my timesThe Korea Times
wschoi

Choi Won-suk

Korea Times Photo Reporter

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.

Go to EmailGo to URL

Read more

Darkroom

Ice is melting, land is burning

An iceberg floats in Baffin Bay in the Arctic Ocean on July 20, 2022 near Pituffik, Greenland as captured on a NASA Gulfstream V plane while on an airborne mission to measure melting Arctic sea ice. - New observations from ICESAT-2 show remarkable Arctic Sea ice thinning in just three years. Over the past two decades, the Arctic has lost about one-third of its winter sea ice volume, largely due to a decline in sea ice that persists over several years, called multiyear ice, according to a new study. The study also found sea ice is likely thinner than previous estimates. AFP  A melting pond is seen inside an iceberg from the Greenland ice sheet in the Baffin Bay near Pituffik, Greenland on July 17, 2022. AFP Icebergs float in Baffin Bay in the Arctic Ocean on July 18, 2022. AFP Icebergs float in Baffin Bay in the Arctic Ocean on July 18, 2022. AFP Meltwater flows from the Greenland ice sheet into the Baffin Bay near Pituffik, Greenland on July 17, 2022. AFP  A melting pond is seen inside an iceberg from the Greenland ice sheet in the Baffin Bay near P

Jul 28, 2022By Choi Won-suk
Ice is melting, land is burning
Darkroom

Tottenham 6-3 Team K League

Tottenham Hotspur wins the first pre-season game with a 6-3 victory over Team K League in South Korea. Korea Times photos by Choi Won-suk                                                        

Jul 14, 2022By Choi Won-suk
Tottenham 6-3 Team K League
  • Sonny, Tottenham beat Team K League in entertaining preseason exhibition
Darkroom

Afghanistan earthquake killed more than 1,000

Afghan children stand in front of a tent after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. AP An Afghan villager collects his belongings from under the rubble of his home that was destroyed in an earthquake in the Spera District of the southwestern part of Khost Province, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. AP In this photo released by a state-run news agency Bakhtar, Afghans look at destruction caused by an earthquake in the province of Paktika, eastern Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. AP People affected by earthquake wait for relief in Gayan village in Paktia province, Afghanistan, 23 June 2022. EPA Afghans warm themselves round a fire outside their home destroyed after an earthquake in Gayan village in Paktia province, Afghanistan, 23 June 2022. EPA Afghans stand among destruction afte

Jun 28, 2022By Choi Won-suk
Afghanistan earthquake killed more than 1,000
Darkroom

Divided America reacts to overturn of Roe vs. Wade

Pro Choice demonstrators participate in a march and rally after the US Supreme Court's decision on the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 24 June 2022. The court's ruling overturned the legalization of abortion in the Roe v Wade case of 1973.  EPA Abortion rights demonstrator Nadine Seiler from Washington DC, tapes her mouth outside the United States Supreme Court as the court rules in the Dobbs v Women's Health Organization abortion case, overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2022. REUTERS Lauren McKillip, left, holding daughter Thea McKillip, 2, and her wife Marissa McKillip, holding their son Lincoln McKillip, 4, of Crofton, Md., pose for a portrait as they attend an abortion rights rally, Saturday, May 14, 2022, outside the Supreme Court in Washington, during protests across the country. "It's important for us to come here for our daughter, for our marriage," says Marissa McKillip, "for all the things now established so that our daughter doesn't have to fight for it." A

Jun 27, 2022By Choi Won-suk
Divided America reacts to overturn of Roe vs. Wade
Darkroom

Namaste: Yogis to celebrate International Yoga Day

A group of people participate in a yoga session to mark International Yoga Day on the beach in Miami Beach, Florida, on June 21, 2022. AFP Yoga enthusiasts take part in a class with the intention of recovering from the complicated situations they live in the city, at the Samalayuca dunes on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico June18, 2022. REUTERS Yoga enthusiasts take part in a class to destress at the Samalayuca dunes on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico June 18, 2022. REUTERSYoga enthusiasts take part in a class to destress at the Samalayuca dunes on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico June 18, 2022. REUTERSPeople participate in a yoga class for the arrival of the summer solstice at Miranda Park in Caracas, Venezuela June 18, 2022. REUTERS Yoga enthusiasts perform during a mass yoga exercise to celebrate the International Day of Yoga in Bangkok, Thailand, 19 June 2022. EPAPeople perform yoga during a practice session ahead of International Yoga Day, in Ahmedabad, India, June 19, 2022. REUTERSPeople take part in a practice Yoga session on the ahead of Inte

Jun 24, 2022By Choi Won-suk
Namaste: Yogis to celebrate International Yoga Day
Darkroom

Poor hit harder by economic crisis

A staff member wearing a face mask works at a food store behind makeshift fences, after the lockdown placed to curb the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak was lifted in Shanghai, China June 2, 2022. REUTERS A protester launches orange smoke during a student protest outside La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Students are protesting on the day Chilean President Gabriel Boric gives his first annual address as president, while continuing to demand free, non-sexist education as well as fair transportation prices, more food vouchers and the cancelation of student debt. AP A youth carries home a bucket of cooked oatmeal in the Ticlio Chico area where residents pool their money to cook and serve food on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Twenty-five percent of Peruvians live in poverty, according to Peru's statistics institute INEI, amid rising global inflation. AP Water vendors fill water tanks, each tank linked to a home, in the Ticlio Chico area on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. AP C

Jun 9, 2022By Choi Won-suk
Poor hit harder by economic crisis
Darkroom

People in North Korea trapped in famine and pandemic

Members of the North Korean army supply medicines to residents at a pharmacy, amid growing fears over the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by Kyodo on May 18, 2022. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS A photo released by the official North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) wearing a face mask while inspecting a pharmacy in Pyongyang, North Korea, 15 May 2022 (issued 16 May 2022). On 15 May, Kim held an emergency consultative meeting of the political bureau of the Workers' Party at the headquarters of the party's Central Committee in Pyongyang. In the meeting, Kim ordered the mobilization of soldiers to stabilize the supply of medicine in the capital.  EPA/KCNA    A photo released by the official North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean soldiers gathering to pledge to complete their mission to supply medicine to pharmacies amid the nation's anti-epidemic campaign; at the Ministry of National Defense in Pyongyang, North Korea, 16 May 2022 (i

May 19, 2022By Choi Won-suk
People in North Korea trapped in famine and pandemic
Darkroom

2022 Pulitzer Prize: Bearing witness to history

This photo by Los Angeles Times correspondent and photographer Marcus Yam, provided by Columbia University, shows a military transport plane flying over relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family, as they gather around an incinerated vehicle destroyed by a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2021. Yam was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for work related to the fall of Kabul, in New York, Monday, May 9, 2022. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via AP) Taliban fighters pray next to young Afghans outside a local mosque for evening prayers in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 26, 2021. In its nearly two-decade fight with the U.S., the Taliban worked at every turn to undermine the Afghan government, deriding its leaders as corrupt stooges whose forces could never protect citizens from the group's ferocious attacks. But the Taliban is now in charge, and with power comes a daunting challenge: convincing Afghans - many of them with bitter memories of the last time the fundamentalist group ran the country - that it can govern and police as well as it can fig

May 12, 2022By Choi Won-suk
2022 Pulitzer Prize: Bearing witness to history
Darkroom

Worsening drought puts millions at risk

Fish trapped as the water disappeared rot and dry in the sun in the middle of the dried up patch of what used to be a boat access ramp to the waters of Lake Mead, near Boulder, Nevada, USA, 06 May 2022. Water levels in Lake Mead continue to drop as the region faces severe drought.  EPA A rusted metal barrel, near the location of where a different barrel was found containing  a human body, sits exposed on shore during low water levels due to the western drought at the Lake Mead Marina on the Colorado River in Boulder City, Nevada on May 5, 2022. AFP People ride on a boat during low water levels due to the western drought at the Lake Mead Marina on the Colorado River in Boulder City, Nevada on May 5, 2022. AFP Visitors launch boats from a ramp extended multiple times as a result of worsening low water levels due to the western drought at the Lake Mead Marina on the Colorado River in Boulder City, Nevada on May 5, 2022. AFP Wooden pallets mark the location of where a barrel was found containing a human body,  during low water levels due to the western

May 11, 2022By Choi Won-suk
Worsening drought puts millions at risk
Darkroom

Our children deserve the best (1)

A child refugee fleeing the war from neighbouring Ukraine with her family grimaces as she sits in a bus after crossing the border by ferry at the Isaccea-Orlivka border crossing, in Romania, Friday, March 25, 2022. AP Children lift part of a large Ukrainian flag during a protest against Russia's war in Ukraine, in front of the Russian embassy in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, April 16, 2022. AP People with children wait after arriving from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol at a center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. AP Children wait in a car after arriving from Mariupol to the evacuation point in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, 02 May 2022. EPA A girl collects water with a bottle in the Shabelle river in the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on April 8, 2022. AP Children fill water tanks in a private pump near the Shabelle river in the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on April 6, 2022. AFP A woman holds a malnourished child at the nutrition unit of the Kelafo Health Center in the town of Kelafo, 120 kilometers from the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on Apr

May 6, 2022By Choi Won-suk
Our children deserve the best (1)
previous page
1213141516
next page

Top 5 stories

Korea Times
About Us
Introduction
History
Contact Us
Products & Services
Subscribe
E-paper
RSS Service
Content Sales
Site Map
Policy
Code of Ethics
Ombudsman
Privacy Policy
Youth Protection Policy
Terms of Service
Copyright Policy
Family Site
Hankookilbo
Dongwha Group
FacebookXYoutubeInstagram
CEO & Publisher: Oh Young-jinDigital News Email: webmaster@koreatimes.co.krTel: 02-724-2114Online newspaper registration No: 서울,아52844Date of registration: 2020.02.05Masthead: The Korea TimesCopyright © koreatimes.co.kr. All rights reserved.