Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Cherry Blossoms in Gwangju

Cherry blossoms in S. Korea
Cherry blossoms in S. Korea
This photo, taken April 1, 2026, shows a camp ground surrounded by cherry blossoms in the southwestern city of Gwangju. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Indonesia’s President Visits South Korea

Indonesian president visits S. Korea
Indonesian president visits S. Korea
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (L) walks on a red carpet upon arrival at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, south of Seoul, on March 31, 2026, accompanied by Minister of Climate and Environment Kim Sung-hwan. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Russian News Agency Visits North Korea

Tass news agency's delegation in Pyongyang
Tass news agency’s delegation in Pyongyang
A delegation of Russia’s Tass news agency, led by the agency’s chief Andrey Kondrashov (3rd from L), visits Mangyongdae, the birthplace of the late North Korea founder President Kim Il-sung, in Pyongyang, in this undated photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency on March 31, 2026. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: North Korea’s Female Special Warfare Soldiers

N. Korea's women special warfare soldiers
N. Korea’s women special warfare soldiers
A group of women special warfare soldiers takes part in a training session at the special operations training base in an unspecified location as the North’s leader Kim Jong-un made a visit to the base affiliated with the North Korean Army’s Operations Bureau of the General Staff, in this photo taken from the North’s official Korean Central Television on March 29, 2026. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Cherry Blossom Festival in Changwon

Cherry blossom festival opens
Cherry blossom festival opens
People take a stroll around the Yeojwa Stream, one of the top spots for viewing cherry blossoms, in the southeastern city of Changwon on March 27, 2026, after the city’s Cherry Blossom Festival, the biggest of its kind in the country, opened the same day. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Drug Trafficker Appears in Court

Court to decide on warrant for drug trafficker
Court to decide on warrant for drug trafficker
Park Wang-yeol, a 48-year-old South Korean repatriated from the Philippines, is taken to a district court in Uijeongbu, northeast of Seoul, on March 27, 2026, to attend a hearing on the legality of his arrest for drug smuggling and distribution charges. Park has been serving a 60-year prison sentence in the Philippines for the murders of three South Koreans in 2016 and arrived in the country on March 25. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: KCTU Protests Iran War

Anti-war rally
Anti-war rally
Portraits for victims of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran are laid out as protestors from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions stage a rally in front of the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on March 25, 2026 to express their objection to the war with Iran and South Korea’s dispatch of troops to the conflict. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Aftermath of Deadly Wind Turbine Fire that Killed Three Koreans

Wind turbine fire
Wind turbine fire
This photo, taken March 24, 2026, shows a wind turbine inside a wind power complex in Yeongdeok, North Gyeongsang Province, southeastern South Korea, after two of the turbine’s three blades caught fire and fell to the ground the previous day, leaving three workers dead. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Ruling Party Chief Honors Former President Roh Moo-hyun

Ruling party's chief honors late president
Ruling party’s chief honors late president
Jung Chung-rae (C, 1st row), leader of the ruling Democratic Party, pays tribute to late President Roh Moo-hyun at Roh’s tomb in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, southeastern South Korea, on March 23, 2026. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Spring Arrives in Seoul

Forsythia blossoms bloom on Seoul mountain
Forsythia blossoms bloom on Seoul mountain
Visitors hike Mount Eungbong in Seoul’s Seongdong Ward on March 23, 2026, where forsythia blossoms, the Korean symbol of spring, are in full bloom. (Yonhap)