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Another controversy

President Moon Jae-in poses with Cho Hae-ju, newly appointed commissioner of the National Election Commission, at Cheong Wa Dae, Thursday. Moon appointed Cho to the minister-level post without requesting a National Assembly hearing. The main opposition Liberty Korea Party, which has opposed Cho citing his ideological bias, vowed to boycott National Assembly sessions in February. / Yonhap

Jan 24, 2019By Park Ji-won

'We are Koreans now'

Naturalized Korean citizens hold the Taegukgi or Korean national flag after receiving certificates of their new nationality at Incheon Immigration Office, Tuesday. / Yonhap

Jan 22, 2019By Kim Hyun-bin

Welcoming snow

Tourists photograph themselves at Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul amid a light snowfall, Monday. The temperature will rise slightly on Tuesday and Wednesday, but fine dust will again shroud some parts of Chungcheong and Jeolla provinces, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration. / Yonhap

Jan 21, 2019

Ice fishing craze

Thousands of people fish for trout at the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon County, Gangwon Province, Sunday. More than 1.3 million people have participated in the festival since Jan. 5, including about 100,000 foreign visitors. / Yonhap

Jan 20, 2019By Kim Hyun-bin

Recovery from gas poisoning

Two students from Daesung High School in Seoul leave Wonju Severance Christian Hospital, Friday, after fully recovering from carbon monoxide poisoning last month at a guesthouse in Gangneung, Gangwon Province. Seven students, who were left unconscious by fumes from a faulty ventilation pipe, have been released from hospital. Three others were killed. / Yonhap

Jan 18, 2019By Kim Jae-heun

Demanding probe into nurse's death

Members of the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers' Union demand the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the affiliated Seoul Medical Center to launch a fact-finding committee over the suicide of a nurse at the hospital who allegedly suffered bullying from colleagues, during a press conference in front of the City Hall, Thursday. / Yonhap

Jan 17, 2019By Kim Jae-heun

'Extend subway line to Pocheon'

A resident from Pocheon in northern Gyeonggi Province has his head shaved at Gwanghwamun Square, Seoul, Wednesday, in a show of protest calling for the speedy extension of Seoul Metro Line 7 to his city. Thousands of Pocheon residents rallied and claimed the government should provide rail infrastructure as compensation for the city's lack of development, as the city could not develop properly due to large military training sites there. Yonhap

Jan 16, 2019

Unfinished 'Yongsan disaster'

Civic groups and family members of the deceased tenants in the Yongsan Disaster, a clash between tenants and police in a redevelopment area, call for punishment of those responsible for the forced eviction, in a rally near Cheong Wa Dae, Seoul, Tuesday, before the 10th anniversary of the incident that falls on Jan. 20. Five tenants and one policeman died in a deadly fire that broke out during a rooftop clash at a building in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, in 2009. / Yonhap

Jan 15, 2019

Desperate efforts

A visitor looks into a hole drilled into the ice to enable the catching of sancheoneo during the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Jinbu, PyeongChang County, Sunday. Following its start Jan. 5, the number of visitors to the annual event has topped the 1 million mark for the 13th straight year. Sancheoneo in Korean means mountain trout. Yonhap

Jan 13, 2019By Kang Seung-woo

For better working conditions

The mother of Kim Yong-gyun, an irregular worker who was killed while working at a power plant in December, demands the government give permanent job status to irregular workers in the public sector, during a press conference held at the Franciscan Education Center in Seoul, Friday, one month after his death. Kim died after being stuck in a conveyer belt at the Taean Power Plant operated by the state-run Korea Western Power in South Chungcheong Province. / Yonhap

Jan 11, 2019

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