Category: Picture of the Day

Landing vehicles of the Marine Corps’s 2nd division in Ganghwa, west of Seoul, demonstrate a landing operation during a parliamentary on-site inspection on Oct. 30, 2017. (Yonhap)

A group of children wearing the costume of “haenyeo,” female divers on South Korea’s southern Jeju Island, wait for their turn at an event to mark the anniversary of the listing of haenyeo as a UNESCO cultural heritage at a park in Seoul on Oct. 30, 2017. The listing was decided at the U.N. culture body’s meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Dec. 1, 2016. (Yonhap)

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory in this photo released by the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency on Oct. 29, 2017.  (Yonhap)

South Korean singer and actress Son Dam-bi poses for the camera during a publicity event for a cable channel program in Seoul on Oct. 27, 2017. (Yonhap)

Visitors enjoy themselves at the newly opened Marvel Experience in the southeastern port city of Busan, Asia’s first Marvel hall that provides virtual and augmented reality experiences and 4-D videos, on Oct. 26, 2017. (Yonhap)

A group of Biafrans calls for the Nigerian government to stop the suppression of ethnic Biafrans in the eastern states of the African nation during a news conference in downtown Seoul on Oct. 26, 2017. Biafra declared independence in 1967, which led to two and a half years of civil war, and was reintegrated into Nigeria after the war. (Yonhap)

USS Ronald Reagan leaves South Korea’s southeastern port of Busan on Oct. 26, 2017. The aircraft carrier entered the port on Oct. 21 in the wake of North Korea’s sixth nuclear test. (Yonhap)

Protesters create the message “Arrest MB” with candles during a rally in downtown Seoul on Oct. 21, 2017. MB refers to former President Lee Myung-bak, who is accused of oppressing the media, artists, politicians and other prominent figures critical of him, using the intelligence agency as the controlling tool. Oct. 29 marks the first anniversary of the candlelight protest that led to the ouster of Lee’s successor, Park Geun-hye. (Yonhap)

American golfer Justin Thomas poses with his trophy after winning the inaugural CJ Cup @Nine Bridges on Jeju Island on Oct. 22, 2017. Thomas won the first PGA Tour event in South Korea in a playoff against Marc Leishman from Australia. (Yonhap)

A mounted archer shoots an arrow during an international horseback archery competition in Sokcho on South Korea’s east coast on Oct. 20, 2017. (Yonhap)