President Moon Jae-jin speaks via videoconference during a meeting at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on Jan. 7, 2021, to offer New Year's greetings. (Yonhap)
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Seen here is the kimchi section of a retail outlet in Seoul on Jan. 6, 2020.

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The New Year's Day sun rises over the eastern coast of Gyeongju, 370 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Jan. 1, 2021. (Yonhap)
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People fly a bull-shaped kite and other kites, wishing for the termination of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Year of the Ox at an event held in Yeouido, Seoul, on Jan. 3, 2021. (Yonhap)

President Moon Jae-in writes a message in the visitors' book at Seoul National Cemetery in southern Seoul on Jan. 2, 2021. (Yonhap)
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An electronic signboard at Hana Bank in Seoul shows the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) rising 52.96 points, or 1.88 percent, to close this year's final trading session at an al

A farmer in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, moves along with a cow and her calf on the early morning of Dec.

People watch the sunset off the coast of Taean, South Chungcheong Province, on Dec. 27, 2020. (Yonhap)
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A medical worker clad in a Santa Claus suit prepares to conduct coronavirus tests at a makeshift clinic in the southwestern city of Gwangju on Dec.