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  Nepalese Universiade athletes in Gwangju

  Members of the Nepalese Universiade delegation are jubilant during a ceremony to mark the team's entry into the Athletes' Village for the 2015 Summer Universiade in the South Korean city of Gwangju on July 3, 2015. The Universiade, a multisport competition for university athletes, will kick off the same day for a 12-day run in Gwangju, some 330 kilometers south of Seoul, and its satellite cities. (Yonhap)

  2015-07-03 16:16:52 KST

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  Paper pandas' flash mob in Seoul

  Noh Byung-yong (L), president of Lotte Co., shakes hands with Jean-Paul Paddack, chief of the World Wide Fund for Nature at Lotte World Tower, a 123-story skyscraper, in Seoul's Songpa Ward on July 2, 2015, as a flash mob of 1,600 papier-mache pandas, made by French sculptor Paulo Grangeon, is held to boost public awareness of wildlife conservation. (Yonhap)

  2015-07-03 09:24:13 KST

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  Potato flowers bloom in S. Korea

  This photo, taken on July 2, 2015, shows potato flowers in full bloom at a field in Daegwallyeong Range, Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do. (Yonhap)

  2015-07-03 09:17:58 KST

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  S. Korean Universiade athletes in Gwangju

  Members of the South Korean Universiade delegation enter a ceremony to mark the team's entry into the Athletes' Village for the 2015 Summer Universiade in the South Korean city of Gwangju on July 2, 2015, one day before the Universiade, a multisport competition for university athletes, kicks off for a 12-day run in Gwangju, some 330 kilometers south of Seoul, and its satellite cities. (Yonhap)

  2015-07-02 18:15:19 KST

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  Preparations for 2015 Gwangju Universiade

  This composite photo taken on July 1, 2015, shows various amunities of the Athletes' Village for the 2015 Summer Universiade -- a beauty parlor, public phone booths, a game room and a table tennis room (from upper L, clockwise) -- in the South Korean city of Gwangju on July 1, 2015. The Universiade, a multisport competition for university athletes, will kick off on July 3 for a 12-day run in Gwangju, some 330 kilometers south of Seoul, and its satellite cities. (Yonhap)

  2015-07-02 09:43:32 KST

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  Prime minister meets with day laborers

  Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn (2nd from L, rear) talks with a group of daily-salaried workers over breakfast at a restaurant near a meeting place for day laborers that opens daily in Seoul's Guro Ward on July 2, 2015, to give them a pep talk and understand their difficulties. (Yonhap)

  2015-07-02 09:41:07 KST

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  10 S. Koreans killed in bus accident in China

  This photo, taken on July 2, 2015, shows the entrance to sickrooms on the 8th floor of Jian Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the northeastern Chinese city of Jian, where injured South Koreans in a bus accident are hospitalized. At least 10 South Koreans, nine of them public servants, were killed and some others were seriously injured after a bus carrying 26 South Koreans veered off a bridge in the city around 3:30 p.m. the previous day. The victims were traveling there on a training program organized by the Local Government Officials Development Institute, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs. (Yonhap)

  2015-07-02 09:37:07 KST

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  Civilian lifeguards at S. Korean seaside beach

  Civilian lifeguards demonstrate how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation at Haeundae Beach, one of the popular seaside beaches, in the port city of Busan on July 1, 2015. A total of 57 civilian rescuers have been appointed as lifeguards to fill up vacancies following a reshuffle in the Coast Guard. (Yonhap)

  2015-07-01 16:25:07 KST

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