Category: Picture of the Day

A Seoulite enjoys a siesta at Seoul Road 7017 on June 13, 2017. Seoul city arranged the siesta program for office workers. (Yonhap)

Britney Spears performs at her first concert in Korea to a 18,000-seat full house audience at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on June 10, 2017. The last time she visited Korea was in December 2003 to promote her fourth album. (Photo provided by iMe KOREA) (Yonhap)

This is an aerial view of the Hwaseong Dream Park, a youth baseball complex in Hwaseong, west of Seoul, that opened on June 9, 2017. The 242,000-square-meter complex, Asia’s biggest, houses eight ballparks, including four for players in elementary school and one for female players. (Yonhap)

South Korean rapper T.O.P, a member of the South Korean boy band Big Bang, is being moved on a wheelchair from Ewha Womans University Medical Center in western Seoul to another hospital for recovery on June 9, 2017. He was treated at the hospital’s emergency room after he fell into a coma due to a drug overdose on June 6. (Yonhap)

The New Zealand Navy frigate Te Kaha arrives at South Korea’s port city of Busan on June 9, 2017, after a drill in Southeast Asia. The 3,600-ton vessel is armed with a 50-inch 54 caliber gun, Mk 41 vertical launch system for surface-to-air missiles, a Phalanx close-in weapons system and Mk 46 torpedoes. Te Kaha sailors will engage in various friendship activities with South Korea’s Navy personnel before departing on June 13. (Yonhap)

Constitutional Court Chief nominee Kim Yi-su (L) apologizes to bus driver Bae Yong-joo for sentencing him to death about 40 years ago prior to his confirmation hearing at the National Assembly in Seoul on June 8, 2017. Then military judge Kim handed down the capital punishment to Bae for killing four policemen when driving his bus carrying civilian militia members though a police cordon during a pro-democracy movement on May 20, 1980. (Yonhap)

This is a life-size model of a new bullet train on display in the square in front of Changwon Station in Changwon, 398 km southeast of Seoul, on June 7, 2017. Korea Railroad Corp. and Hyundai Rotem, a train-making unit of Hyundai Motor Group, have developed the electric multiple unit train for the first time in the country. (Yonhap)

Officials at the Korean National Red Cross in Seoul check a database on inter-Korean families separated during the 1950-53 Korean War on June 5, 2017, when the speaker and ruling and opposition floor leaders agreed to seek their reunion on the Aug. 15 Independence Day. (Yonhap)

An employee at KEB-Hana Bank in Seoul checks the U.S. greenback supply on June 15, 2016, when the Bank of Korea announced that the country’s foreign exchange reserves hit a record high of $378.46 billion in May, up $1.89 billion from the previous month. (Yonhap)