A family member of a victim of the Daegu subway fire in 2003 weeps at a memorial held on Feb. 18, 2016. A man with a history of mental illness set a subway car on fire in the morning of Feb. 18, 2003. The blaze quickly spread to a train on the opposite track, killing 192 people and injuring 148 others. (Yonhap)
Korean Air Lines planes are visible outside a window at a departure gate of Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Feb. 19, 2016. Unionized pilots of South Korea’s No. 1 carrier voted for a strike on the day which, if carried out, would be the first in 11 years. The pilots demanded a 37 percent wage hike, while the management offered a 1.9 percent increase. The union said it is not planning on an immediate walkout, but will gradually raise the strike participation level depending on how talks proceed with the management. (Yonhap)
A man removes snow from a trail along a fortress wall in Cheongju, central South Korea, on the morning of Feb. 16, 2016. (Yonhap)
North Korean synchronized swimmers put on a show in Pyongyang on Feb. 15, 2016, to mark the birthday a day later of the country’s former leader Kim Jong-il in this photo released by the North’s state media, the Korean Central News Agency. Kim is the son of North Korea’s founder Kim Il-sung and the father of the current leader, Kim Jong-un. (For use in S. Korea only. No redistribution) (Yonhap)
South Korean broadcaster MBC released these photos on Feb. 17, 2016, featuring U.S. talk show host Conan O’Brien shooting a cameo appearance for Korean drama “One More Happy Ending” a day earlier. O’Brien is on a five-day trip to Seoul from Feb. 15 to set up a collaboration project with JYP Entertainment chief Park Jin-young. (Yonhap)
A U-2 spy plane takes off from Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, on Feb. 14, 2016. (Yonhap)
Former South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na (L) strikes a pose with Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, during the figure skating competition at the Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, on Feb. 13, 2016. Kim is an ambassador for the Youth Olympics. (Photo courtesy of the IOC) (Yonhap)
Farmer Kim Gap-sul shows the rare triplet calves his 10-year-old cow gave birth to at a village in the southeastern town of Sancheng on Feb. 9, 2016, in this photo released by the Sancheong municipality on Feb. 12, 2016. (Yonhap)
Jung Ki-sup, chief of the association of 124 South Korean firms at the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North’s border city, speaks to reporters after meeting with lawmakers of the ruling Saenuri Party at the National Assembly in Seoul on Feb. 12, 2016. The Kaesong-based firms are expected to see huge losses, as the North expelled all South Korean nationals from the complex the previous day and froze the factory assets of South Korean firms in retaliation for Seoul’s decision to shut down the complex. (Yonhap)
Military officials display for the press what is believed to be debris from a North Korea-launched rocket at a naval fleet in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of Seoul, on Feb. 11, 2016. The pieces, three in total, were retrieved from the ocean floor in the Yellow Sea. North Korea launched the rocket on Feb. 7 and claimed it put an Earth observation satellite into orbit, but it is widely viewed as a test of its intercontinental ballistic missile technology. (Yonhap)
