On November 3rd, 2025, Japanese exchange student Aika Mitsui (24) stands in front of her work at the graduation exhibition of the photography department at Kyungsung University in Nam-gu, Busan. (Photo by Dong-Hwan Kim)





On the November 24, 2025, children are making human faces by collecting fallen leaves in the forest in front of the Yuseong-gu Office in Daejeon. (Photo by Shin Hyeon-jong)





On the November 24, 2025, children are making human faces by collecting fallen leaves in the forest in front of the Yuseong-gu Office in Daejeon. (Photo by Shin Hyeon-jong)





On the morning of the November 25, 2025, autumn rain, urging winter's arrival, fell in a residential area in Unam-dong, Gwangju. A citizen with an umbrella walks down a street covered in fallen yellow ginkgo leaves. (Photo by Kim Young-geun)





Citizens watch the fourth launch of the Korean Space Launch Vehicle Nuriho from across the Oenaro Launch Complex in Goheung, South Jeolla Province, on the morning of the November 27, 2025. Citizens rejoiced at the news of the successful launch, as if it were their own day. (Photo by Jang Gyeong-sik)





Citizens watch the fourth launch of the Korean Space Launch Vehicle Nuriho from across the Oenaro Launch Complex in Goheung, South Jeolla Province, on the morning of the November 27, 2025. (Photo by Jang Gyeong-sik)





Supporters of South Korea's ousted president Yoon Suk Yeol shout slogans in front of the ruling Democratic Party headquarters during a rally marking the first anniversary of Yoon's declaration of martial law, near the National Assembly in Seoul on December 3, 2025. South Korea's ousted former leader Yoon Suk Yeol issued a call from prison on December 3 urging his supporters to rally for “freedom” and defending his decision to declare martial law a year ago. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je/AFP Photo)





Members from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) participate in a rally to mark the first anniversary of former President Yoon Suk Yeol's brief imposition of martial law, in front of the National Assembly on December 03, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea. A year has passed since then-President Yoon Suk Yeol declared a state of emergency martial law, stunning Korea and setting off a political crisis that continues to reverberate today. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)





On the morning of the December 4, 2025, at Gwanghwamun Station in Seoul, citizens passing by while members of the National Coalition for the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) protested on their way to work. (Photo by Park Seong-won)





Visitors wearing traditional hanbok dresses walk on the snow-covered grounds of Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul on December 5, 2025, after the season's first snowfall. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je/AFP Photo)





Children who visited the K-Pop Demon Hunters pop-up store in Seongdong-gu, Seoul on the December 7, 2025, are taking a commemorative photo in an exhibition hall that recreates a space from an animation. (Photo by Jang Gyeong-sik)





Third-grade students head home with bright expressions after completing the closing ceremony at Doma Elementary School in Seo-gu, Daejeon on the December 11, 2025. (Photo by Shin Hyeon-jong)