Visitors at Gyeongbok Palace on final day of Chuseok Visitors, some of whom are wearing the traditional hanbok, spend time touring the royal Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul on Sept. 12, 2022, the last day of the four-day Chuseok fall harvest holiday. (Yonhap)
Queen Elizabeth II in Seoul This 1999 file photo shows Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (R) being greeted by students at Midong Elementary School in Seoul during her visit to South Korea. (Yonhap)
S. Korea’s first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine released Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and employees of SK Bioscience pose for a photo during a ceremony to mark the release of SKYCovione, the country’s first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine, at the bio company in Andong, 191 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Sept. 2, 2022. (Yonhap)
Defense chief meets U.S. congressional group South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup (C, front row) poses for a photo with a U.S. congressional delegation belonging to foreign relations and defense committees at the defense ministry in Seoul on Sept. 5, 2022, in this photo provided by the ministry. (Yonhap)
N. Korea’s meeting on reviewing disaster prevention work North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and other senior officials take part in a meeting in Pyongyang to build counter-crisis capabilities to prevent various types of disasters, in this undated photo released by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sept. 6, 2022. The KCNA said a two-day meeting reviewing the state’s disaster prevention work was held from Sept. 4 to examine the country’s overall situation for disaster prevention and take decisive measures for strengthening the crisis response capacity. (Yonhap)
Flooded Jeju road amid typhoon Water pours out from a manhole cover in a street on Jeju Island as Typhoon Hinnamnor moves northward toward South Korea on Sept. 4, 2022. (Yonhap)
Preparations against Typhoon Hinnamnor A dinosaur model is roped down to prevent possible damage from Typhoon Hinnamnor at the Haenam Uhangri Dinosaur Museum in the southern county of Haenam, 423 kilometers south of Seoul, in South Jeolla Province, in this photo provided by the county office on Sept. 3, 2022. Typhoon Hinnamnor is forecast to land on the southern part of the country on Sept. 6. (Yonhap)
How to put out EV fire Firefighters demonstrate putting out a fire in an electric vehicle by using a special cover at an international firefighting safety fair in Daegu, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Aug. 31, 2022. (Yonhap)
Bridge reconnects villages in decades Seen here is a newly-built bridge over Paro Lake linking Wolmyeong and Sangmuryong Villages in the rural county of Yanggu, about 175 kilometers northeast of Seoul. The bridge opened on Aug. 31, 2022, and reconnected the villages, which have been separated for 78 years since the construction of nearby Hwacheon Dam in 1944. Villagers had used boats to come and go between them. (Yonhap)
FM honors Korean independence fighter in Mongolia Foreign Minister Park Jin pays his respects at a commemorative park honoring South Korean independence fighter Lee Tae-joon in Ulaanbaatar on Aug. 28, 2022. (Yonhap)
