South Korean actress Lee Young-ae, who stars in the new drama “Saimdang, Memoir of Colors,” poses during a publicity event in Seoul on Jan. 24, 2017. The first episode of the drama will be aired by the SBS TV network on Jan. 26. (Yonhap)
Kim Ki-choon, an ex-presidential chief of staff, appears before the office of the independent counsel in Seoul on Jan. 22, 2017. (Yonhap)
Former Culture Minister Cho Yoon-sun appears before the office of the independent counsel in Seoul on Jan. 22, 2017. (Yonhap)
Flanked by two bodyguards, a wax figure of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is unveiled at the Grevin Museum in central Seoul on Jan. 20, 2017. The museum opened its “Air Force One” zone, a replica of the office area of the U.S. presidential plane, to the public to mark Trump’s inauguration. (Yonhap)
Members of the Labor Party hold a rally in front of President Park Geun-hye’s private house in southern Seoul on Jan. 16, 2017, to call on the special prosecutor team to raid it as part of an investigation into Park’s alleged involvement in a corruption scandal that led to her impeachment. (Yonhap)
Choe Ryong-hae, North Korea’s virtual No. 2 man and vice chairman of the State Affairs Commission, arrives at an airport in Pyongyang after attending the inaugural ceremony of the Nicaraguan president as a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in this photo captured from the North’s Central TV Broadcasting Station on Jan. 16, 2017. (Yonhap)
In this image captured from video footage of North Korea’s Korean Central Television on Jan. 18, 2017, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un walks with a limp during a visit to a children’s camp in Kangwon Province. In 2014, Kim was reported to have received an operation to remove a cyst from his right ankle. The recent video footage, released the previous day, raises speculation that his condition has recurred. (Yonhap)
An otter walks on the frozen Eomcheon River in Hamyang, a town in South Korea’s southeastern province of South Gyeongsang, on Jan. 16, 2017, in this photo released by the Hamyang municipality. The otter, an endangered animal, is designated as the country’s Natural Monument No. 330. (Yonhap)
