Tag: rice

Picture of the Day: Rice Planting Season

| June 3, 2025
Rice planting
Rice planting
Residents participate in a traditional farming event to plant rice seedlings at a paddy in Yeongam, South Jeolla Province, southwestern South Korea, on May 30, 2025. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Korean Traditional Rice Tilling

| May 22, 2025
Bull-powered rice paddy tilling
Bull-powered rice paddy tilling
A farmer drives two bulls, connected with a plow, called “gyeori” in Korean, to till a rice field during a demonstration of traditional Korean rice planting at the National Agricultural Museum in Suwon, south of Seoul, on May 21, 2025. The use of animals for farmwork is rare in South Korea, where farming machinery has almost entirely replaced animals. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Rice Harvesting Season

| October 9, 2024
Rice harvesting
Rice harvesting
Farmers harvest rice in Boseong, 309 kilometers south of Seoul, on Oct. 8, 2024. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Rice Protest

| September 13, 2024
Protest against rice imports
Protest against rice imports
Farmers destroy their rice fields ahead of the harvest in Anseong, 77 kilometers south of Seoul, on Sept. 12, 2024, in protest against rice imports and to demand that the government guarantee rice prices. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Checking the Rice

| September 17, 2021
N.K. premier's farm inspection
N.K. premier’s farm inspection
North Korean Premier Kim Tok-hun (C) visits a rice paddy at a cooperative farm in Ryongchon, North Pyongan Province, northwestern North Korea, as part of his inspection of several units of the national economy, in this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 15, 2021. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Giant Rice Bowl

| July 1, 2021
Giant pot
Giant pot
Models promote CJ CheilJedang’s new ready-to-eat cooked rice product with a giant pot and a wooden spoon at Time Square shopping mall in central Seoul on June 27, 2021. (Yonhap) 

Picture of the Day: Rice Paddy Concert

| October 1, 2019
Concert in field
Concert in fieldMusicians perform on a stage built amid rice paddies in Sunchang, 360 kilometers south of Seoul, on Sept. 27, 2019, in this photo provided by the Sunchang county office. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

Tweet of the Day: South Korea’s 53% Rice Tariff

| September 24, 2019

Picture of the Day: Rice Harvest Season

| September 19, 2019
Rice harvesting
Rice harvestingA farmer uses a machine to harvest rice in a paddy in the northern border county of Cheorwon on Sept. 16, 2019. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Rice Protest

| August 27, 2017

Female farmers call for suspension of rice imports

Participants call for the government to stop rice imports during a rally of female farmers from across the nation in front of the National Assembly in Seoul on Aug. 23, 2017. (Yonhap)