Category: Picture of the Day

A sign announces the start of “Lotte Black Festa” at the headquarters of Lotte Department Store in downtown Seoul on Nov. 17, 2017. (Yonhap)

Choo Mi-ae, leader of the ruling Democratic Party, holds the hands of a “comfort woman” statue at Museum of Korean American Heritage in New York on Nov. 17, 2017 (New York time). Comfort women refer to those who were forcibly taken to Japanese front-line military brothels during World War II. (Yonhap)

A customer places a preorder for U.S. tech giant Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone X smartphone at a branch of mobile carrier KT in Seoul on Nov. 17, 2017. South Korea’s mobile carriers said their first preorder batch of iPhone X smartphones were sold out within a few minutes after being launched, apparently due to supply shortages. (Yonhap)

A medical professional describes the worms found inside the body of the North Korean soldier who underwent surgery at a hospital in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, on Nov. 15, 2017. The soldier suffered serious injuries from being shot by North Korean soldiers while defecting to South Korea through the truce village of Panmunjom the previous day. (Yonhap)

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un drives a tractor while touring a factory. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported the story on Nov. 15, 2017, without elaborating on the timing of the visit. (Yonhap)

Shown is a 4.2-meter-tall statue of former President Park Chung-hee made by his supporters to be installed at President Park Chung-hee Memorial Foundation in western Seoul. The group of supporters delivered a certificate to the foundation on Nov. 13, 2017, indicating that it will donate the statue. (Yonhap)

A group of supporters of former President Park Geun-hye stages a rally on a street in Seoul on Nov. 14, 2017, demanding the release of Park who has been on trial for alleged bribery and a few other charges for the past several months after her impeachment. (Yonhap)

In this photo released by the Army, an Apache attack helicopter launches a Hellfire air-to-surface missile toward the Jik Islet bombing range off Gunsan on South Korea’s western coast on Nov. 13, as the South Korean Army carries out its first live-fire exercise involving the firing of Hellfire air-to-surface missiles in a bid to beef up its capability to fight in the air. (Yonhap)

Veterans and their families of the 1950-53 Korean War, alongside South Korean soldiers, offer a one-minute silent prayer at the U.N. Memorial Cemetery in the southern port city of Busan on Nov. 11, 2017, to pay tribute to U.N. troops killed in the conflict. Organized by the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, the Turn Toward Busan ceremony was simultaneously held in 21 other countries that fought for the South Korean side against invading North Korea under the U.N. flag in the three-year conflict. (Yonhap)

Some leaders of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum — (clockwise from R, 1st row) South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern — attend a group photo session during this year’s APEC summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on Nov. 11, 2017. (Yonhap)