Category: Picture of the Day

Picture of the Day: Incheon Bids for 2025 APEC Summit

| April 10, 2024
Incheon's bid for APEC 2025
Incheon’s bid for APEC 2025
A monorail promoting Incheon’s efforts to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit 2025 is in operation at Wolmi Park in the western port city on April 8, 2024, ahead of its APEC on-site inspection in May. The host city will be decided in June. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Kim Jong-un Looks at Apartments

| April 9, 2024
N.K. leader inspects apartment construction site in Pyongyang
N.K. leader inspects apartment construction site in Pyongyang
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) inspects the construction site for a new apartment complex in Pyongyang on April 5, 2024, ahead of its completion, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported the following day. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Early Voting Starts in South Korea

| April 8, 2024
Early voting
Early voting
Voters wait in line to cast ballots at a polling station in Incheon, just west of Seoul, on April 6, 2024, the second and final day of early voting for the parliamentary elections on April 10. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Kim Jong-un Inspects New IRBM

| April 5, 2024
N. Korea's test-fire of new IRBM Hwasongpho-16B
N. Korea’s test-fire of new IRBM Hwasongpho-16B
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (R, bottom) inspects the launch of a Hwasongpho-16B, a new type of intermediate-range solid-fueled ballistic missile equipped with a newly-developed hypersonic gliding warhead, on April 2, 2024, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency the following day. “The hypersonic glide warhead, separated from the missile after its launch towards the northeast at an army unit’s training field on the outskirts of Pyongyang, reached its first peak at the height of 101.1 kilometers and the second 72.3 kilometers while making 1 000-km-long flight as scheduled to accurately hit the waters of the East Sea,” the agency reported. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: North Korea’s New IRBM

| April 4, 2024
N. Korea's test-fire of new IRBM Hwasongpho-16B
N. Korea’s test-fire of new IRBM Hwasongpho-16B
A Hwasongpho-16B, a new type of intermediate-range solid-fueled ballistic missile equipped with a newly-developed hypersonic gliding warhead, is launched under the inspection of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on April 2, 2024, in this photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency the following day. “The hypersonic glide warhead, separated from the missile after its launch towards the northeast at an army unit’s training field on the outskirts of Pyongyang, reached its first peak at the height of 101.1 kilometers and the second 72.3 kilometers while making 1 000-km-long flight as scheduled to accurately hit the waters of the East Sea,” the agency reported. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: President Yoon Christens Next Generation KTX Train

| April 3, 2024

Yoon at christening ceremony for next-generation bullet train

President Yoon Suk Yeol (2nd from R) applauds during a ceremony naming the country’s next-generation super-speed bullet train, as “KTX Cheong-Ryong (blue dragon),” at Daejeon Station in the namesake city, 164 kilometers south of Seoul, on April 1, 2024. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Six U.S. Senators Visit South Korea

| April 2, 2024


Defense chief meets U.S. congressional group

South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik (4th from L, front row) poses for a photo with a U.S. delegation of six senators, including Kirsten Gillibrand (4th from R, front row), and a representative at the defense ministry in Seoul on March 29, 2024, in this photo provided by the ministry. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: South Korea Completes Deployment of Counterfire Radars

| April 1, 2024
Deployment of radar against N. Korean artillery
Deployment of radar against N. Korean artillery
This photo, provided by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration on March 29, 2024, shows an AN/TPQ-II system, whose deployment throughout the entire Army Corps and on northwestern islands bordering North Korea has been completed against the North’s long-range artillery targeting Seoul and its adjacent areas. AN/TPQ stands for Army/Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Bus Driver Strike in Seoul Ends

| March 29, 2024
Bus drivers in Seoul end strike
Bus drivers in Seoul end strike
Bus operations return to normal in Seoul on March 28, 2024, as unionized bus drivers in the capital concluded their strike about 11 hours after initiating the labor action following the breakdown of wage negotiations with their employers. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Remembering the Sinking of the Cheonan

| March 28, 2024
Anniversary of Cheonan warship incident
Anniversary of Cheonan warship incident
A grieving mother sheds tears while caressing a relief depicting her son, one of 46 sailors who perished in North Korea’s torpedo assault on the South Korean corvette Cheonan in 2010, during a ceremony marking the 14th anniversary of the incident at the Second Fleet in Pyeongtaek, 60 kilometers south of Seoul, on March 26, 2024. (Yonhap)