Volunteers from the Korean Red Cross climb a staircase carrying relief supplies to deliver to vulnerable residents in the southeastern city of Busan on Jan. 14, 2020. (Yonhap)
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Jazz singer Nah Youn-sun (3rd from L, front row) and pop columnist Jeff Benjamin (4th from L, front row), who won CICI Korea Image Awards from the Corea Image Communication Institute, pose for a ph

Yonhap News Agency President and CEO Cho Sung-boo (L) poses for a photo with new Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koji Tomita at Yonhap headquarters in Seoul on Jan. 14, 2020. (Yonhap)

President Moon Jae-in calls on a reporter to ask a question at his new year press conference at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on Jan. 14, 2020. (Yonhap)
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A resident tends to Korean hard taffy, "yeot," made for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday at a village in Imsil, 300 km south of Seoul, on Jan.

Postal workers sort through piles of parcels and packages of gifts at a distribution center in Seoul on Jan. 14, 2020, a common sight ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday that falls on Jan.

This photo, provided by South Korean convenience store chain GS25 on Jan. 14, 2020, shows a customer entering its outlet in downtown Seoul that has no checkout counter and opened the same day.

A fisherman examines a row of "gulbi," dried yellow corvina, that is being dried outdoors in the port city of Yeonggwang, South Jeolla Province, on Jan. 12, 2020. (Yonhap)
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Shoppers crowd a traditional market in the port city of Busan on Jan. 12, 2020, as they prepare for the Lunar New Year's Day holiday scheduled for Jan. 24-27. (Yonhap)
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Lee Dong-jun of South Korea celebrates his goal against Iran during the teams' Group C match at the Asian Football Confederation U-23 Championship at Tinsulanon Stadium in Songkhla, Thailand, on Ja