Category: Picture of the Day

The Quantum of the Seas, Asia’s largest cruise ship, arrives in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan on Aug. 29, 2015. [Yonhap]

Protestors, including Korean-American groups, demand in New York on Aug. 28, 2015, that Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush apologize for accusing Asian people of abusing the birthright citizenship law. (Yonhap)

An elderly woman spreads out harvested red peppers and sesame on the ground to dry them in the sun in the city of Chuncheon, northeast of Seoul, on Aug. 27, 2015. Sun-dried hot peppers, known as “taeyangcho” in Korean, are considered to be of the highest quality and fetch high prices at local markets. (Yonhap)

Dog cosmeticians trim the hair of pet dogs during an international dog show, organized by the Korea Kennel Federation, at the Korea International Exhibition Center in the city of Goyang, west of Seoul, on Aug. 28, 2015. (Yonhap)

This photo taken on Aug. 25, 2015, shows a traffic signpost collapsed as strong wind and rain were caused by Typhoon Goni in the southeastern coastal city of Busan. The strong typhoon is expected to reach the sea 160 kilometers off the city’s eastern coast at 3 p.m. that day. (Yonhap)

A U.S. high-altitude manned surveillance plane, the U-2, is ready to make a sortie at an airbase in the Seoul metropolitan area on Aug. 22, 2015, as North Korea has given a 48-hour ultimatum for South Korea to end propaganda broadcasts along the heavily fortified border and dismantle all loudspeakers, otherwise it will launch “a strong military action.” (Yonhap)

This photo taken on Aug. 21, 2015, shows military trucks and other mobility equipment ready at a U.S. Army unit in Dongducheon, northeast of Seoul, amid heightened tensions raised by the two Koreas’ shelling across the inter-Korean border the previous day. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered front-line troops to have full combat readiness against South Korea as he declared a “quasi-state of war.” (Yonhap)

Chang Ho-kwon (L), the eldest son of prominent independence fighter and dissident Chang Joon-ha, receives a glass of beer from a man pretending to be a Japanese Army officer during an event in Seoul’s Yeongdeungpo Ward on Aug. 18, 2015, to display a C-47 cargo plane as part of festivities to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. The two are re-enacting an episode in which the elder Chang returned home from China aboard the same type of cargo plane and was offered a glass of beer from a Japanese officer at the now-defunct Yeouido airfield on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Korea gained independence from the Japanese rule. (Yonhap)

A woman dubbed the ‘McDonald’s Goddess’ for her striking looks has been the cause of a surge of sales at a Taiwan branch of the fast food restaurant.

Wei Han Xu has become an Internet icon after pictures of her, including the one above, were shared online by blogger RainDog.

Photos showed her serving customers and buttoning up her shirt while she stood behind the counter.

Rather than wearing an unflattering work outfit, Xu is seen wearing a short skirt and fierce high-heel shoes as she cleans the counter and serves up Big Macs.

Smitten fans became obsessed with finding out where their McDonald’s goddess worked and they poured into the restaurant once they found out.

Doll-like Xu – who is also known as WeiWei – is fine with the fame, having already appeared on Taiwanese game shows. [Tumblr]

Could you imagine the feminist reaction in the US if a McDonald’s tried to have their workers dress in a maid outfit?

Participants unfold a big banner during a rally near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Aug. 12, 2015, for the elderly Korean women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan’s World War II soldiers. (Yonhap)