Women dressed as animation characters, known as “cosplayers,” pose for a photo at the 20th Bucheon International Comics Festival in the city of Bucheon, west of Seoul, on July 19, 2017. The festival that opened the same day will run through July 23. (Yonhap)
This photo, taken on July 20, 2017, shows structures resembling sunny side up eggs and a melted road cone displayed in front of a department store in the southeastern city of Daegu as South Korea remains gripped by a heat wave. (Yonhap)
Hong Joon-pyo (R), leader of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, shakes hands with Kim Jong-pil, a former prime minister and retired conservative icon, at a hospital in Seoul on July 18, 2017. Kim, 91, has been hospitalized to undergo a medical checkup. (Yonhap)
Maj. Gen. Scott Mcqueen (L), the new commander of the 2nd U.S. Infantry Division, and his predecessor, Maj. Gen. Theodore Martin, pose for a photo during a ceremony at Camp Casey in the city of Dongducheon, north of Seoul, on July 18, 2017, to mark the division chief’s inauguration and Martin’s departure. (Yonhap)
Visitors look at a giant beetle sculpture on display at the KINTEX exhibition hall, northwest of Seoul, on July 14, 2017, as the World Insect Fair opened for a run till Aug. 20, featuring 30,000 live insects, including 100 rare ones. (Yonhap)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un takes part in a ceremony at Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang to praise the officials who contributed to what the North said was the successful launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, in this photo released by North Korea’s state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper on July 13, 2017. (Yonhap)
South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon (L) meets with Acting U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Marc Knapper at his office in the government complex in Seoul on July 14, 2017. (Yonhap)
Lt. Gen. Thomas Vandal, commander of the Eighth U.S. Army in South Korea, and other participants salute the statue of Gen. Walton Walker, the first Eighth Army commanding general during the Korean War, as they attend a ceremony at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, on July 11, 2017, to mark the relocation of the Eighth Army’s headquarters to the camp from Seoul’s Yongsan Garrison. (Yonhap)
A member of Save Korean Dogs, an activist group opposing the dog meat trade, stages a solo rally in Seoul on July 11, 2017, to express the group’s objection to eating dog meat and call for the government to enact a law prohibiting dog-meat consumption. (Yonhap)
A police officer uses a device in a bathroom at the Han River Pool in Seoul on July 11, 2017, to detect whether there is a hidden camera as part of efforts to rid public places of privacy infringement. (Yonhap)
