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.
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A worker cleans windows on the exterior of an office building in Mexico City, March 23. Reuters-Yonhap
By Choi Won-suk
A worker arranges gas cylinders at a distribution depot in New Delhi, March 19. AP-Yonhap
A worker sorts bundles of mohair at the House of Fibre warehouse in Gqeberha, South Africa, March 9. South Africa supplied 56 percent of the world's supply of the natural fiber in 2024, according to its figures. The sector accounts for approximately 30,000 jobs, hundreds of which are in the Karoo region, which has become an unexpected home for this goat breed from Turkey. AFP-Yonhap
Workers load part of a fallen missile onto a police vehicle during the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, near Zaarura, an unrecognized Bedouin village in southern Israel, March 30. Reuters-Yonhap
Workers sort plastic bottle waste for recycling at a community-owned recycling center in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, April 7. The secretary general of the Central Executive Board of the Indonesian Market Traders Association, Reynaldi Sarijowan, said that plastic prices increased by up to 50 percent due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime route for the raw petroleum materials used in plastic production. EPA-Yonhap
A self-employed worker paints a customer's nails by the light of rechargeable lamps during a blackout in Matanzas, Cuba, April 6. Matanzas is one of the Cuban cities most affected by electricity shortages, at times going more than 24 hours without power, despite being home to the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Plant, one of the country's most important sources of power. AFP-Yonhap
A migrant worker is seen reflected in a mirror inside his rented room in New Delhi, April 9.
Workers walk in a blooming tulip bulb field in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands, April 13. The Dutch flower fields attract tourists and day-trippers in the spring. EPA-Yonhap
A worker carries potatoes at a grocery market in Hyderabad, Pakistan, April 13. Pakistan secured access to Russia's market for Punjab potato exports after phytosanitary restrictions were eased, with initial approval granted to three exporters, officials said, as large domestic output boosts efforts to expand shipments and support prices. EPA-Yonhap
Workers prepare communion wafers at the Clarisse nunnery in Yaounde, Cameroon, April 14, ahead of Pope Leo XIV's visit. AFP-Yonhap
A worker cuts scrap metal as sparks fly at the site of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, April 14. AP-Yonhap
App delivery workers protest against a regulatory bill that would cut earnings and worsen working conditions, in Rio de Janeiro, April 14. Reuters-Yonhap
A worker straightens a stop sign that bent when a tornado passed through the town of Lena, Illinois, April 17. The storm was part of a strong system that caused tornadoes in several Midwestern states. AFP-Yonhap
Workers offload pineapples from a truck outside their wholesale shop at Mahanak Market in Bangkok, April 20. AFP-Yonhap
Workers inspect cheese during the opening of the first cheese market of the season at the Waagplein in Alkmaar, Netherlands, March 27. EPA-Yonhap