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Preparing for Chuseok

Foreign wives learn how to make “songpyeon,” rice cakes in the shape of a half moon eaten for Chuseok, at a community center in Songpa-gu, Seoul, Tuesday./ Yonhap

Today's topic news 20~30대 청년, 북한과 전쟁 나면 참전하겠다

Experiencing Korean holiday

Foreigners make “songpyeon,” half-moon-shaped rice cakes traditionally eaten on the Chuseok holiday, at the National Folk Museum of Korea, central Seoul, Monday. Chuseok falls on Sept. 27. / Yonhap 

Preparations for 2018 Olympics

Cho Yang-ho, left, chairman of Hanjin Group and head of the organizing committee for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, smiles while speaking with Trade, Industry and Energy Minister Yoon Sang-jick, Monday. Committee members and government officials held a meeting to discuss preparations for the Winter Olympics at the government complex in Seoul. / Yonhap

Archery competition

Archers on Sunday take part in the Nationwide Archery Competition in Hwanghakjeong, the royal archery field. It was built by King Gojong in 1899 to encourage archery at Gyeonghui Palace, in Jongno, central Seoul. Competitors from some 350 regional clubs and teams nationwide have joined the competition./ Yonhap

Park's new pets

President Park Geun-hye poses with five puppies that she recently asked the public to give names in this photo released by Cheong Wa Dae, Sunday. Through Facebook, Park publicly asked citizens to name the newly-born puppies after they were born to one of two Jindo dogs that she received as presents after winning the 2012 presidential election. Each puppy is named peace, unification, Geumgang, Halla and Baekdu, the words that symbolizes South Korea’s efforts for inter-Korean unification./ Yonhap

Homecoming after decades

Korean and Japanese activists carry the remains of 115 Koreans who died in Japan while providing forced labor during the colonial era, after arriving at a port in Busan from Hokkaido, Japan,Friday. The remains, which had been buried on the Japanese island, were retrieved through the work of activists, students and religious groups from the two countries since 1997. / Yonhap

Today's topic news 김좌진 장군 증손자 바다 지킨다

Snack-bag rafts

Children cross a stream using rafts made of bags of snacks in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, Thursday. / Yonhap

Prime Minister in Paris

Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, right, and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, center, visit the inauguration of the exhibition “Korea Now” at the Arts Decoratifs Museum in Paris, Wednesday, as part of the opening of the 2015-2016 France-Korea cultural season. Hwang arrived in the French capital for a five-day trip to mark the 130th anniversary of the country’s diplomatic ties with France, which falls next year. / AFP-Yonhap