Visiting U.S. Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning (C) poses with U.S. soldiers in front of Patriot PAC-3 advanced missiles during a visit to the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade of the U.S. Forces Korea’s (USFK) Eighth Army in Osan, south of Seoul, on Aug. 2, 2016. The brigade in charge of intercepting North Korean missiles is expected to run the THAAD missile defense system to be deployed in the country’s southeastern town of Seongju as well. THAAD stands for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense. (Yonhap)
Seoul’s summer hotspot, Yeouido Hangang Park was the venue for the 2016 Water Fight Festival held in the city as part of the annual, summer long, Han River Festival. The event was held across two weekends and is a fun way to cool down in Seoul’s famously hot and humid summer if you don’t mind getting wet! Teams were divided by blood type and set against each other using water guns and water balloons in addition to a program of live music. [Flickr]
South Korean archer Ki Bo-bae, a double gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics, checks her smartphone at Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 29, 2016, as she arrives to compete at the upcoming Rio de Janeiro Olympics. (Yonhap)
Women dressed as animation characters, known as “cosplay,” pose for a photo at the 19th Bucheon International Comics Festival in the city of Bucheon, west of Seoul, on July 27, 2016. The festival that opened the same day will run through July 31. (Yonhap)
People from veterans’ groups and other conservative bodies chant slogans as they take part in a rally in front of Seoul Station on July 27, 2016, to support the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system, known as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), in the town of Seongju, a county some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul. The rally came on the heels of a July 13 decision by South Korea and the United States to deploy a THAAD battery in the town to counter North Korea’s missile threats. (Yonhap)
Braving the drizzly rain and holding up the flags of the 67 nations that supported South Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War, members of a local pro-peace civic group march in a street in central Seoul on July 27, 2016, to express their gratitude to the countries. The march was timed with the 63rd anniversary of the signing of a truce that ended the conflict. (Yonhap)
Health officials conduct fumigation to control mosquitoes at a sports park in a residential neighborhood in eastern Seoul on July 25, 2016. (Yonhap)
Mud-covered New Zealand’s Ambassador to South Korea Clare Fearnley (C) pretends to be trapped inside a mud prison at the Daecheon Beach Mud Plaza in the city of Boryeong on South Korea’s west coast on July 22, 2016, as she takes part in the Boryeong Mud Festival, which opened on July 16 and will run through July 24. Boryeong mud is rich in natural minerals and is known to prevent skin aging. (Yonhap)
People play the “Pokemon Go” mobile game on July 22, 2016, at Ganjeol Cape, the point on the coast of Ulsan in southeastern South Korea where the new year’s sunrise can be viewed the earliest on the Korean Peninsula. (Yonhap)
This photo, captured from China’s top social networking service Weibo on July 22, 2016, shows a North Korean Air Koryo jet bound for Beijing from Pyongyang parked on the tarmac of an airport in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang after making an emergency landing there due to a fire. (Yonhap)
