Scarecrows are setup in a rice field in Suncheon, 415 kilometers south of Seoul, on Oct. 6, 2021, as the harvest season nears. (Yonhap)
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A visitor looks at a media artwork displayed on a canvas during the 2021 Gwangju Media Art Festival at a plaza in front of the Asia Culture Center in the southwestern city of Gwangju on Oct.

President Moon Jae-in delivers a congratulatory speech during a ceremony to mark Overseas Koreans Day at a Seoul hotel on Oct. 5, 2021. (Yonhap)
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This file photo, provided by the unification ministry, shows a South Korean liaison officer talking to his North Korean counterpart at the Seoul bureau of their joint liaison office on Oct.

This photo, provided by the state-run Korea International Cooperation Agency, shows a ceremony on Oct.

President Moon Jae-in and his wife, Kim Jung-sook, offer flowers in front of a monument for the victims of a marine helicopter crash at the Marine Corps' First Division in Pohang, 374 kilometers so

A ceremony to start a pilgrimage takes place at Songgwangsa Temple in Suncheon, 415 kilometers south of Seoul, on Oct. 1, 2021, in a wish for public peace and security amid the pandemic.

An official demonstrates a walking assistance robot for those with partial paraplegia at an international medical industry fair in Seoul on Sept. 30, 2021. (Yonhap)
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This undated photo, released by the state-run Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency on Sept.

A work of the late Korean American video artist Paik Nam-june is displayed at an inter-Korean liaison office in Paju, 30 kilometers north of Seoul, inside the Demilitarized Zone bisecting the two K