The surviving family members of Korean independence fighter Choi Jae-hyung attend the joint reburial of Choi and his wife Elena Petrovna Choi at Seoul National Cemetery in Dongjak District, western Seoul, on Monday.
Children from a daycare center in Gwangju run around with paper pinwheels with the Korean national flag on Monday. Korea celebrates the 78th anniversary of its liberation from Japanese colonial rule on Tuesday.
A Japanese warship flying the rising sun flag docks at Busan Port on Monday to join a multilateral maritime exercise hosted by Korea. The rising sun continues to remain controversial as it was a symbol of Japanese militarism.
The government stressed that the solution it decided on is focused more on improving the relationship between the two countries, which has been strained for more than a decade.
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