Ex-President Lee MB visits Cheonggye Stream Former President Lee Myung-bak (2nd from L, front) walks along Cheonggye Stream in Seoul on Oct. 16, 2024. Lee restored the landmark while serving as Seoul mayor. (Yonhap)
N. Korean youths’ petitions to join, rejoin Army This photo, provided by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on Oct. 16, 2024, shows North Korean youths and students signing petitions to voluntarily join or rejoin the North Korean Army. According to the news agency, more than 1.4 million young people across the country signed the petitions between Oct. 14-15, amid rising inter-Korean tensions. (Yonhap)
Coral bleaching Coral appears bleached and dead under the sea off South Korea’s southern Jeju Island on Oct. 14, 2024, due to the abnormally high water temperatures during the summer. (Yonhap)
N.K. artillery positions open This photo, taken from South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island bordering North Korea in the Yellow Sea, shows the entrances of artillery positions being opened on North Korea’s coast in Hwanghae Province on Oct. 14, 2024, following a North Korean order for its artillery corps near the border to fully prepare to fire, citing the alleged flight of South Korean drones over Pyongyang. (Yonhap)
N. Korean leader visits military university North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C, on podium) delivers a speech during a visit to Kim Jong-un University of National Defense in Pyongyang on Oct. 7, 2024, marking the school’s 60th anniversary, in this photo provided by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency. (Yonhap)
Yoon in Singapore South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (2nd from R) and his wife, Kim Keon Hee (2nd from L), salute the national flag during a welcoming ceremony for their state visit at Parliament House in Singapore on Oct. 8, 2024. (Yonhap)
Autumn in full force Visitors enjoying the weekend autumn weather stroll through a field of yellow cosmos at Olympic Park in Seoul on Oct. 6, 2024. (Yonhap)
Remains of drone N. Korea claims sent by S. Korea This image, provided by the Korean Central News Agency on Oct. 19, 2024, shows the remains of a drone that Pyongyang claims was sent from South Korea. The drone is being described by Pyongyang as the same type that was publicly displayed on Armed Forces Day in Seoul earlier this month. (Yonhap)
Military jet carrying S. Korean nationals arrives home from Lebanon South Korean nationals staying in Lebanon get off a military jet at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, just south of Seoul, on Oct. 5, 2024, as the KC-330 military transport plane carrying 96 nationals arrived home from the Middle East country amid military tensions between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group. (Yonhap)
