In this photo provided by Daegu Metropolitan City, a Korean woman shows a group of foreign tourists the way to pack herbal medicines in paper during the 2016 Daegu Yangnyeongsi Herbal Medicine Festival on May 8, 2016. (Yonhap)
Visitors to Gyeongbok Palace in downtown Seoul wear protective masks after fine dust warnings were issued across South Korea on May 7, 2016. (Yonhap)
I recently stumbled upon some high quality color photos of a leper village in South Korea during the Korean War:
According to the discussion in the Flickr comments section the leper village was in Daejon. Eventually the Korean government would round up and move all leprosy patients to Sorokdo Island. What a horrible disease to have, but fortunately today there is treatment for the disease and thus very rare.
A U.S. soldier places a flower on a memorial altar for 10 brave fallen soldiers in the South Korean border city of Paju, north of Seoul, on May 4, 2016. The government marked the 67th anniversary of their deaths the same day. On May 4, 1949, the 10 commandoes from the Army’s 1st Division rushed forward carrying bombs in their arms toward North Korean trenches in the area around Mount Songak in the city of Gaesong, destroying the trenches and themselves and playing a decisive role in the South retaking the area. (Yonhap)
This provided photo shows a fisherman posing for a photo with a giant sea eel, measuring 185 centimeters in length and 35 centimeters in width, at a port on Chuja Island near South Korea’s largest island of Jeju on May 4, 2016. The sea fish weighed 18.5 kilograms and was caught in waters off the island the same day. (Yonhap)
South Korean President Park Geun-hye meets with young Iranians in traditional Korean dresses, who visited a Korean culture exhibition held at a convention center in Tehran on May 2, 2016. Earlier in the day, Park held the first bilateral summit since the establishment of their diplomatic ties in 1962. (Yonhap)
U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Mark Lippert (C), escorted by Suwon Mayor Yeom Tae-young (R), looks around the Hwaseong Haenggung Palace in Suwon, west of Seoul, on April 29, 2016. The palace is part of Hwaseong Fortress, which was designated as a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1997. King Jeongjo, the 22nd monarch of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), built the fortress in memory of his late father Sado. (Yonhap)
A crowd of protesters rally for improvements in South Korean labor law in a public demonstration organized by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the country’s second-largest umbrella union, in downtown Seoul on May 1, 2016. (Yonhap)
A woman walks past a sign that states that smoking is not allowed within 10 meters from every subway entrance in Seoul from May 1, 2016. Violators will be fined up to 100,000 won (approximately US$88) from Sept. 1 after a four-month guidance period. (Yonhap)
This is an artist’s rendering of the second passenger terminal under construction at Incheon International Airport, a main gateway to Seoul. Its topping-out ceremony was held on April 26, 2016. With the completion of the new terminal, located right next to the existing one, next year, the airport will be able to handle 72 million passengers and 5.8 million tons of air cargo per year. (Yonhap)
