South Korea's Lee Min-ji lifts a barbell to win gold in the women's 76-kilogram division at the IWF World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Dec.

A choir of children sings during the opening ceremony of the ninth International UNESCO Conference on Geoparks in the city of Seogwipo on South Korea's largest island of Jeju on Dec. 14, 2021.

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Employees inspect bricks of bean paste drying and ripening at the traditional sauce maker Seoil Farm in Anseong, 77 kilometers south of Seoul, on Dec. 14, 2021.

This photo, provided by the National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage, shows part of some 200 Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) relics, including 125 Goryeo celadons, found under the sea of

Workers change straw thatch on the roof of a house at the Korean Folk Village in Yongin, south of Seoul, on Dec. 13, 2021. (Yonhap)
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An exhibit takes place at Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul on Dec. 13, 2021, to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Australia. (Yonhap)
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People look at festive lights at a structure showing the new year 2022 in Seoul on Dec. 11, 2021.
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A volunteer tosses a coal briquette to his colleague, while clad in Santa Claus costumes, as they take part in a charity event to deliver coal briquettes to impoverished local residents in the sout

Farmer Shin Seo-sung shows off his peeled persimmons, bound and hung to dry, at a farm in Hamyang, a town in South Korea's southeast province of South Gyeongsang, on Dec. 9, 2021.