Picture of the Day: Snowy Seomyeon
| March 19, 2025
Category: Picture of the Day
Picture of the Day: Snow Hits Gangwon-do
| March 18, 2025
Picture of the Day: Pro-Yoon Protest in Seoul
| March 17, 2025
A barricade of police buses is set up at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on March 15, 2025, as protesters hold a rally opposing impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ouster ahead of a court verdict on his fate. (Yonhap)
Picture of the Day: Korean Air’s New Airplane Branding
| March 14, 2025
A Boeing 787-10 aircraft of Korean Air Co., South Korea’s flagship air carrier, bears the airline’s new aircraft livery, or the exterior insignia for planes, during a publicity event at its hangar in Seoul on March 11, 2025. The new design prominently displays “KOREAN” in large lettering on the aircraft’s forward fuselage but without “AIR” from the company’s full name. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)
Picture of the Day: Independence Movement Reenactment
| March 13, 2025
People clad in traditional costumes clash with others portraying Japanese police officers in the southeastern port city of Busan on March 11, 2025, reenacting the independence movement in 1919, which students of Busanjin Ilshin Girls’ School led as part of the popular movement the same year that protested for independence from Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (Yonhap)
Picture of the Day: Chief of ROK Air Force Apologizes for Accidental Bombing Strike
| March 12, 2025
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Lee Young-su bows while issuing a public apology during a briefing at the Ministry of National Defense in Seoul, Monday, after Air Force fighter jets accidentally dropped bombs on residential areas last Thursday. Yonhap
Picture of the Day: Dancing Robot
| March 11, 2025
A 2.4-meter tall robot dances in front of an audience at the Seoul AI Festa at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on March 9, 2025. (Yonhap)
Picture of the Day: Opposition Party Protests Yoon’s Release
| March 10, 2025
Lawmakers of the main opposition Democratic Party, including its chief Lee Jae-myung (C, 1st row), rally during a hastily convened meeting at the National Assembly in Seoul on March 8, 2025, in protest of the prosecution’s decision not to appeal a court’s ruling the previous day that allowed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to stand trial without physical detention over his failed bid to impose martial law in December. (Yonhap)
Picture of the Day: Live Fire Training Near Pocheon
| March 7, 2025
An Apache attack helicopter fires rockets over the Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, just 25 kilometers south of the inter-Korean border, on March 6, 2025, during live-fire drills that the Army’s Capital Mechanized Infantry Division conducted with U.S. forces. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)
A Record Number of Foreigners Are Now Residents of South Korea
| March 5, 2025
If it seems like there are a lot of foreigners living in South Korea now a days it is because there are compared to the recent past:
The number of foreign residents in Korea reached a record high last year, accounting for more than 5 percent of the country’s total population, justice ministry data showed Monday.
According to the Korea Immigration Service, a justice ministry agency, the number of foreigners living in Korea stood at 2.65 million, making up 5.17 percent of the total population. This marks an increase of 126,127 from the previous high in 2019 and surpasses the 4.89 percent level recorded in 2023.
Over the past decade, Korea has seen a steady rise in foreign residents, from 1.9 million in 2015 to 2.52 million in 2019. Although the numbers declined due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they rebounded in 2022 and have continued to rise since.
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