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Mon, September 24, 2018 | 18:52

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Salute to President

Chang Hyun-sub, left, a Korean War veteran, salutes President Moon Jae-in during a luncheon event held for war veterans and their families at Cheong Wa Dae, Tuesday. The meeting was held to commemorate the 63rd Memorial Day which falls today.

Photo News | 2018-06-05 17:00

Local elections

A balloon is flown over a street in Daegu, Thursday, to promote voter participation in the June 13 local elections. The two-week official election campaigns have begun nationwide. / Yonhap

Photo News | 2018-05-31 17:17

Election campaigns

An election official inspects posters of candidates running in the June 12 local elections in Seoul, Wednesday. The two-week long official campaigns will begin Thursday for the elections, which will include 2,280 public servants including mayors and governors and local councilors. Twelve lawmakers will also be elected the same day. / Korea Times photo by Hong In-ki

Photo News | 2018-05-30 16:55

Recalled mattresses

Recalled mattresses are piled up at Daijin Bed's factory in Cheonan, 90 kilometers south of Seoul, Monday. The mattresses were found to emit levels of radiation from radon that exceeded safety limits. / Yonhap

Photo News | 2018-05-28 17:58

Anti-Trump rally

Protesters stage a rally in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Friday, to criticize U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the planned U.S.-North Korea summit. Trump was scheduled to sit down with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12 in Singapore, but he abruptly scrapped what would have been a historic meeting, Thursday, citing Pyongyang's “open h...

Photo News | 2018-05-25 16:32

Constitutional revision bill scrapped

National Assembly Speaker Chung Sye-kyun bangs the gavel to cancel a legislative vote on President Moon Jae-in’s constitutional revision bill, Thursday, after opposition lawmakers refused to participate in the voting. President Moon submitted the revision bill to the Assembly on March 26 that automatically required a vote within 60 days. However, the Assembly failed to ...

Photo News | 2018-05-24 17:43

Inside ferry Sewol

Reporters and members of the government's Sewol Investigation Committee inspect the salvaged ferry Sewol at Mokpo New Port, 410 kilometers southwest of Seoul, Thursday. The inside of the vessel, which was lifted upright on May 10 after being hoisted from the seabed last year, was open to the press for the first time. The 6,825-ton ferry carrying 476 passengers capsized off th...

Photo News | 2018-05-24 16:38

Police to stop guarding ex-presidents' residences

The police chief said, Monday, police officers will stop guarding private residences of the two former authoritarian-era presidents Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo next year amid growing public calls against the duty. “We plan to reduce police officers guarding their houses by 20 percent this year and withdraw all of them by next year,” National Police Agency Commissioner Gener...

Photo News | 2018-05-21 17:17

'Equal Crime, Equal Justice'

More than 10,000 women, many of them dressed in red as a sign of their anger, protest the authorities' gender-biased handling of hidden camera crimes in Daehangno, Seoul, Saturday. According to the protesters, police investigated the recent leaking of an art class photo, involving a male victim, with speed and thoroughness that had been missing in their handling of cases with...

Photo News | 2018-05-20 18:01

Call for fair investigations

Prosecutor Ahn Mee-hyun speaks during a press conference in Seoul, Tuesday, calling for a thorough investigation of allegations that Prosecutor-General Moon Moo-il put undue pressure on investigators looking into a hiring scandal at Kangwon Land linked to an opposition lawmaker. Ahn claimed Moon berated the prosecution's plan to summon Rep. Kwon Seong-dong of the main opposit...

Photo News | 2018-05-15 16:48

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