A Chinese passenger from his coronavirus-stricken home country shows a quarantine certificate at the arrival gate of Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, after undergoing quarantine proced

A few people walk on a street near Jonggak Station in downtown Seoul on Feb. 3, 2020. The normally busy youth district was nearly empty amid growing fears of the new coronavirus. (Yonhap)

Models show off peanuts and walnuts at Hyundai Department Store in Seoul on Feb. 3, 2020, five days ahead of "Daeboreum," or the first full moon of the year on the lunar calendar.

Taiwanese tourists hold up sheets of paper with springtime blessings written in Chinese characters at the gate of a traditional house at the National Folk Museum in Seoul on Feb.

Asiatic cornelian cherry trees begin to bloom in Hamyang, South Gyeongsang Province, on Feb.

A couple of Dybowski's brown frogs mate in a stream in a valley in Mount Mudeung in Gwangju, 330 kilometers south of Seoul, on Feb.

A chartered Korean Air B747-400 with South Koreans from Wuhan lands at Gimpo International Airport in western Seoul on Feb. 1, 2020.

Travelers wear masks at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, on Feb. 2, 2020, to prevent possible contraction of the new coronavirus. (Yonhap)
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A pupil has her temperature taken by her homeroom teacher at Yangjeong Elementary School in the southeastern port city of Busan on Feb.

Aspiring soldiers wearing masks have their blood taken during a medical checkup at the Seoul office of the Military Manpower Administration on Feb.