Camellia flowers are in bloom against the backdrop of snowcapped Mount Halla at a park on the southern resort island of Jeju on Jan. 21, 2020. (Yonhap)
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Participants gather at the annual Inje Icefish Festival in Inje, 165 kilometers northeast of Seoul, on Jan. 19, 2020. The festival, which opened the previous day, will continue until Feb. 2.

Visitors shop for fruits at a wholesale market in the southern port city of Busan on Jan. 19, 2020, ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday that runs from Jan. 24-27. (Yonhap)
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A professional diver in the traditional Korean clothing "hanbok" bows inside a tank at Hanwha Aquaplanet in Seoul on Jan. 20, 2020, ahead of the Jan. 24-27 Lunar New Year holiday. (Yonhap)

Women make Korean sweets known as "hangwa" at a village in Imsil, 300 km south of Seoul, on Jan. 20, 2020, ahead of "Seol," the Lunar New Year holiday from Jan.

Staff members of the Bank of Korea's office in southern Seoul move stacks of cash on Jan. 20, 2020, to be delivered to banks to meet rising demand for cash for the Jan.

A quarantine officer at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, uses an electronic thermometer to check the temperature of passengers arriving by plane from Wuhan, China, and Southeast Asia o

People move sacks of rice into a community service center in northern Seoul on Jan.

Volunteers from the Korean Red Cross climb a staircase carrying relief supplies to deliver to vulnerable residents in the southeastern city of Busan on Jan. 14, 2020. (Yonhap)
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Jazz singer Nah Youn-sun (3rd from L, front row) and pop columnist Jeff Benjamin (4th from L, front row), who won CICI Korea Image Awards from the Corea Image Communication Institute, pose for a ph