Sit-in protest at comfort woman statue ends after 10 years This undated photo, provided by the civic group “Anti-Japan,” shows the Statue of Peace, a comfort woman statue, in front of the former Japanese Embassy in central Seoul. Members of the civic group vacated their sit-in site next to the statue on July 20, 2025, 10 years after the group began its protest in opposition to the December 2015 South Korea–Japan agreement on wartime sexual slavery victims. (Yonhap)
Unification Church facility raided in probe into ex-first lady This photo, taken July 18, 2025, shows the Unification Church’s Seoul headquarters in the capital’s Yongsan Ward, which investigators from Special Prosecutor Min Joong-ki’s team raided the same day to secure evidence in connection with the alleged acceptance of luxury goods by Kim Keon Hee, wife of former President Yoon Suk Yeol, from the religious group three years ago. (Yonhap)
Heavy rain damage A destroyed CU convenience store outlet operated by BGF Retail Co. is inundated following heavy rain in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province, on July 20, 2025. (Yonhap)
Mount Kumgang’s addition to UNESCO World Heritage list This photo, released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on July 16, 2025, shows a view of scenic Mount Kumgang on the country’s east coast that the North’s state media reported was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list following the decision’s announcement on July 13. (Yonhap)
N.K. leader inspects offshore farm under construction This photo, released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on July 14, 2025, shows the construction site for an offshore farm in the town of Ragwon, North Hamgyong Province, which the North’s leader Kim Jong-un inspected the previous day. (Yonhap)
Russian FM returns home after N. Korea visit Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) shakes hands with his North Korean counterpart, Choe Son-hui, as he leaves an airport in North Korea’s eastern coastal city of Wonsan on July 13, 2025, following his three-day trip to the North for meetings with Choe and the North’s leader Kim Jong-un, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency the next day. (Yonhap)
Supporters of ex-President Yoon Supporters of former President Yoon Suk Yeol stage a rally calling for his release outside Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, just south of Seoul, on July 12, 2025. Yoon was detained after a Seoul court issued a warrant for his arrest on July 10 over his failed martial law bid. (Yonhap)
N. Korea marks 31st anniv. of founder’s death North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C, front) visits the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang on July 8, 2025, to pay tribute to his grandfather and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, as the communist country marks the 31st anniversary of the former leader’s death the same day, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency. The mausoleum enshrines the mummified bodies of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, the current leader’s father. (Yonhap)
Repatriation of 6 N. Koreans rescued at sea A wooden boat carrying six North Korean residents moves northward in the East Sea on July 9, 2025, as South Korea repatriated them via the inter-Korean maritime border, months after they had drifted into southern waters and were rescued, in this photo provided by the unification ministry. (Yonhap)
