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![A Korean activist, center, enters the Seoul Central District Court on Tuesday to attend a court hearing over his potential arrest. [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11731055.jpg?imageId=11731055&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Opposition People Power Party lawmakers shuffle out of the National Assembly's plenary chamber in protest over the ruling Democratic Party's ending of its filibuster over a controversial anti-leaflet bill. The DP passed the bill with its overwhelming majority Monday evening. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11513006.jpg?imageId=11513006&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Police retrieve a balloon attached to a sign lampooning the North's ruling Kim family that anti-Pyongyang activists floated toward North Korea on Monday evening, in defiance of the South Korean government's attempts to stop them. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10959034.jpg?imageId=10959034&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Activists hold pickets that say ’‘2020 World Environment Month,’ ‘Save Jeju Island’ and ‘National Joint Action Against Constructing A Second Airport on Jeju Island’“ at a press conference held in front of the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday. Civic groups and environmental activists are urging the government to completely scrap a plan to build a second international airport on Jeju Island due to concerns about the environmental impact. The conflict dates back to when the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport first announced the plan to build the airport in 2015. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11662392.jpg?imageId=11662392&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)