People look at festive lights at a structure showing the new year 2022 in Seoul on Dec. 11, 2021.
(END)

A volunteer tosses a coal briquette to his colleague, while clad in Santa Claus costumes, as they take part in a charity event to deliver coal briquettes to impoverished local residents in the sout

Farmer Shin Seo-sung shows off his peeled persimmons, bound and hung to dry, at a farm in Hamyang, a town in South Korea's southeast province of South Gyeongsang, on Dec. 9, 2021.

People wearing the robes of a Korean king and queen along with those dressed as guards take part in the reenactment of taking a stroll at Gyeongbok Palace, the main royal palace during the Joseon D

A large Christmas tree is lit up at the National Assembly in Seoul on Dec. 8, 2021, after a lighting ceremony attended by Speaker Park Byeong-seug and other dignitaries. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)

Graduates of the K-pop Academy, dressed in hanbok, pose during an event for their reunion on the occasion of the academy's 10th anniversary at a London hotel on Dec.

A woman inspects peeled persimmons, bound and hung to dry, at a farm in Haman, a town in South Korea's southeast province of South Gyeongsang, on Dec.

Visitors look at displays during a press preview of a special exhibition titled "Monk Artists during Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910)" at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul on Dec. 6, 2021.

Monks and their followers make kimchi at Jogye Temple in Seoul on Dec. 2, 2021. (Yonhap)
(END)

South Korean boy band A.C.E.