[Photo News] Taste of Southeast Asia

ASEAN-Korea Center Secretary-General Kim Hae-yong (sixth from right) and ambassadors representing the member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the commencement of ASEAN Trade Fair 2022 on Tuesday at Kintex in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province. The event, held in conjunction with local food exhibition Seoul Food 2022, runs through Friday and showcases food and beverage products from Southeast Asian companies. Officials from South Korea

IndustryJune 9, 2022

[Photo News] At a stop

Mixer trucks are seen parked at a garage in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province, on Wednesday, the second day of the Cargo Truckers Solidarity strike. South Korean truckers, under the hard-line umbrella group Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, went on an indefinite strike a day earlier, demanding the expansion of the Safe Trucking Freight Rates System and an increase in freight charges.

IndustryJune 8, 2022

[Photo News] UN-Habitat partners with Oceanix

UN-HABITAT PARTNERS WITH OCEANIX -- The UN-Habitat Korean National Committee signed a memorandum of understanding with Oceanix, a New York-based “blue tech” company, at its Yeouido office in Seoul on Tuesday. This agreement was designed to realize the world‘s first sustainable sea city pilot model, “Oceanix Busan,” unveiled at the UN headquarters in New York on April 26 as a successful business at the international level. From left are UN-Habitat Korean National Co

Foreign AffairsJune 7, 2022

[Photo News] Hybrid electric race

Hyundai Motor‘s hybrid vehicle, i20 N Rally1, is seen racing at the fifth round of the 2022 World Rally Championship held on the Italian island of Sardinia between Thursday and Sunday. Two drivers in Hyundai‘s world rally team came in first and third, awarding the South Korean carmaker its fifth win at the championship’s Italian events. The 2022 WRC is the first year in the championship’s history where hybrid electric-powered units fully replaced internal combustion engin

IndustryJune 6, 2022

[Photo News] The day after the election

No more loud music, street banners and canvassing trucks. Local elections are over in South Korea now. The usual post-election scenes here include winners making a visit to symbolic sites such as a war memorial as a show of their commitment to serving the people, while losers take time to reflect on the results. Similar scenes took place on Thursday. Here are some photos that show what went down a day after the nationwide local elections, which came just three months after a nail-biting presi

PoliticsJune 2, 2022

[Photo News] BMW M celebrates 50th anniversary

BMW’s M division vehicles are on display at the BMW Driving Center located in Yeongjongdo, Incheon, on Thursday. BMW Korea plans to hold a series of promotional events, including a special exhibition at the center to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the German carmaker’s high-performance motorsport brand for the next two months. (BMW Korea)

IndustryJune 2, 2022

[Photo news] Egg prices to rise

Egg cartons fill the shelves at a hypermarket in Seoul on Wednesday. South Korea-based Maeil Dairies raised the shipping prices of products ranging from eggs to processed milk and flavored milk up to 11 percent amid inflation woes, beginning Wednesday. (Yonhap)

IndustryJune 1, 2022

[Photo News] Election Day scenes in S. Korea

South Koreans across the country headed to the polls Wednesday morning in nationwide local elections, results of which could determine how much momentum the newly launched Yoon Suk-yeol administration will have in pushing its agendas. The voting booths opened at 6 a.m. across the country, with 17 leadership positions at metropolitan or provincial levels, 226 heads of lower-level administrative levels at stake. The elections will also pick the seats at metropolitan, provincial and lower-level re

PoliticsJune 1, 2022

[Photo News] Hello Japan

Passengers get ready to depart to Fukuoka, Japan, from Gimhae International Airport near Busan on Tuesday, as the airport opened the route to the Japanese city for the first time since its pandemic closure two years ago. Gimhae became the first regional base gateway in South Korea, outside of Incheon International Airport, to resume passenger flight services to Japan.

IndustryMay 31, 2022

[Photo News] ALL CLEANED UP

A 19th century folding screen painting from Korea, “The Joyous Banquet of Guo Ziyi,” owned by the Art Institute of Chicago, is revealed to the press Monday after extensive conservation work. Jung-jae Conservation Center began work on the Joseon period work last August, funded by the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation.  Regarded by experts as being on par with royal court paintings, the restored folding screen will be available for public viewing at the Art Institute o

CultureMay 31, 2022

[Photo News] Fresh Monday

Buses are seen operating in central Seoul on Monday. Bus and taxi drivers are eligible for the COVID-19 cash handouts worth 3 million won ($2,400) as part of the government‘s 62 trillion won extra budget bill, which was approved by the parliament on the same day.

IndustryMay 30, 2022

[Photo News] World of Doughnuts

Doughnuts of various colors and ingredients are on display at a cafe and bakery fair held in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday.

ConsumerMay 26, 2022

[Photo News] Canvas for NFT Art

LG Display said Wednesday that media artist Refik Anadol’s “An Important Memory for Humanity,” a non-fungible token work of art on its transparent OLED display, recently raked in $6.2 million at auction. LG is the sole producer of a large-size transparent OLED display that boasts glass-like clarity to be used across industries, including digital art.

TechnologyMay 25, 2022

[Photo News] Battery Power

Volkswagen ID.4 GTX, powered by LG Energy Solution‘s battery cells and modules, is seen climbing up the dormant Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia in this photo released by the South Korean battery maker. German long-distance driver Rainer Zietlow and his Challenge4 team won a new Guinness World Records title for the highest altitude reached with electric cars.

TechnologyMay 24, 2022

[Photo News] When Biden was in Seoul

Lotte World Tower, the world’s fifth-tallest building, located in Jamsil, Seoul, is illuminated with images of US and Korean flags and messages welcoming the US president during his three-day visit to Korea. President Joe Biden left Sunday afternoon for the second leg of his Asia tour.

IndustryMay 22, 2022

[Photo News] Flour under pressure

A man looks around a flour section at a discount store in Seoul on Wednesday amid growing concerns over possible grain price hike with India‘s wheat export ban.

IndustryMay 18, 2022

[Photo News] Consumer price woes

A customer looks around a cosmetics section of a department store in Seoul. Manufacturers for health and beauty products have been under increasing pressure to raise product prices amid the prolonged Russian attack on Ukraine and intensifying concerns over Indonesia’s palm oil export ban.

IndustryMay 17, 2022

[Photo News] Season of watermelon

Watermelons are on sale at a traditional market in Seoul on Thursday as temperature went up to 28 degrees Celcius during the day, hotter than the usual.

IndustryMay 12, 2022

[Photo news] First lady captured in photos

Tuesday did not just mark the start of a new government led by President Yoon Suk-yeol. It also marked the first official debut -- at least in the eyes of the public -- of first lady Kim Keon-hee, who has been ostensibly missing on the campaign trail. Kim, 49, has been keeping a low profile for months after being embroiled in various controversies surrounding her past, including an allegation that she falsified credentials to take a part-time lecturer seat at a local university. She delivered

PoliticsMay 11, 2022

[Photo News] OLED that folds 360 degrees

This photo unveiled Tuesday shows an 8-inch, 360-degree folding organic light-emitting diode screen for mobile devices by South Korean panel maker LG Display. It was showcased during Display Week 2022 hosted by the Society for Information Display from Sunday to Friday in San Jose, California. According to LG Display, the screen can be folded over 200,000 times without affecting its performance.

TechnologyMay 10, 2022