Red apricot flowers start to bloom in the rain on the grounds of the National Debt Compensation Movement Memorial Park in Daegu, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Feb.

This photo provided by the national park service shows a pheasant's eye flower in bloom atop the 1,058-meter-high Cheonwang peak at Mount Songni on Feb. 11, 2020.

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho holds up his Oscar trophy and smiles at a press conference held at the London West Hollywood in Los Angeles on Feb.

This photo, provided by the health ministry on Feb. 10, 2020, shows an application that the ministry released the same day to help people self-diagnose the coronavirus.

An excavation work to find the remains of Koreans who were taken to Japan for forced labor during World War II is under way at a parking lot in Motobu, Okinawa, Japan, on Feb. 10, 2020.

Participants wearing protective masks pray at the Jogye Temple in Seoul on Feb. 8, 2020. (Yonhap)
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Visitors to the 2020 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival enjoy fishing on a frozen river in the Gangwon Province county of Hwacheon, about 120 kilometers northeast of Seoul, on Feb. 8, 2020.

You Young of South Korea holds up her silver medal won in the ladies' singles competition at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships at Mokdong Ice Rink in Seoul on Feb. 8, 2020.

A scaled-back event to burn a pile of pine tree branches is held in the southeastern port city of Busan on Feb.

Climbers scale the frozen wall of the Maebawi artificial waterfall in Inje, Gangwon Province, about 165 kilometers east of Seoul, on Feb. 9, 2020. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
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