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Employees inspect bricks of bean paste drying and ripening at the traditional sauce maker Seoil Farm in Anseong, 77 kilometers south of Seoul, on Dec. 14, 2021.

This photo, provided by the National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage, shows part of some 200 Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) relics, including 125 Goryeo celadons, found under the sea of

Workers change straw thatch on the roof of a house at the Korean Folk Village in Yongin, south of Seoul, on Dec. 13, 2021. (Yonhap)
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An exhibit takes place at Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul on Dec. 13, 2021, to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Australia. (Yonhap)
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People look at festive lights at a structure showing the new year 2022 in Seoul on Dec. 11, 2021.
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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)