Bereaved family members bow during the funeral of civic activist Paek Ki-wan at Seoul National University Hospital on Feb. 15, 2021.

People board buses at Seoul Express Bus Terminal to travel outside the capital to their hometowns on Feb.

Volunteers from a branch of the National Red Cross carry relief packages on their heads while walking up steps in the port city of Busan, 450 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Feb.

This image, provided by the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a Seoul-based civic organization that promotes the country and its history online for an international audience, shows its post

Gyeongdong Market in Seoul is crowded with people on Feb. 7, 2021, ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday that runs from Feb. 11-13. (Yonhap)
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Icheon Mayor Eum Tai-joon and other participants plant rice seedlings inside a greenhouse in Icheon, 80 km southeast of Seoul, on Feb.

Workers attach sheets of paper with springtime blessings written in Chinese characters on the gate of a house at the Korean Folk Village in Yongin, south of Seoul, on Feb.

A traditional Korean art troupe performs during a folklore festival for springtime blessings in the city of Jeju on South Korea's largest island of the same name on Feb.

A woman lays out "garaetteok," a Korean rice cake stick, just churned out of a rice cake machine at her shop at a traditional market in Seoul on Feb.

First lady Kim Jung-sook expresses thanks to the Korean people as the "thermometer of love" annually set up in Seoul for charity donations hit its target of 100 C, in this photo provided by the pre