The exhibition "Landscapes of Homeland and Longing" at the Seoul branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) commemorates the 80th anniversary of national liberation. (MMCA)
By Charles AudouinAn exhibition to commemorate the 80th anniversary of liberation features landscape paintings focused on hometowns in the country...
Seodaemun Prison History Hall (Seodaemun Prison History Hall)
By Lee Jihae
Seodaemun Prison History Hall in Seoul's Seodaemun-gu District was a modern prison built by imperial Japan in 1907 and opened the following year. The facility is now a site that teaches the painful history of the...
President Lee Jae Myung on Aug. 15 delivers a speech at a ceremony marking the 80th Liberation Day at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul's Jongno-gu District. (Office of the President)
By Jeon Misun
President Lee Jae Myung on Aug. 15 urged North Korea...
President Lee Jae Myung (right) on June 17 shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Group of Seven Summit in Kananaskis, a district in Canada's Alberta province. (Office of the President)
By Margareth TheresiaPresident Lee Jae Myung on Aug. 23 will attend summit talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru...
To mark its 20th anniversary, the National Palace Museum of Korea from Aug. 14 through Oct. 12 hosts the exhibition "Respectfully Portrayed Murals" at Changdeokgung Palace in Seoul. Shown is the official poster for the exhibition. (Korea Heritage Service)
By Lee JihaeSix murals, the last six royal court paintings of the...
The Japanese empire on Aug. 15, 1945, signed the Potsdam Declaration of the Allies in accepting unconditional surrender in World War II. This was the moment when the Korean people were liberated from colonial rule and regained their sovereignty, the culmination of their fight for independence that they risked their lives for to oppose Japanese subjugation.Today, the...
Kim Han-soo (right), director general for protocol and state council at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, on Aug. 13 gives a briefing at Government Complex-Seoul in Seoul's Jongno-gu District on the Aug. 15 celebration to mark the 80th anniversary of liberation and the "people's appointment ceremony" for President Lee Jae Myung....
Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Song Mi-ryung (middle) on Aug. 11 holds a joint news conference with Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Shinziro Koizumi (left) and Chinese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Jun on the results of their trilateral summit at Hotel Paradise in Incheon. (Ministry of Agriculture, Food...
President Lee Jae Myung (right) and Vietnam's top leader To Lam on Aug. 11 pose for a photo at their bilateral summit held by the Office of the President in Seoul. (Office of the President)
By Lee JihaeKorea and Vietnam have pledged to raise bilateral trade to USD 150 billion (KRW...
Lee Jiyoon (left), deputy director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' International Economic Affairs Bureau, on Aug. 11 poses with Eduardo Pedrosa, executive director of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat, while holding up the two copies of a memorandum of understanding on the launch of the APEC Sub-Fund on Prosperity of Future Generations at the APEC Senior Officials Meeting in...
The hit "Golden" from the soundtrack to the Netflix animated musical "KPop Demon Hunters" on Aug. 11 topped Billboard's main singles chart Hot 100. (Netflix)
By Kang Gahui
The hit "Golden" from the soundtrack to the Netflix animated musical "KPop Demon Hunters" has topped Billboard's main singles chart Hot 100.The...
Lee Na-Young, chair of the board of the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, on July 24 takes a photo in front of a drawing by victim Kang Duk-kyung.
By Lee JihaePhotos = Lee JihaeAug. 14 is International Memorial Day for...
Visitors to the Hwacheon Tomato Festival on Aug. 2 look for the golden ring in a vast tomato pool in Sachang-ri, a village in Sanae-myeon Township of Hwacheon-gun County, Gangwon-do Province.
By Kim Seon AhPhotos = Lee JeongwooHwacheon-gun County, Gangwon-do Province, is famous for sancheoneo (mountain trout) and tomatoes.From Aug. 1-3, the...
Billboard on July 30 released the story "K-Pop Fandom in the U.S." based on its survey of 1,400 K-pop fans in America aged 14 and above. Shown is a scene from this year's My K-Festa's K-pop concert on June 19 at KSpo Dome in Seoul's Songpa-gu District. (My K-Festa's official website)
Overseas sales of Korean literature last year more than doubled from 2023. Shown are the English-language editions of Korean novels at Kyobo Book Centre's Gwanghwamun branch in Seoul's Jongno-gu District. (Lee Jihae)
By Lee JihaeOverseas sales of Korean literature last year more than doubled from 2023, thanks in large part...
The Ministry of Science and ICT on Aug. 4 hosted the inaugural Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting of digital and artificial intelligence ministers at the convention center Songdo Convensia in Incheon's Yeonsu-gu District. Minister Bae Kyunghoon is shown holding a news briefing for the event. (Ministry of Science and ICT)By Lee Dasom
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) in their joint event "Commemorating 80th Anniversary of National Liberation via Tourism" will promote 13 destinations related to independence from among the nation's top 100 tourist attractions. On the left is Mudeungsan National Park in Gwangju and on the right...
By Jeon MisunPhotos = Lee Jeongwoo
This summer in Korea has been unusually hot, but the sheer fun and energy at the annual Boryeong Mud Festival held at Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, Chungcheongnam-do Province, has helped people forget the heat wave.Participants covered in mud were so immersed that it was difficult to recognize them,...
Over 60% of youth from multicultural families attend college, a survey says. Shown are two students from such families at Korea Polytechnic Dasom High School in Jecheon, Chungcheongbuk-do Province, posing for a photo while showing their national technical certifications. (Ministry of Employment and Labor)
By Jeon Misun
Over...
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on July 31 announced that it will start construction of a next-generation power grid using domestic know-how. Shown is a solar power plant in the village of Gudae-ri on Anjwado (Purple) Island in Sinan-gun County, Jeollanam-do Province. (Sinan-gun County Office)
By Aisylu Akhmetzianova
The government's...