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Wed, January 23, 2019 | 10:40

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'We are Koreans now'

Naturalized Korean citizens hold the Taegukgi or Korean national flag after receiving certificates of their new nationality at Incheon Immigration Office, Tuesday. / Yonhap

Photo News | 2019-01-22 16:01

Tourists photograph themselves at Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul amid a light snowfall, Monday. The temperature will rise slightly on Tuesday and Wednesday, but fine dust will again shroud some parts of Chungcheong and Jeolla provinces, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration. / Yonhap

Photo News | 2019-01-21 17:41

Ice fishing craze

Thousands of people fish for trout at the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon County, Gangwon Province, Sunday. More than 1.3 million people have participated in the festival since Jan. 5, including about 100,000 foreign visitors. / Yonhap

Photo News | 2019-01-20 16:55

Recovery from gas poisoning

Two students from Daesung High School in Seoul leave Wonju Severance Christian Hospital, Friday, after fully recovering from carbon monoxide poisoning last month at a guesthouse in Gangneung, Gangwon Province. Seven students, who were left unconscious by fumes from a faulty ventilation pipe, have been released from hospital. Three others were killed. / Yonhap

Photo News | 2019-01-18 17:16

Demanding probe into nurse's death

Members of the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers' Union demand the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the affiliated Seoul Medical Center to launch a fact-finding committee over the suicide of a nurse at the hospital who allegedly suffered bullying from colleagues, during a press conference in front of the City Hall, Thursday. / Yonhap

Photo News | 2019-01-17 18:11

'Extend subway line to Pocheon'

A resident from Pocheon in northern Gyeonggi Province has his head shaved at Gwanghwamun Square, Seoul, Wednesday, in a show of protest calling for the speedy extension of Seoul Metro Line 7 to his city. Thousands of Pocheon residents rallied and claimed the government should provide rail infrastructure as compensation for the city's lack of development, as the city could not...

Photo News | 2019-01-16 17:14

Unfinished 'Yongsan disaster'

Civic groups and family members of the deceased tenants in the Yongsan Disaster, a clash between tenants and police in a redevelopment area, call for punishment of those responsible for the forced eviction, in a rally near Cheong Wa Dae, Seoul, Tuesday, before the 10th anniversary of the incident that falls on Jan. 20. Five tenants and one policeman died in a deadly fire that...

Photo News | 2019-01-15 16:56

Desperate efforts

A visitor looks into a hole drilled into the ice to enable the catching of sancheoneo during the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Jinbu, PyeongChang County, Sunday. Following its start Jan. 5, the number of visitors to the annual event has topped the 1 million mark for the 13th straight year. Sancheoneo in Korean means mountain trout. Yonhap

Photo News | 2019-01-13 16:57

For better working conditions

The mother of Kim Yong-gyun, an irregular worker who was killed while working at a power plant in December, demands the government give permanent job status to irregular workers in the public sector, during a press conference held at the Franciscan Education Center in Seoul, Friday, one month after his death. Kim died after being stuck in a conveyer belt at the Taean Power Pl...

Photo News | 2019-01-11 16:34

Against new minimum wage rule

Members of the country's two umbrella trade unions ― the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Federation of Korea Trade Unions ― hold a press conference at the latter's headquarters in Seoul, Wednesday, to protest the government's plan to change the decision-making process regarding the minimum wage. They claimed the change would limit their rights in the process, and...

Photo News | 2019-01-09 17:57

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