Choi Won-suk is a photojournalist at The Korea Times. Before joining the newspaper, he also worked as a photojournalist with AFP and St. Joseph News-Press in Missouri. He spent 13 years in the United States, graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism degree (Cum Laude) from the University of Missouri - Columbia and a Master of Arts in Photography from Ohio University - Athens. Over the past 11 years, Choi covered various news events such as presidential elections, the 2019 North Korea-United States Hanoi Summit and 2022 Qatar World Cup. But above all, Choi believes in local journalism and finds a lot of joy telling life stories of ordinary citizens in small neighborhoods.
In Ukraine, daily life goes on amid ongoing war
A saxophonist practices in a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work until it was shuttered following a Russian air assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 30. Losing the place of work is just one of a multitude of challenges that people with visual impairments face across Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022. AP-Yonhap
By Choi Won-suk
A local resident carries his family photos as he leaves his house ruined in a Russian rocket attack in Stari Petrivtsi close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 16. AP-Yonhap
A serviceman of the 68th Oleksa Dovbush Separate Jaeger Brigade checks a national flag installed on a house of culture in the newly liberated village of Blahodatne, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the front line in Donetsk Region, Ukraine June 17. Reuters-Yonhap
A local man collects documents inside his house damaged by a Russian rocket strike on a residential neighbourhood in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 21. AP-Yonhap
People from the damaged buildings take shelter at a car parking as an air raid alert sounds at the site of the apartment buildings damaged during Russian missile strikes, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 24. Reuters-Yonhap
Local residents take shelter in a metro station in the centre of Kyiv during a Russian missile attack on June 16, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine said on June 16 that it downed 12 Russian missiles, including six hypersonic Kinzhals, over Kyiv as a delegation of African leaders was set to hold talks as part of a peace mission. AFP-Yonhap
A Ukrainian soldier lies on the ground as a tank fires toward Russian positions at the frontline near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, June 17. AP-Yonhap
A Ukrainian MSLR BM-21 "Grad" fires towards Russian positions, near Bakhmut at the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 21. AP-Yonhap
Young cadets sing the national anthem during a graduation ceremony in a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 13. AP-Yonhap
Children look at the scene of the latest Russian rocket attack that damaged a multi-storey apartment building in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 13. AP-Yonhap
A woman waves a Ukrainian flag as she attends a protest against the war in Ukraine in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, June 13. AP-Yonhap
This photo shows an old book printed during Ukraine's Soviet era, damaged during a Russian air assault on a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 30. Losing the place of work is just one of a multitude of challenges that people with visual impairments face across Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022. AP-Yonhap
People sit in a workshop in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, in a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work until it was shuttered following a Russian air assault. AP-Yonhap
A sapper inspects a damaged Russian self-propelled artillery vehicle installed as a symbol of war in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, June 15. AP-Yonhap
A sapper inspects a damaged Russian vehicle installed as a symbol of war in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, June 15. AP-Yonhap
A Ukrainian serviceman of the 43rd Artillery Brigade wait near Bakhmut, Donetsk region on June 15, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. AFP-Yonhap
A Ukrainian serviceman Ihor, 66, is seen as he fixes a captured Russian BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine June 16. Reuters-Yonhap
Emergency teams help rush to safety an evacuee who had came under fire from Russian forces while trying to flee by boat from the Russian-occupied east bank of a flooded Dnieper River to Ukrainian-held Kherson, on the western bank in Kherson, Ukraine, on Sunday, June 11. AP-Yonhap
Nadia, a resident of the village of Hrushivka, holds a bucket for water, which she fills with water from a water storage tank in her yard, while the water level in Kakhovka reservoir has sharply dropped, after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Hrushivka, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, June 14. Reuters-Yonhap
A view shows the Ukrainian capital at sunset during an air raid alert, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 15. Reuters-Yonhap