Representatives of the Korea Federation of Banks pose at a flower market, in Goyang City, in this photo provided by the organization, on March 12, 2020.

A negative pressure isolation pod for moving COVID-19 patients is on standby at a hospital in Mungyeong, 180 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on March 12, 2020. (Yonhap)
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This photo, provided by the Baekdu Mount Range Arboretum in South Korea's eastern mountain town of Jeongseon on March 12, 2020, shows Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsberg

A facial mask is affixed on a Statue of Peace, which symbolizes Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, in the southeastern city of Daegu, the epicenter of coronavirus in South Korea, on

A man wears a mask of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's face in Seoul on March 11, 2020, as members of a civic group host a rally to voice their objection to nuclear power.

A frog swims around eggs it spawned in a stream on Mount Samak in the city of Chuncheon, northeast of Seoul, on March 9, 2020. (Yonhap)
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Pink and white blossoms have come out on fruit trees in central Iran in final days of winter as the spring season is approaching, Khour and Biabanak County, Isfahan Province, central Iran, March 9,

Red Cross workers arrange relief goods to be conveyed to some 4,000 households vulnerable to the new coronavirus, in Seoul and Daegu, at their office in Seoul on March 6, 2020.

Lotus lanterns hang at Jogye Temple in central Seoul on March 6, 2020, ahead of Buddha's Birthday, which falls on April 30. (Yonhap)
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This photo, released by the defense ministry on March 9, 2020, shows articles of South Korean soldier Seo Young-seok that South Korean soldiers have discovered at Arrowhead Ridge, a site of fierce