea Communications Commission chief Lee Hyo-seong. (Yonhap)
Models show off Samsung Electronics Co.’s modular TV, dubbed “The Wall,” at a convention center in Las Vegas on Jan. 7, 2018, two days ahead of the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show. The 146-inch TV, which Samsung says is the first of its kind in the world, uses MicroLED technology to produce its picture. (Yonhap)
Members of the ship salvage unit of the Navy’s First Fleet run before a maritime rescue drill off the eastern coastal city of Gangneung on Jan. 8, 2018, in this photo provided by the fleet. The drill is meant to help ensure the safe and successful hosting of the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Paralympics. (Yonhap)
Foreign tourists show off a trout that they caught on a frozen river in Hongcheon, some 100 kilometers east of Seoul, on Jan. 5, 2018, the opening day of an annual trout fishing festival. (Yonhap)
This photo taken from North Korea’s Central TV Station on Jan. 4, 2018, shows Pyongyangites holding a mass rally at Kim Il-sung Square to express their resolution to carry out the important tasks advanced by respected leader Kim Jong-un in his New Year’s Day address. (Yonhap)
FA-50 fighters fly over the main venue for the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Jan. 1, 2018, in this photo released by the Air Force. (Yonhap)
A new conscript gives a deep bow toward his parents during a ceremony at a boot camp in the city of Nonsan, 213 kilometers south of Seoul, on Jan. 2, 2018, to mark the camp’s reception of recruits for the first time this year. All able-bodied South Korean males are required to serve almost two years in the military. (Yonhap)
North Korea’s calendar for 2018 is featured in this photo obtained by Yonhap on Dec. 27, 2017. The calendar has different views each month of Pyongyang’s Ryomyong Street that the country bills as a model and standard of modern architecture with high-rise apartments. (Yonhap)
Participants, along with a girl statue symbolizing a “comfort woman,” sit on 300 chairs placed at Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul in a performance themed “A Promise Inscribed on an Empty Chair” after finishing this year’s final weekly rally in front of the Japanese Embassy on Dec. 27, 2017, calling for Japan’s apology for its army’s sexual enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Korean women during World War II. Such victims are euphemistically called “comfort women.” Portraits of late comfort women and chrysanthemums are placed on the chairs. (Yonhap)
