Category: Picture of the Day

South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her French counterpart Francois Hollande clink their glasses during a toast at Elysee Palace in Paris on June 4, 2016. (Yonhap)

Foreign tourists wearing military uniforms and berets like those of Special Forces Capt. Yoo Si-jin in the mega-hit South Korean drama “Descendants of the Sun” pose for a photo at the Seoul Global Culture Experience Center in Seoul on June 3, 2016. The photo zone runs from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. (Yonhap)

Members of the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union form a human chain around the building housing the finance ministry in Sejong, south of Seoul, on June 3, 2016, to protest against the introduction of a performance-based pay system. The government is pushing the system as part of economic and labor reforms. (Yonhap)

Foreigners plants rice in a paddy at Changdeok Palace in Seoul on June 1, 2016. The event was arranged so they could experience a Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) ritual, in which kings plant rice to see how the annual rice farming fared. (Yonhap)

This photo shows new summer uniforms for South Korean policemen, who will sport them starting June 1, 2016. The new uniform is made of the latest materials and is focused on enhancing reliability and wearability, the National Policy Agency said May 29. The colors of the upper-wear are different for normal police and traffic police, with greenish navy for normal police and ivory white for traffic police. (Yonhap)

A group of activists are floating a large balloon containing leaflets from Paju, north of Seoul, on May 28, 2016, to denounce North Korea’s sudden water discharge from Imjin River, located just north of the western demilitarized zone. This photo is provided by Fighters for Free Korea, an activist group composed of North Korean defectors. (Yonhap)

This photo released by the Defense Acquisition Procurement Administration (DAPA) on May 26, 2016, shows an AH-64E Apache Guardian helicopter parked on the tarmac at an undisclosed Army base on May 26, 2016. The DAPA delivered four AH-64Es to the South Korean Army, the first batch of 36 AH-64Es it plans to introduce in a US$1.6 billion deal. (Yonhap)

Firefighters put out a fire on a Korean Air plane on the runway of Haneda Airport in Tokyo on May 27, 2016, in this photo released by Kyodo News. The left wing of the plane bound for Seoul caught fire before takeoff, but all 319 passengers and crew were safely evacuated, according to the Japanese news agency. (Yonhap)

A herd of cattle is put out to pasture in Daegwallyeong Pass in PyeongChang, a mountainous town in South Korea’s northeast province of Gangwon, on May 26, 2016. The cattle will be left in the meadow, run by the Rural Development Administration’s “hanwoo” cattle test center, for the next 180 days. (Yonhap)

Flanked by police officers, the suspect behind the brutal murder of a 23-year-old woman enters a karaoke bar near a subway station in Seoul’s upscale Gangnam district on May 24, 2016, to stage a reconstruction. The 34-year-old man fatally knifed the victim in the bar’s bathroom a week ago in an alleged random crime, whipping up a nationwide outpouring of mourning. (Yonhap)