Yonhap News Agency President and CEO Cho Sung-boo (L) poses for a photo with new Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koji Tomita at Yonhap headquarters in Seoul on Jan. 14, 2020. (Yonhap)

President Moon Jae-in calls on a reporter to ask a question at his new year press conference at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on Jan. 14, 2020. (Yonhap)
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A resident tends to Korean hard taffy, "yeot," made for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday at a village in Imsil, 300 km south of Seoul, on Jan.

Postal workers sort through piles of parcels and packages of gifts at a distribution center in Seoul on Jan. 14, 2020, a common sight ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday that falls on Jan.

This photo, provided by South Korean convenience store chain GS25 on Jan. 14, 2020, shows a customer entering its outlet in downtown Seoul that has no checkout counter and opened the same day.

A fisherman examines a row of "gulbi," dried yellow corvina, that is being dried outdoors in the port city of Yeonggwang, South Jeolla Province, on Jan. 12, 2020. (Yonhap)
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Shoppers crowd a traditional market in the port city of Busan on Jan. 12, 2020, as they prepare for the Lunar New Year's Day holiday scheduled for Jan. 24-27. (Yonhap)
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Lee Dong-jun of South Korea celebrates his goal against Iran during the teams' Group C match at the Asian Football Confederation U-23 Championship at Tinsulanon Stadium in Songkhla, Thailand, on Ja

This photo, provided by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Jan.

Tourists try to catch trout with their bare hands during the annual Hongcheon River Kkong Kkong Festival in Hongcheon, 102 km east of Seoul, on Jan. 10, 2020.