Category: Picture of the Day

Members of the Korean Animal Welfare Association, an animal rights group, hold a rally in central Seoul on July 23, 2015, protesting against eating dog meat. (Yonhap)

Two foreign participants in a Korean culture event held for teenagers from countries that fought in the 1950-53 Korean War pose for a photo at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul on July 26, 2015. (Yonhap)

A newly-wed couple clad in traditional Korean wedding attire distribute Korean rice cake during a Korea festival event at the Canadian Embassy in Seoul on July 18, 2015, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the embassy’s opening, in this photo provided by the Culture, Sports and Tourism Ministry on July 20. (Yonhap)

People enjoy riding a 350-meter-long waterslide on a street in Seoul’s Seodamun Ward on July 19, 2015. The ward office operated the waterslide, the longest one in South Korea, in a festival aimed at helping people cool down in the summer heat. (Yonhap)

A member of the Solidarity for the Peace and Reunification of Korea, a progressive civic group, speaks during a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 16, 2015, to voice her objection to Japan exercising the right to collective self-defense. Japan’s ruling coalition pushed controversial security bills through the lower house that would allow it to exercise that right the same day. (Yonhap)

A choir performs during a memorial service at the National Cemetery in Seoul on July 17, 2015, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of former President Rhee Syng-man, who served as the nation’s first chief executive from 1948 to 1960. (Yonhap)

Mud-covered tourists frolic at the Daecheon Beach Mud Plaza in the city of Boryeong on South Korea’s west coast on July 17, 2015, as they take part in the Boryeong Mud Festival, which opened that day and will run through July 26. Boryeong mud is rich in natural minerals and is known to prevent skin aging, among others. (Yonhap)

A group of students is joyful at Sinseo Elementary School in Seoul on July 10, 2015, as the school starts its summer vacation. (Yonhap)

Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn (C) and a group soldiers raise their fists in a gesture of solidarity as the prime minister visits a Marine Corps unit on Yeonpyeong, a western border island near North Korea, on July 10, 2015. (Yonhap)

Lee Min-ji, a vocal music graduate of Sungshin Women’s University, struts down the runway during an annual beauty pageant in Seoul on July 10, 2015, to select the 2015 Miss Korea. Lee, from Gyeonggi Province, won the beauty contest. (Yonhap)