This photo provided by KT Sat, a satellite service arm of KT Corp., on May 5, 2017, shows South Korea’s fourth telecommunications satellite, named the Mugunghwa-7, being launched from the Guiana Space Center at Kourou in French Guiana. (Yonhap)
Shown is a tower crane that collided with another crane at a Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province, on May 1, 2017, to kill six people and injure 19 others. (Yonhap)
A stone tower of peace stands on the roadside in Seongju, 296 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on May 3, 2017, as a symbol of protest against the deployment of the U.S. THAAD missile defense system in the county. (Yonhap)
Presidential front-runner Moon Jae-in of the main opposition party calls for early voting on May 3, 2017, which will take place on May 4-5, at 3,500 polling stations across the country in an event held at the party headquarters in Yeouido, southwestern Seoul. (Yonhap)
A couple in their 30s were killed when a large construction truck fell sideways, crushing the couple’s minivan in Naju, South Jeolla Province, on April 29, 2017. (Yonhap)
Residents of Soseong Village, North Gyeongsang Province hold a press conference calling for the US to make a formal apology for a soldier who was seen smiling as he used his mobile phone to film residents protesting the deployment of the THAAD missile defense system, Apr. 28. [Hankyoreh]
A marathoner runs in a marathon event scaling the 123-story Lotte World Tower in southeastern Seoul on April 23, 2017. Participants raced up the 500-meter 2,917 stairs from the ground floor to the observatory on the top floor of the country’s tallest building. (Yonhap)
A Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense battery launcher is being installed on a former golf course in Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province on Wednesday. /Yonhap
Korean War veterans from the British Commonwealth lay flowers during a ceremony at the War Memorial Hall in Seoul on the occasion of the anniversary of Anzac Day on April 25, 2017. Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. Britain and 15 other nations fought for South Korea against invading North Korea under the U.N. flag during the 1950-53 war. The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs (MPBA) invited them. (Photo courtesy of MPBA) (Yonhap)
A U-2 ultra-high altitude reconnaissance aircraftlands at the the U.S. air force’s Osan air base, south of Seoul, after a mission on April 24, 2017, one day ahead of the anniversary of the foundation of the North Korean army. Concerns are mounting on the possibility of the North’s sixth nuclear test on the occasion of the anniversary. (Yonhap)
