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.
PHOTOS Heavy rain hammers South Korea
A worker begins the clean-up in the aftermath of a torrential rain storm that hit the capital city at Han River park on August 04, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. Damage from heavy rain that pounded the country's central region earlier this week continued to grow, leaving 14 dead and 12 missing as of Tuesday. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
By Choi Won-suk
Workers begin the clean-up in the aftermath of a torrential rain storm that hit the capital city at Han River park on August 04, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
Workers begin the clean-up in the aftermath of a torrential rain storm that hit the capital city at Han River park on August 04, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
A worker begins the clean-up in the aftermath of a torrential rain storm that hit the capital city at Han River park on August 04, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
Workers begin the clean-up in the aftermath of a torrential rain storm that hit the capital city at Han River park on August 04, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul