This undated Yonhap file photo shows Lee Boo-jin (L), president of Hotel Shilla, and Sky Park, vice chairwoman of E-Land Group, whom Forbes magazine has put on its annual list of Asia’s 50 Powerful Businesswomen in 2016 on April 7. (Yonhap)
Unionists and civic group members rally in downtown Seoul on April 6, 2016, demanding that the minimum wage be raised to 10,000 won (US$8.66) to guarantee basic livelihood. The rally took place a day ahead of the first meeting this year of a panel that reviews minimum wage. The minimum pay was set at 6,030 won for 2016, and the usual increase rate is 7 to 8 percent. (Yonhap)
A group of guests, including the chief of naval operations, poses in front of the new submarine Hong Beom-do during its launch ceremony at a Hyundai Heavy Industries dockyard in the country’s southeastern city of Ulsan on April 5, 2016. The 1,800-ton, diesel-electric vessel, armed with torpedoes and guided missiles, can navigate at a maximum speed of 20 knots. (Yonhap)
Soldiers line up for consulting at a job fair for soldiers finishing their mandatory military service this year, at KINTEX Convention Center in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, Mar. 30. (Hankyoreh)
Environmental activists wearing Pinocchio masks demonstrate in Seoul against Volkswagen AG on April 1, 2016, demanding the German automaker pay due compensation for its faked emissions test results. (Yonhap)
A model stands beside the CRF 1000L Africa Twin motorbike, manufactured by Japan’s Honda Motor Co., during a motorbike exhibition at the Convention and Exhibition Center in Seoul on March 31, 2016. It marks the first time for the new motorbike to be showcased in the South Korean market. (Yonhap)
Miss Korea 2015 Lee Min-ji (C) poses for a photo alongside runners-up Kim Jung-jin (L) and Kim Ye-rin during a ceremony in Seoul on March 28, 2016, to mark their appointments as honorary ambassadors for the Military Manpower Administration. (Yonhap)
Lee Jun-seok (C) answers questions during a special hearing on the 2014 sinking of the ferry Sewol held in Seoul City Hall on March 28, 2016. Lee, 70, has been sentenced to life in prison for willfully neglecting his duty as a captain to evacuate passengers when the ferry sank off the southwest coast on April 16, leaving 304 people dead. (Yonhap)
Members of conservative groups in South Korea launch large plastic balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the air in their bid to send them into North Korea in the border town of Paju on March 28, 2016, a campaign that is strongly opposed by the North. (Yonhap)
Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn shakes hands with a robot participating in the final selection contest for Imagine Cup 2016 at a Seoul university on March 25, 2016. Imagine Cup is an annual competition sponsored and hosted by Microsoft Corp. that brings together young technologists from around the world. (Yonhap)
