On October 31st, 2025, when the weather was in full autumn, citizens visiting the Taehwagang National Garden Chrysanthemum Garden in Nam-gu, Ulsan, are making memories among the chrysanthemums turning yellow. (Photo by Kim Dong-hwan)

Associated Press photographer Wong Maye-E tries to get her North Korean subjects to open up as much as is possible in an authoritarian country with no tolerance for dissent and great distrust of foreigners. She has taken dozens of portraits of North Koreans over the past three years, often after breaking the ice by taking photos with an instant camera and sharing them. Her question for everyone she photographs: What is your motto? Their answers reflect both their varied lives and the government that looms incessantly over all of them. (Photo by Wong Maye-E/AP Photo)

Madagascan sunset setting over the 98-foot-tall baobab trees of the Avenue of the Baobabs located in Menabe, Madagascar on August 2020. (Photo by Kim Paffen/MediaDrumImages)

Elementary school sumo wrestlers compete in the sumo ring during the Wanpaku sumo-wrestling tournament in Tokyo, Japan on October 29, 2022. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Kayla DiCello of the U.S. in action during the Women's All-Around Final at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, October 21, 2021. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Child models present creations at Dong Wenmei T100 Children's Collection during China Fashion Week in Beijing October 29, 2014. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Visitors look at penguins wearing Santa Claus (in red) and Christmas tree (in green) costumes during a promotional event for Christmas at an amusement park in Yongin, south of Seoul, December 18, 2013. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

A woman toes a tube carrying a man during the Ice and snow carnival at Taoranting park in Beijing, China, January 25, 2016. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)