Using only an LG Electronics cordless vacuum cleaner, two-time U.S. rock climbing champion Sierra Blair-Coyle scales a 33-story skyscraper in Songdo, west of Seoul, on April 27, 2016, in this photo provided on May 23 by the company. LG said the 22-year-old female climber has succeeded in climbing the 140-meter-tall building carrying two LG Cord Zero Cykings on her back and using their suction power. (Yonhap)
Lt. Cdr. Lee Sung-chun, a member of the 20th contingent of the 300-member Cheonghae Unit, lifts his daughter into the air in joy after a ceremony at a naval base in the southeastern port city of Busan on May 20, 2016, to mark the unit’s return from a six-month mission to combat piracy aboard the destroyer Choi Young off the coast of Somalia. (Yonhap)
A firefighter battles a fire that engulfed a building inside a U.S. military base, Camp Carroll, in the southeastern city of Chilgok on May 19, 2016, after multiple gas explosions took place at the base. No casualties were reported, although the explosions caused debris to fly and hit other buildings inside the base. Firefighting authorities said the incident was caused by the combustion of nitrogen and oxygen. (Yonhap)
Mark Lippert (L), the United States ambassador to South Korea, speaks to students of Jeju National University at a sea wall in Seogwipo, Jeju Island, on May 15, 2016. Lippert also attended the Jeju Food & Wine Festival and met with Jeju Governor Won Hee-ryong. (Yonhap)
A Chinese male (C) suspected of killing a Chinese woman on Jeju Island in late 2015 is brought to the Seogwipo Police Station by police officers in Seogwipo, Jeju Island, on May 15, 2016, for further investigation of the murder case. The body of the dead woman was discovered in April. [Yonhap]
Chinese vessels are seen fishing illegally in South Korean waters near an island close to the inter-Korean maritime border in the West Sea on May 10, 2010, in this photo provided by the Onjin county office that administers the island. Officials say more than 180 Chinese boats were fishing illegally in the area on the same day. (Yonhap)
A senior student photographs herself and her friends after having their graduation album photos taken at Ewha Womans University in Seoul on May 9, 2016. (Yonhap)
Army Gen. Lee Sun-jin (L), chairman of South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks with Gen. Vincent Brooks, the new commander of U.S. Forces Korea as they inspect a honor guard during a ceremony at the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command in Seoul on May 10, 2016, to welcome the U.S. military leader, who also heads the command. (Yonhap)
Soldiers remove broken vinyl greenhouses in Goseong County, Gangwon Province, on May 8, 2016. Some 540 of the total 772 greenhouses in the region were damaged by strong winds that struck the region on Wednesday. The Army’s 22nd Division has deployed some 700 troops to help get rid of the damaged greenhouses. (Yonhap)
South Korean President Park Geun-hye (R) poses for a photo with Kuwait’s Prime Minister Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah during their meeting at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on May 9, 2016. Jaber arrived in Seoul the previous day at the invitation of South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn. South Korea is the fourth leg of his five-nation trip to Asia that includes Bangladesh, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Japan. (Yonhap)
