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.
"Korean Wave" celebrity couple to split
South Korean actors Song Hye-kyo and Song Joong-ki are splitting up less than two years after their fairytale marriage, the couple said on Thursday (June 27).
The co-stars of the 2016 hit television melodrama "Descendants of the Sun" - who played a soldier and doctor who fall in love - planned to seek a divorce due to personality differences.
"I have begun the arbitration process for divorce from Song Hye-kyo," Song Joong-ki, 33, said in a statement issued by his lawyer. Song Hye-kyo, 37, said in a statement that the two are going through the divorce process due to "differences in personality."
The SongSong couple, as they were dubbed by the media, are part of the "Korean Wave" of drama and popular music that has swept through the rest of Asia.
Song Hye-kyo, who first gained fame with a role in the 2000 TV series "Autumn in My Heart", was among the guests at a state dinner in Beijing when South Korean President Moon Jae-in visited China in 2017. (Reuters)