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Sun, September 24, 2023 | 12:46

Sungnyemun reopens [PHOTOS]

Sungnyemun reopens [PHOTOS]

A guard stands at the entrance of Sungnyemun, also known as Namdaemun - one of the remaining gates that mark the old city of Seoul, then known as Hanseong. The back entrance reopened to the public on June 22, for the first time since the National Treasure was damaged by an arsonist in 2008. The gateway will provide easier access to Namdaemun Market and Seoul Station, said the...

2021-06-23 17:51

Award-winning 'Man in the Mirror' photo captures true self of surgeon-novelist

Award-winning 'Man in the Mirror' photo captures true self of surgeon-novelist

Korea Times photographer Shim Hyun-chul's “The Man in the Mirror” won the Best Portrait Photo of the month award from the Korea Press Photographers' Association. In the award-winning work, Shim zoomed in on the plastic surgeon-novelist Kim You-myung, 50, seen in a mirror in his clinic in Seoul's affluent southern district of Gangnam.

Kang Hyun-kyung | 2021-06-23 13:56

Delivery workers continue strike [PHOTOS]

Delivery workers continue strike [PHOTOS]

A pile of unsorted parcels at a logistics center in Songpa District, Seoul, as delivery workers continue their strike for better working conditions, June 16. Workers have demanded that logistics companies hire additional employees to sort parcels, which they say is the main cause of existing employees' overwork. The government offered them a deal to reduce their work to 60 ho...

2021-06-16 15:12

Moon at the G7 summit in the UK [PHOTOS]

Moon at the G7 summit in the UK [PHOTOS]

Front row from left, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, France's President Emmanuel Macron, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, U.S. President Joe Biden; from left in the second row, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morr...

2021-06-13 15:31

G7 calls for 'complete' denuclearization of Korean Peninsula

G7's rivalry with China complicates Korea's balancing act

Moon joins G-7 summit, vows financial support for global vaccine supply

Students back in school in South Jeolla Province [PHOTOS]

Students back in school in South Jeolla Province [PHOTOS]

Students at Mandeok Elementary school play traditional Korean musical instruments during an afterschool class in Damyang, South Jeolla Province, June 7. South Jeolla Province was the first region to allow all students to attend in-person classes. A total of 822 elementary, middle and high schools started face-to-face classes for approximately 203,000 students, Monday.

2021-06-08 15:56

Jongmyo's 'sinju' moved for repair work [PHOTOS]

Jongmyo's 'sinju' moved for repair work [PHOTOS]

Officials dressed in hanbok move 49 pieces of “sinju” - wooden tablets of kings and queens of the Joseon Kingdom - from Jongmyo Shrine to Changdeok Palace, June 5. The pavilion in which the tablets were enshrined will undergo renovation. The large-scale relocation is the first in 151 years.

2021-06-07 15:39

Wearing raincoats from Joseon era [PHOTOS]

Wearing raincoats from Joseon era [PHOTOS]

Gatekeepers dressed in "dorongis" - capes to protect the wearer from rain believed to be from the Joseon Kingdom - walk in line to take shifts at the central gate of Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul, June 3.

2021-06-04 14:49

A relaxing Sunday by the Han River [PHOTOS]

A relaxing Sunday by the Han River [PHOTOS]

Banpo Hangang Park is crowded with visitors, May 30.

2021-05-31 13:02

Roses in full bloom [PHOTOS]

Roses in full bloom [PHOTOS]

A man holding a rainbow umbrella takes a photo of red roses in full bloom at the Rose Park in Gokseong, South Jeolla Province, May 25. The annual World Rose Festival was canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021-05-26 15:45

Transplanting rice seedlings at Changdeok Palace [PHOTOS]

Transplanting rice seedlings at Changdeok Palace [PHOTOS]

Workers wearing white hanbok hand-transplant rice seedlings in the paddy in Changdeok Palace's Secret Garden, Seoul, May 24. This annual event was held without visitors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021-05-24 16:44

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