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In memory of husband

Lee Hee-ho, the widow of former President Kim Dae-jung, walks toward a memorial altar for her husband to lay a wreath during a ceremony to mark the sixth anniversary of Kim’s death, at the National Cemetery in Seoul, Tuesday. Kim, the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, passed away from natural causes at the age of 83./ Yonhap

Multicultural family support

Members of a group of foreign women make small flowerpots at the Mapogu Multicultural Family Support Center in Seoul, Monday. The group called “Wonderful” consists of eight women from four countries./ Yonhap

Daddy returns

Sailor Cho Hae-soo lifts his 3-year-old son in front of the 4,400-ton Navy destroyer Wang Geon at a naval base in Busan, Monday. Cho was among the 18th contingent of the Navy’s Cheonghae Unit which returned home safely after completing missions in waters off the Gulf of Aden for six months./ Yonhap

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Cliff diving

A competitor dives from the Old Mostar Bridge during the sixth stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2015 in Mostar, Bosnia, Saturday. Fourteen of the world’s best competitors took part in the competition diving from a 27-meter high bridge over the river of Neretva./ AP-Yonhap

Autumn is approaching

Cosmos flowers are in full bloom at Olympic Park in southern Seoul, Sunday. The heat will continue until the middle of the week but will cool afterwards with the possibility of rainfall across the country./ Yonhap

Happy day for Singapore

The Embassy of Singapore celebrated the country’s national day with a reception at the Grand Hyatt Seoul on August 12. From left, the Ambassador of Brunei, Dato Mohd Rosli Sabtu, the Ambassador of the Philippines, Raul S. Hernandez, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Song Min-Soon, the Ambassador of Singapore, Yip Wei Kiat, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Yoo Il-ho and the Ambassador of Malaysia, Dato Rohana binti Ramli./ Courtesy of the Embassy of Singapore

Home of nation's 1st President

Ruling Saenuri Party Chairman Rep. Kim Moo-sung, second from right, talks with an official at Ehwajang, the residence of South Korea’s first President Syngman Rhee, in Jongno-gu, central Seoul, Friday. Kim visited the home of the late Rhee as part of his tour of historical sites in Seoul that are related to Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule (1910-45). / Yonhap

Burning NK flags

Members of the Korean Disabled Veterans’ Association by Agent-Orange in the Vietnam War burn North Korean flags and photographs of the Kim family on the Unification Bridge in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday, to protest a recent landmine attack./ Yonhap

Taegeukgi at beach

To celebrate the nation’s 70th anniversary of liberation from Japanese colonial rule (1910-45), a 30-by-20 meter Taegeukgi, the Korean national flag, is unfurled on Haeundae Beach in the southeastern port city of Busan, Thursday./ Korea Times photo by Jeon Hye-won