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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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Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush 1924-2018

In this Feb. 6, 2007, file photo, former President George H.W. Bush arrives at the 2007 Ronald Reagan Freedom Award gala dinner held in his honor in Beverly Hills, Calif. Bush has died at age 94. Family spokesman Jim McGrath says Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. AP FILE - In this June 6, 1964, file photo George H.W. Bush, candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, gets returns by phone at his headquarters in Houston, as his wife Barbara, smiles at the news. AP FILE - In this March 6, 1968 file photo, George H.W. Bush, R-Texas, appears in Washington. AP FILE - In this Oct. 18, 1971, file photo, U.S. Ambassador George H.W. Bush gestures as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly during the China debate. He denied the U.S. formula was either a "Two Chinas" or a "One China and one Taiwan" plan. AP FILE - In this March 4, 1980 file photo, George H.W. Bush and an unidentified woman peek around a partition with a poster of Ronald Reagan, one of his opponent

Dec 4, 2018By Choi Won-suk
Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush 1924-2018
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'Yellow Vest' protest in Paris

A French fire fighter walks towards flames as a  Yellow vests (Gilets jaunes) demonstrator waves the French flag during protests against rising oil prices and living costs in the French capital Paris on December 1, 2018. AFP A general view shows protesters wearing yellow vests, a symbol of a French drivers' protest against higher diesel taxes, during a demonstration at the Place de l'Etoile in Paris, France, December 1, 2018. Reuters Protesters wearing yellow vests (gilets jaunes) are sprayed with water cannons as they clash with riot police near the Arc de Triomphe during a demonstration over high fuel prices on the Champs Elysee in Paris, France, 01 December 2018. EPA A demonstrator throws a bottle containing yellow painting at riot police officers during a protest of Yellow vests (Gilets jaunes) against rising oil prices and living costs on the Champs Elysees in Paris, on December 1, 2018. AFP Riot police officers are covered with painting during clashes with demonstrators as part of a protest of Yellow vests (Gilets jaunes) against rising oil prices and l

Dec 4, 2018By Choi Won-suk
'Yellow Vest' protest in Paris
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'Yellow vest' protesters in Paris clash with police

Police in Paris fire water cannon, tear gas and stun grenades at ''yellow vest'' protesters demonstrating against diesel prices and the high cost of living. Helen Percival reports.As night falls in Paris, a dozen cars blaze and building is on fire as the ''yellow vest'' protest continues in the French capital. More than 60 people have been injured as violence grips the Champs Elysees and surrounding streets.The protests against diesel tax hikes and the high cost of living in France are now entering their third week.Protests began earlier on Saturday (December 1) morning with riot police using water cannon, tear gas and stun grenades. Police unions said across France there were some 31,000 protesters and 582 blockages.In Paris, over 100 people have been arrested amid concerns that violent far-right and far-left groups were infiltrating the movement. On Friday (November 30) similar scenes played out in Brussels where a peaceful protest of around 500 people descended into violence.The ''yellow vest'' movement is one of France's most sustained challenges to Emman

Dec 2, 2018By Choi Won-suk
'Yellow vest' protesters in Paris clash with police
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Japan preparing first aircraft carrier since World War II

Japan is planning to upgrade at least on of its ships to an aircraft carrier in preparation for a procurement of around 100 U.S. F-35 stealth fighter jets to counter Chinese military expansion in the Pacific.According to the Guardian, Japan plans to upgrade its two Izumo-class helicopter carriers to transport and launch fighter jets.The Nikkei News Service reported that Japan was set to purchase 100 F-35s from the U.S. in a deal worth more than US$8.8 billion.According to CNN, the package includes F-35 A and B models. F-35As are similar to conventional fighter jets that use a runway for take off and landing.F-35Bs have short take off and vertical landing capability, meaning they can be used at smaller airports or operate from flattop warships.Japan's Izumo-class carrier is 814 meters long and can carry up to 14 helicopters.According to former US Navy captain and current Hawaii Pacific University Professor Carl Schuster telling CNN, a refitted Japanese carrier would only be able to carry six to eight F-35Bs.According to Mainichi Shimbun, the carriers would be used to defend Japan's re

Dec 2, 2018By Choi Won-suk
Japan preparing first aircraft carrier since World War II
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Inter-Korean railway link gets on track

South Korean officials have departed for a field study with North Korea to relink railways cut since the 1950-53 Korean conflict. South Korean officials began their 18-day mission to re-link a divided peninsula on Friday (November 30). Around 30 officials - from each side - will be inspecting railways tracks cut since the Korean war.It's the first step in an effort to reconnect rail and road links, between the two Koreas, part of an agreement reached between the leaders in April.The train will travel around 1500 miles, including through the heavily fortified DMZ - a latest sign of detente between two countries technically still at war.The project was given the green light by the UN Security Council last week - which granted exemptions to sanctions that are imposed on NorthKorea for its nuclear program, allowing the cross-border infrastructure project to go ahead.Seoul has said that showed the U.S. and the international community are on board with the project. But Washington has been striking a more cautious tone than its South Korean ally.In spite of pla

Dec 2, 2018By Choi Won-suk
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Let it snow

Rows of parked cars are covered by the first snowfall are seen at a shopping center in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. Temperatures dipped to -6 C (21 F) in Moscow and -10 C (14 F) at night. AP Santa Claus dances in Myeongdong, a shopping district in central Seoul, on Sunday to promote a shopping event. Korea Times photos by Choi Won-suk A cyslist rides past people wearing animal costumes during heavy snowfall, the first in the autumn, in the centre Kiev on November 14, 2018. AFP Giant panda Fu Feng has bamboos in the snow-covered Panda garden at Zoo Vienna in Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 1, 2018. Xinhua A young girl brushes off snow on the Fearless Girl statue in lower Manhattan on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, in New York. AP Founding director of Roncalli Circus, Bernhard Paul (C) poses with members of his ensemble white clown Gensi (L) and clown Chistirrin (down-R) in artificial snow during a photocall for the Roncalli Christmas Circus at the Tempodrom event location in Berlin, Germany, 14 November 2018. EPA A woman is skiing on the snow-covered Mont

Dec 2, 2018By Choi Won-suk
Let it snow
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Poland's air as smoggy as ever

According to the World Health Organization, Poland has some of the most air polluted areas on the planet, ranking alongside places with infamously bad air such as Beijing and New Delhi. Poland has some of the most polluted air on the planet.Coal produces around 80 percent of the country's energy, though the government wants to halve this figure by 2050.University of Silesia researchers are testing air quality, taking to the skies of Katowice in a hot-air balloon with measuring equipment.Handout photo taken and released on November 27, 2018 by environmental organization Greenpeace, shows a Greenpeace activist after he climbed a 180 metre-high chimney at Poland's Belchatow coal-fired power plant Belchatow. AFP via GreenpeacePOST DOCTORAL RESEARCHER AND COORDINATOR OF AIR MONITORING PROJECT AT UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA, MARIOLA JABLONSKA, SAYING:"The smallest particles enter the respiratory system and they have an impact on our health, so knowing the composition and amount of the pollutants' particles in the air is very important."A 2016 World Health Organization report found that 33 o

Nov 28, 2018By Choi Won-suk
Poland's air as smoggy as ever
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As smog war weighs on economy, China coal city bears the brunt.

Jincheng, a town in northern China's Shanxi province, has made noticeable efforts to improve its environment by curbing its polluting industries, but it hasn't completely cleaned up the mess.Mr. Gao, a local shepherd who tends a flock of sheep blackened by the soot from nearby coal mines and plants that have since closed, said that things have improved in recent years."Before, it all used to burn and stink. Everything was polluted. It burned and stank." said Gao.Despite efforts to close dozens of local collieries and chemical plants, the city still failed to meet environmental targets set by the central government.The city came short of meeting its target of cutting concentrations of lung-damaging PM2.5 particles by 10 percent last winter, and recorded 1,819 pollution violations, the most of the 28 cities.After it was ranked the worst performer among 28 northern cities forced to impose special pollution measures, its mayor was summoned to Beijing in April to come up with an explanation.While he admitted embarrassment, he told officials that the pollution cuts were hurting the city's

Nov 28, 2018By Choi Won-suk
As smog war weighs on economy, China coal city bears the brunt.
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NASA's InSight landed on Mars

A handout photo made available by NASA/JPL-Caltech on 11 December 2018 shows NASA InSight's first full selfie on Mars. It displays the lander's solar panels and deck. On top of the deck are its science instruments, weather sensor booms and UHF antenna. The selfie is made up of 11 images which were taken by its Instrument Deployment Camera, located on the elbow of its robotic arm. Those images are then stitched together into a mosaic. EPA NASA engineers on the flight team, Kris Bruvold (L) and Sandy Krasner (R) celebrate the InSight spacecraft's successfull landing on the planet Mars from the Mission Support area in the Space Flight Operations facility at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California on November 26, 2018. Cheers and applause erupted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a $993 million unmanned lander, called InSight, touched down on the Red Planet and managed to send back its first picture. AFP  An undated handout illustration made available by NASA shows a simulated view of NASA's InSight lander descending towards the surface of Mar

Nov 27, 2018By Choi Won-suk
NASA's InSight landed on Mars
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Sandstorm engulfs city in northwest China

A sandstorm swept through parts of northwest China, state media reported on Monday (November 26).State broadcaster CCTV released footage of the moving sandstorm saying strong winds carried dust and sand swallowing Minle county in Gansu province in just five minutes.Traffic police were seen patrolling along highways to help drivers due to limited visibility of less than 100 metres, CCTV added. (Reuters)

Nov 27, 2018By Choi Won-suk
Sandstorm engulfs city in northwest China
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