A pupil has her temperature taken by her homeroom teacher at Yangjeong Elementary School in the southeastern port city of Busan on Feb.

Aspiring soldiers wearing masks have their blood taken during a medical checkup at the Seoul office of the Military Manpower Administration on Feb.

The South Korean basketball squad for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics trains at a gym in Icheon, 80 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Jan. 30, 2020. (Yonhap)
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A pupil learns how to clean her hands with hand sanitizer to prevent infection with the deadly new coronavirus at an elementary school in Seoul on Jan.

A subway worker disinfects a train at a depot in Incheon, west of Seoul, on Jan. 29, 2020, amid growing fears over the fast-spreading new coronavirus. (Yonhap)
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A sanitation instructor teaches children how to wash their hands at a day care center in Seoul on Jan.

Workers sterilize subway facilities at a subway station in Seoul on Jan. 28, 2020, amid worldwide fears over the pneumonia-like respiratory virus. (Yonhap)
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Trekkers climb a mountain amid heavy snow in PyeongChang, 180 kilometers east of Seoul, on Jan. 28, 2020, as a heavy snow alert was posted for the country's eastern mountainous region.

A traditional Korean percussion band performs in front of City Hall in Daegu, about 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Jan.

South Koreans with loved ones in North Korea bow during a memorial service in Imjingak on the banks of the Imjin River in Paju close to the inter-Korean border on the occasion of Lunar New Year's D