Category: Picture of the Day

Firefighters show off their muscles during their bodybuilding contest in Suwon, west of Seoul, on April 11, 2017. (Yonhap)

Marathoners run on a street in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on April 9, 2017, held to mark the April 15 birth anniversary of the country’s late founder Kim Il-sung, in this photo provided by the Korean Central News Agency. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)

Labor activists unveil the model of a statue symbolizing Korean laborers forcibly taken abroad by the imperialist Japan during World War II at the Yongsan Station Square in western Seoul on April 6, 2017. They called for the government to allow them to set up the statue at the square on the Aug. 15 Independence Day. Early this year, the nation’s two largest umbrella labor unions unsuccessfully tried to establish the statue there on the March 1 Independence Movement Day. The government disapproved the demand, saying the square is state land. Up to 1.4 million Koreans are estimated to have been forced to work at coal mines, factories and construction sites abroad from 1939-45, when Korea was a Japanese colony. (Yonhap)

People form a long queue to enter a newly opened Shake Shack store in Seoul on April 6, 2017. The store is the third of its kind in Seoul. Shake Shack is an American fast restaurant chain based in New York. (Yonhap)

South and North Korean players compete at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women’s World Championship Division II Group A at Gangneung Hockey Centre in the namesake city, 237 kilometers east of Seoul, on April 6, 2017. The South shut out the North 3-0. (Yonhap)

Via a reader tip comes picture of Seoul sometime between 1956-1963.  More photographs can be viewed at this link.

Hikers climb a snow-covered mountain in PyeongChang, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul, on April 1, 2017. (Yonhap)

A semisubmersible ship carrying the Sewol ferry, lifted from where it sank some three years ago in the country’s southwestern waters, arrives at a port in Mokpo, some 100 kilometers away, on March 31, 2017. The doomed ship will be put into a dry dock, and a search will begin to find the remains of nine people still missing from the sinking on April 16, 2014, who are among the 304 killed in the tragedy. (Yonhap)

A North Korean TV announcer reports on the arrest of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye on March 31, 2017. Most of the North’s state-run media outlets reported the news about 13 hours after Park’s arrest, calling it a stern punishment by history and popular sentiment. (KCNA-Yonhap)

This photo, taken on March 29, 2017, shows a cupful of puffy cereal soaked in liquid nitrogen that a tourist bought from an eatery in Seoul. The dessert, called Dragon’s Breath, makes the people who eat it exhale smoky nitrogen vapor. (Yonhap)