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Saluting the flag

President Moon Jae-in, presidential aides and ministers salute the national flag before holding a Cabinet meeting at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, Tuesday. At the meeting, Moon urged the National Assembly to quickly pass the government bill on an extra budget to improve the people's livelihoods. / Joint press corps

May 8, 2018

Happy Parents' Day

Calligrapher Kim Dong-wook writes the Chinese character “hyo” (xiao), which represents filial piety in Confucian philosophy, at Gwanghwamun Plaza in Seoul, Monday. May 8 is Parents' Day. Yonhap

May 7, 2018

Ready for lifting

A set of maritime cranes stand behind the salvaged ferry Sewol at Mokpo New Port, 410 kilometers southwest of Seoul, Saturday, to raise it upright, May 10. The 6,825-ton vessel carrying 476 passengers capsized off the southwestern coast on April 16, 2014, killing 304 people _ most of them high school students on a field trip to Jeju Island. / Yonhap

May 6, 2018

Ministers meet islanders

Ministers listen to residents of Baengnyeong Island and Yeonpyeong Island located near the Northern Limit Line (NLL), during their visit to Baengnyeong Island on Saturday. In the inter-Korean declaration signed on April 27, the two Koreas agreed to set up a “peace zone” in the disputed maritime borderline to prevent accidental clashes in the West Sea. From right are Oceans Minister Kim Young-choon, Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and Defense Minister Song Young-moo. / Yonhap

May 6, 2018

F-22 Raptors in Korea

An F-22 Raptor stealth aircraft takes off from an airbase in the southwestern city of Gwangju, Wednesday. The U.S. has sent eight F-22 jets to South Korea for the Max Thunder joint exercise, which kicks off its two-week run May 11. But some experts say the deployment is aimed at stepping up pressure on North Korea ahead of an upcoming summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. / Yonhap

May 2, 2018

Hungarian wine in Seoul

Hungarian Ambassador to Korea Gabor Csaba, third from left, poses during the Hungarian Wine Dinner party at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul, Monday. From left are Dr. Budai Gyula, commissioner at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary; Kim Hyun-myung, executive vice chairman of the Korea Importers Association; Csaba; Choi Hoon, publisher of Wine Review magazine; Seo Dae-won, former ambassador to Hungary; and Jeong Il-jeong, director general of Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

Apr 30, 2018

Running for re-election

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon speaks at an event about saving energy at Seoul Plaza on April 22, Earth Day. The incumbent mayor easily clinched the nomination of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea for the mayoral election in June, receiving 66.26 percent of the votes in the primary, beating two rival contenders _ Reps. Woo Sang-ho and Park Young-sun. He is set to vie with Kim Moon-soo, the nominee from the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, and Ahn Cheol-soo from the minor opposition Bareun Mirae Party. / Yonhap

Apr 22, 2018

Korea Times CEO meets Moon

The Korea Times President Lee Byeong-eon, left, shakes hands with President Moon Jae-in at a luncheon for media CEOs held at Cheong Wa Dae, Thursday. /  Korea Times photo by Koh Young-kwon

Apr 19, 2018

President meets opposition leader

President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with Liberty Korea Party (LKP) Chairman Hong Joon-pyo before their talks at Cheong Wa Dae, Friday. In the meeting arranged at Moon's request, the President asked for the opposition party's cooperation for planned summits between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Moon, and Kim and President Donald Trump. In response, Hong said that he welcomes the summits where complete denuclearization of the North will be discussed, but opposes the phased resolution of the nuclear issue, adding past failures should not be repeated. Hong also urged Moon to dismiss controversial Financial Supervisory Service chief Kim Ki-sik and withdraw his proposal for a constitutional revision. / Courtesy of Cheong Wa Dae

Apr 13, 2018

In honor of provisional government

Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon, second from left, and Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs Pi Woo-jin, left, wave the national flag (Taegukgi) at an event to mark the 99th anniversary of the establishment of the provisional government of Korea in 1919, at Kim Koo Museum and Library in Seoul, Friday. Lee said the government will change the anniversary to April 11, from April 13, starting next year in accordance with academic research. / Yonhap