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

Jeong Eun-kyeong, head of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, gives a briefing on her agency's comprehensive plan to vaccinate the whole nation at the agency in Cheongju, North Chungch

This photo, provided by the Bank of Korea on Jan.

South Korean Ambassador to France Yoo Dae-jong (2nd from L), the President of the National Association of Veterans of the UN French Forces Patrick Beaudouin (2nd from R) and other participants pose

Workers make traditional Korean sweets, called hangwa," at a factory in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, on Jan. 27, 2021, ahead of Seol, one of the country's two biggest traditional holidays.