Photos, 13 August 2006

Incheon on Alert After London ‘Foils’ Terror Attack

A SWAT team of Incheon Metropolitan Police patrols Incheon International Airport on Friday, after the U.K. said it foiled an attempt to blow up U.S.-bound planes./Yonhap




AP Photo/ Ahn Young-joon

One of the few units I've seen with the UMP; MP5 data. While the UMP has a slower rate of fire than the MP5 (but when you're over 500 rounds per minute, does it really matter), but its advantage is that it is also available in .40 and .45 variants.


Reminiscing about childhood toys: A man shows robots featured in 1960s’ animation “Astro Boy,” known as “Mighty Atom” in South Korea to his children at the Children’s Grand Park in eastern Seoul, Sunday. The Robot Exhibition 2006 will continue until October. /Yonhap

Shoppers look at this year’s first pomegranates at the main branch of Lotte Department Store in Seoul on Friday./Yonhap


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Some 47 volumes of the Annals of the Chosun/Choson Dynasty are carried in solemn procession at Woljeongsa Temple on the eastern slopes of Mt. Odae in Gangwon Province on Friday afternoon. The annals were returned to Korea 93 years after they were spirited to Japan at the orders of the first governor-general of Korea during the Japanese colonial period./Yonhap


A ceremony for the return of 47 volumes of the Annals of the Chosun/Choson Dynasty is held at Woljeongsa Temple on the eastern slope of Mt. Odae in Gangwon Province on Friday afternoon. The annals were returned to Korea 93 years after they were spirited to Japan at the orders of the first governor-general of Korea during the Japanese colonial period./Yonhap

Yoo Hong-joon, head of the Cultural Heritage Administration (right), Uri Party lawmaker Lee Kwang-jae (left) and Jeongnyum, the abbot of the Woljeongsa Temple enshrine 47 volumes of the Annals of the Chosun/Choson Dynasty at Woljeongsa Temple, on the eastern slopes of Mt. Odae in Gangwon Province on Friday afternoon. The annals were returned to Korea 93 years after they were spirited to Japan at the orders of the first governor-general of Korea. /Yonhap

U.S. Army Keeping Close Eye on Han River Monster
The Host appears to be doing well at the box office; reaction from Europe earlier this year.