A model juxtaposes her painted body with a mural as she poses for a photo during a competition of craftsmanship at the KINTEX convention center outside of Seoul on Sept. 10, 2015. (Yonhap)
Korean and U.S. marines rehearse for a re-enactment of the Incheon Landing in 1950 on Wolmi Island in Incheon, Sunday, two days ahead of the 65th anniversary of the operation. Led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the landing turned the tide for forces in the Korean War. [Korea Times]
Syrian refugees living in South Korea hold a press conference in front of the state-run human rights commission in central Seoul on Sept. 13, 2015, urging people to help refugees from Syria. (Yonhap)
South Korean President Park Geun-hye (R) and King Abdullah II of Jordan shake hands at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on Sept. 11, 2015, ahead of their talks (Yonhap)
South Korean actress Lee Young-ae poses for a photo during the Seoul International Drama Awards 2015 at the National Theater in Seoul on Sept. 10, 2015. (Yonhap)
This undated file photo shows Afghan actress Marina Golbahari, who will serve as an emcee for the opening ceremony of the Busan International Film Festival, along with South Korean actor Song Kang-ho, the festival’s organizing committee said on Sept. 7, 2015. During the film festival, which will start Oct. 1 for a 10-day run, 304 titles from 75 countries will be screened. (Yonhap)
This undated file photo shows an outlet of the supermarket chain Homeplus, British retail giant Tesco’s South Korean unit. A consortium led by MBK Partners, a Seoul-based private equity fund, signed a 7.2 trillion won (US$5.98 billion) deal to buy Homeplus, industry sources said on Sept. 7, 2015. (Yonhap).
Participants warm up ahead of a multicultural walking contest in Hwaseong Haenggung, a palace in Suwon, south of Seoul, on Sept. 6, 2015. The contest was co-hosted by South Korea’s key newswire service, Yonhap News Agency, and the Suwon municipal government, for the first time this year. (Yonhap)
While Maxim here in the U.S. has done well to rejuvenate its image, Maxim Korea is headed 100 mph in the wrong direction with this disturbing cover. The cover depicts a man casually enjoying a cigarette while a woman’s dead body is stuffed in the trunk of his car. The image is for Maxim Korea‘s September issue, which has a “bad guy” theme, and features an actor notorious for playing villains, Kim Byung-ok. Next to Byung-ok is the copy, “So girls like ‘bad guys’? This is what a bad guy looks like. Dying for him, right?”
Unsurprisingly, the offensive cover has prompted an online petition that calls for Maxim Korea to pull the magazine from newsstands, Cosmopolitan UK reports. [Yahoo News via reader tip]
A pedestrian looks at photos taken during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula on Aug. 29, 2015, in Seoul. (Yonhap)
