Category: Picture of the Day

This photo, provided by the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae on May 14, 2017, shows President Moon Jae-in taking care of his cat ‘Jjingjjingi.’ (Yonhap)

Models display cool pants ahead of the upcoming summer season at a Lotte Mart outlet in Seoul on May 11, 2017. (Yonhap)

This photo, taken on May 12, 2017, shows a banner saying “Congratulating Alumnus Moon Jae-in for being Elected 19th President” hanging from the gate of Kyunghee University, the alma mater of President Moon Jae-in who studied law at the school. (Yonhap)

This photo, released by the (North) Korean Central TV Station on May 10, 2017, is a composite of satellite images which the North claims show a golf course in South Korea’s southeastern county of Seongju where an advanced U.S. missile defense system, dubbed the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, has been deployed. (Yonhap)

Actor Lee Min-ho began working at a social welfare center in southern Seoul on Friday as a substitute for his mandatory military service.

Wearing a black mask and dressed in black pants and a gray jacket, he arrived at the Gangnam Ward Office around 8:45 a.m. Hundreds of fans were waiting for him.

He was ordered to fulfill his duty as a public service worker due to the injuries he sustained in two car accidents, in 2006 and 2011, according to his management agency MYM Entertainment. [Yonhap]

This is a house on South Korea’s southeastern Geoje Island where newly elected President Moon Jae-in was born. The house is currently used for storage by a neighbor. (Yonhap)

The side of a mountain in Samcheok, 290 km east of Seoul, shows the burned scars of a man-made forest fire. (Yonhap)

This photo taken on May 8, 2017, shows a fire-fighting helicopter that made an emergency landing in Samcheok, 290 kilometers east of Seoul, on the day. A maintenance worker who was on board the helicopter fell unconscious and later died after being taken to a nearby hospital. (Yonhap)

Residents from the southeastern town of Seongju and nearby Gimcheon rally in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on May 8, 2017, to urge the U.S. Army to stop introducing equipment for the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system to a former golf course in Seongju. They were blocked from presenting a basket of melons (front) to the embassy, as quality melons are a specialty produced in Seongju. In April, U.S. troops began deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense near the town, about 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul. (Yonhap)

A set of photos carried by the Rodong Sinmun, North Korea’s main newspaper, on May 5, 2017, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspecting military detachments on two islets in waters off the country’s southwest front. (Yonhap)