A clerk sorts out 100-yuan Chinese banknotes at the headquarters of Korea Exchange Bank in Seoul on Aug. 12, 2015. The South Korean won hit a 46-month low against the U.S. dollar following China’s second devaluation of its currency on the same day. The local currency closed at 1,190.8 won against the greenback, down 11.7 won from the previous session and the lowest close since the 1,194.0. won recorded on Oct. 4, 2011. (Yonhap)
The photo shows a ceremony being held to launch the Navy’s sixth next-generation frigate Gwangju at the dock of STX Offshore and Shipbuilding Co. in Changwon, southeastern South Korea, on Aug. 11, 2015. The 2,300-ton ship is equipped with three-dimension scanning radar, a sonar torpedo detecting system as well as anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles. (Yonhap)
Gen. Curtis Scaparroti (L), the new commander of the U.S. Forces Korea, along with South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Choi Yoon-hee (C), comforts Ssg. Kim Jung-won at the Army’s hospital in Seongnam, just south of Seoul, on Aug. 12, 2015, in this photo released by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Kim is one of the two South Korean staff sergeants who were seriously injured on Aug. 4 as they stepped on three wooden-box land mines on the southern side of the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas. South Korea has accused North Korea of intentionally burying the mines. (Yonhap)
Parents of college aspirants take part in a Buddhist prayer at the main hall of Jogye Temple in Seoul on Aug. 4, 2015, to wish for their high scores on the state-administered annual scholastic aptitude test in November. The crucial test is seen as a deciding factor in an applicant’s choice of college and subsequent career. (Yonhap)
It is amazing the quality of Kodachrome photos from back in th day. This image of an apple market in 1952 during the Korean War looks like it could have been taken with a modern digital camera. Image link via Reddit Korea.
South Korean wrestlers train at the Taereung National Training Center in Seoul on Aug. 3, 2015, in the buildup for next year’s Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. (Yonhap)
An employee holds a dog, with other pet dogs kept in glass capsules, at a pet dog hotel in Seoul’s Gangnam Ward on Aug. 3, 2015, amid the summer vacation season. An increasing number of holidaymakers are leaving their pets at hotels so they can take time for themselves during the summer vacation season. (Yonhap)
College students and police officers celebrate the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule with a performance at a plaza in front of Cheongnyangni Station in Seoul on Aug. 1, 2015. (Yonhap)
South Korean actor Bae Yong-joon (R), the star of the hugely popular TV drama “Winter Sonata,” plans to marry Park Soo-jin, a singer-turned-actress, on the evening of July 27, 2015, at Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel in Seoul with their relatives and close friends in attendance. (Photo captured from Bae’s Instagram)
A group of university students protests in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 29, 2015, demanding that Japan make a sincere apology for its wartime crimes during its 1910-45 colonial rule over Korea. The pickets say “Japan, a war criminal state, should apologize before history.” (Yonhap)
I wonder if these same protesters will go protest in front of the Chinese embassy as well and demand an apology for war crimes committed against Korea by the government responsible for it still in power to this day?
