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Makeup time

A participant in the 2015 Seoul International Human Olympic puts lipstick on a model’s lips during a makeup event at the handball stadium in the Olympic Park, Seoul, Thursday./ Yonhap

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Deadlocked constituency talks

The leaders of the ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy (NPAD) listen to a participant during an inter-party meeting on redrawing constituencies at the National Assembly, Wednesday. The rival parties held high-level talks for a second consecutive day, but failed to narrow differences on how to redraw the electoral map in preparation for next year’s general election, said party officials. From left are NPAD floor leader Rep. Lee Jong-kul, NPAD Chairman Rep. Moon Jae-in, Saenuri Party Chairman Rep. Kim Moo-sung and Saenuri Party floor leader Rep. Won Yoo-chul. / Yonhap

Charity kimchi making

Residents in Geumcheon District in Seoul make kimchi at an apartment complex in the district to give the food to low-income people for winter, Wednesday. / Yonhap

Good luck!

Junior students at Pungmoon Girls’ High School in Seoul cheer senior students leaving the school to check the venues of the College Scholastic Ability Test, Wednesday, a day before the annual exam which more than 630,000 will take this year. Public offices and banks will open at 10 a.m., an hour after their usual opening time, to ease morning traffic for test-takers. During the English listening test between 1:05 p.m. and 1:40 p.m., no flights will be allowed to land or takeoff. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

Black Hawk down as 'supercopter' hovers

/Screen capture from TwitterA high-tech rotorcraft machine dubbed the “supercopter” will soon replace the long-serving Black Hawk helicopter in the U.S. Army.As part of the Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program, two teams - Sikorsky & Boeing and Bell - are competing to secure the contract for the Black Hawk’s replacement, building a high-speed vertical-lift craft.Both are expected to start testing their rotorcraft in 2017.The designs are quite different.The Sikorsky-Boeing prototype, the SB-1 Defiant, is a compound helicopter design with co-axial rotors and a pusher-propeller.SB-1 Defiant /Screen capture from Twitter Bell’s prototype, the V-280 Valor, is an advanced tilt-rotor design based on technology similar to the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey.V-280 Valor /Screen capture from TwitterMeanwhile, two other teams, Karem Aircraft and AVX Aircraft, were not selected for the contract, but the U.S. Army is keeping an eye on their technologies.

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Essay contest winners

Woori Bank President & CEO Lee Kwang-goo, third from right, and Korea Times President-Publisher Lee Chang-sup, third from left, stand together with winners of the 11th English Economic Essay Contest awarding ceremony held at the Plaza Hotel in central Seoul, Tuesday. From left are third-prize winner Choi Si-young; Jhung So-hyun who represents third-prize winner Lee Dong-min; Lee; Oh Yun-kyung who represents first-prize winner Tuneer De; Woori Bank’s Lee; first-prize winner Lim Jee-soo; and third-prize winner Kim Hyeong-in./ Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk

Happy Garaetteok Day!

Participants of an event to make “garaetteok” pose holding the freshly made cylindrical rice cakes in Insa-dong, Seoul, Tuesday, a day before Garaetteok Day, which farmers and the government have celebrated to boost rice consumption on Nov. 11. / Yonhap

Diamond wedding

Korean War veterans and their wives walk down aisle during an event to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary at the WarMemorial of Korea in Yongsan, central Seoul, Tuesday. The Seoul Regional Office of Patriots and Veterans Affairs organized the event as part of programs to mark the 65th anniversary of the start of the 1950-53 Korean War. / Yonhap