Officials from Dongdaemun Ward in Seoul give blood to help hospitals cope with the sharp drop in reserves caused by people shunning donation centers amid public concerns over the spread of the nove

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A woman walks at a snowy entrance to Mount Halla National Park in the city of Jeju on South Korea's largest island of the same name on Feb. 17, 2020. (Yonhap)
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Two toads move with some 100 others from a valley to a nearby lake in Daegu, some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Feb.

Red apricot flowers start to bloom in the rain on the grounds of the National Debt Compensation Movement Memorial Park in Daegu, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Feb.

This photo provided by the national park service shows a pheasant's eye flower in bloom atop the 1,058-meter-high Cheonwang peak at Mount Songni on Feb. 11, 2020.

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho holds up his Oscar trophy and smiles at a press conference held at the London West Hollywood in Los Angeles on Feb.

This photo, provided by the health ministry on Feb. 10, 2020, shows an application that the ministry released the same day to help people self-diagnose the coronavirus.

An excavation work to find the remains of Koreans who were taken to Japan for forced labor during World War II is under way at a parking lot in Motobu, Okinawa, Japan, on Feb. 10, 2020.

Participants wearing protective masks pray at the Jogye Temple in Seoul on Feb. 8, 2020. (Yonhap)
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