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Mexican and Korean fans gather at Seoul's Gwanghwamun Square during Korea's second group stage match against Mexico at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Friday. Korea lost the match 0-1. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
A woman carrying a dog casts her ballot at a polling station in Seoul's Songpa District, Wednesday. Voters will elect 16 metropolitan city mayors and provincial governors, 227 local government heads, 3,973 local council members and 16 education superintendents. Yonhap
Malta-flagged tanker Odessa, carrying 1 million barrels of imported crude oil from the United Arab Emirates, arrives in Seosan, South Chungcheong Province, Friday, after passing through the Strait of Hormuz in mid-April. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
Jennie of BLACKPINK arrives at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Costume Art" exhibition in New York, May 4. AP-Yonhap
Maestro Chung Myung-whun acknowledges the audience with the KBS Symphony Orchestra during The Korea Times Spring Concert at Lotte Concert Hall in Sopa District, Seoul, April 17, which presented Bizet’s opera “Carmen” in concert format. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk
With daytime temperatures reaching up to 25 degrees Celsius, people at Gwanghwamun Square sport short sleeves as unseasonably warm, early summer weather arrives in Seoul, Monday. Yonhap
Cherry blossom trees are in full bloom with N Seoul Tower in the background at Namsan Park in central Seoul, Monday. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
A child wearing an astronaut costume gives a thumbs up in Titusville, Fla., on the day of the launch of the next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion crew capsule, part of NASA's Artemis II lunar flyby mission, from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, April 1. Reuters-Yonhap
BTS fans cheer during the band's comeback concert in Seoul, Saturday. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul