var items = new Array (new ImageMetaData('South Korea\'s budget airline Jeju Air\'s 74-seat Q400 lies down near the runway at Gimhae International Airport in Gimhae, south of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2007. A South Korean plane skidded off the runway after landing at the southern city of Busan, injuring six people, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Cho Jung-ho)  ** KOREA OUT **','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photos/070912/070912_bombadier_hmed_130a.jpg','4:35 a.m. ET, 9/12/07','Cho Jung-ho / AP','AP',20735484),new ImageMetaData('SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 10:  South Koreans read newspapers detailing the at-sea incident whereby a North Korean naval boat was allegedly shot at by a South Korean naval vessel off the West Coast of South Korea on Tuesday, seen on November 10, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. The North Korean boat reportedly crossed the Northern Limit Line and failed to retreat after warning shots from the South Korean Navy were fired. The North Korean vessel then opened fire on the South Korean boat, and a fire fight ensued, reportedly resulting in the North Korean craft returning back across the border in flames after the South Korean craft returned their fire.  ','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/getty/gyi0058877245.jpg','6:06 a.m. ET, 11/10/09','Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images','Getty',33821004),new ImageMetaData('POHANG, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 04:  U.S. Marine soldiers participate in the U.S. and South Korean Marines Joint Landing Exercise at Pohang seashore on November 4, 2009 in Pohang, South Korea. South Korean marines conducted a joint landing operation with U.S. marines to prepare for possible aggression by North Korea, which the South remains technically at war with since the end of the Korean War in 1953.  ','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/getty/gyi0058815879.jpg','10:08 p.m. ET, 11/3/09','Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images','Getty',33612742),new ImageMetaData('A North Korean soldier looks at South Korean side during  the repatriation ceremony for a North Korean army sergeant as the United Nation honor guards stand at the border village of the Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. The North Korean officer was plucked from a small boat that drifted last Sunday into South Korean waters off the west coast. ','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/ap/de558b23-cd20-4615-a169-c194c6fe8453.jpg','12:05 a.m. ET, 12/2/09','Ahn Young-joon / AP','AP',34233297),new ImageMetaData('SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01:  (L to R) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. 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','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/ap/7f53e53e-95cd-42a7-8bb8-16840c55edb2.jpg','4:30 a.m. ET, 11/24/09','Ahn Young-joon / AP','AP',34123214),new ImageMetaData('South Korean workers clean windows of an office building in preparation for winter in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009.  According to the Korea Meteorological Administration, the cold front that swept through the nation last week has ended, with high temperatures reaching over 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) in the past two days. ','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/ap/5ce5ccc7-fae3-479f-a5aa-feed476264a1.jpg','3:06 a.m. ET, 11/26/09','Ahn Young-joon / AP','AP',34161001),new ImageMetaData('South Korean protester walks by a portrait of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il,  demanding the liberation of North Korean concentration camps and the indictment of Kim in the International Criminal Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. 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