Performance ahead of Liberation Day Reenactors put on a performance depicting Koreans’ independence movement against Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule at the Seodaemun Prison History Hall in Seoul on Aug. 14, 2022, as South Korea is set to mark Liberation Day on Aug. 15. (Yonhap)
New police chiefPresident Yoon Suk-yeol (L) poses for a photo with Yoon Hee-keun, new head of the National Police Agency, after presenting him with a letter of appointment at the presidential office in Seoul on Aug. 10, 2022. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)
Heavy rain The Olympic Expressway along the Han River is empty on the morning of Aug. 9, 2022, as the river slowly encroaches on the road due to torrential rains of over 100 millimeters per hour that battered Seoul and surrounding areas the previous night, the heaviest downpours in 80 years. (Yonhap)
Defense chief visits U.S. base South Korea’s Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup (R) holds talks with Gen. Paul LaCamera, chief of the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command, at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, 65 kilometers south of Seoul, on Aug. 8, 2022, in this photo provided by the defense ministry. Lee visited the U.S. military base to inspect the allies’ combined defense posture. (Yonhap)
Gwanghwamun Square opens after renovation People crowd around Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on Aug. 6, 2022, after it reopened to the public after a major renovation. (Yonhap)
Tomato festivalPeople participate in an event to find a gold ring hidden inside a tomato during the 2022 Hwacheon Tomato Festival in Gangwon Province on Aug. 7, 2022. (Yonhap)
Pelosi arrives in S. KoreaU.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (L) is welcomed by U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Philip Goldberg (C) and Gen. Paul LaCamera, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, after arriving at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, 65 kilometers south of Seoul, on Aug. 3, 2022, to meet with South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo amid heightened regional tensions in the wake of her high-profile visit to Taiwan, in this photo captured from the Twitter account of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
Daily COVID-19 cases top 110,000 People stand in line to take coronavirus tests at a screening clinic in front of Seoul Station on Aug. 2, 2022. South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases sharply rose to over 110,000 as a highly infectious omicron variant has fueled a surge of new infections. (Yonhap)
N. Korea’s war veterans at spa resort North Korean veterans of the 1950-53 Korean War bathe in an open-air spa at Yangdok Hot Spring Resort in the North’s South Pyongan Province, in this undated photo released Aug. 1, 2022, by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency. They came to the resort after taking part in a national conference of veterans in Pyongyang on July 27 to celebrate the 69th anniversary of the armistice that halted the three-year conflict. (Yonhap)
Japanese activists oppose Korea-U.S. military drill A group of Japanese civic activists stages a rally near the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on July 29, 2022, opposing a South Korea-U.S. joint military drill set for next month. (Yonhap)
