‘Yoon again’: calls for ousted South Korean president’s return as political rift deepens
Former South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol shakes hands with his supporters as he leaves the presidential residence on Friday, a week after the country’s top court upheld his impeachment. Photo: Kim Jung-yeop
As South Korea election nears, Chinese residents in Seoul ‘stay quiet’ amid rising hostility
The streets of Jayang-dong, a neighbourhood in Seoul, South Korea, dubbed “Little China”. Photo: Kim Jung-yeop
South Korea’s ‘Warmth Mailbox’ delivers handwritten hope in an age of digital loneliness
A man submits a letter to the “Warmth Mailbox” located on the campus of Konkuk University, western Seoul. Photo: Kim Jung-yeop
South Korea’s surprising new face of public safety: dog walkers
Volunteer Lim Won-joo and her pomeranian Tori patrol their neighbourhood in eastern Seoul as part of the city’s Pet Patrol programme. Photo: Kim Jung-yeop
How Thai monks use sacred saffron rituals to save trees
Monks wrap a large tree in a saffron robe as part of a tree ordination ceremony in Chaiyaphum province, Thailand, on July 11. The ritual symbolically ordains the tree as a monk to protect it from logging. Photo: Kim Jung-yeop
South Korea’s atomic bomb survivors just want to be heard
Memorial tablets bearing the names of Korean victims of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings line an altar at a shrine in Hapcheon County. Photo: Kim Jung-yeop
