In this Thursday, February 14, 2019, file photo, South Korean seniors clad in traditional attire bow during a joint graduation and coming-of-age ceremony at Dongmyung Girls' High School in Seoul South Korea. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A mourner with a portrait of the deceased Kim Bok-dong, a former South Korean s*x slave, marches toward the Japanese Embassy during her funeral ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, February 1, 2019. Hundreds of mourners gathered Friday near the embassy for the funeral of Kim forced as a girl into a brothel and sexually enslaved by the Japanese military in WWII. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Dancers in traditional costumes perform to celebrate after the opening ceremony of the 2019 trading year at the Korea Exchange in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, January 2, 2019. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





Visitors, dressed in South Korean traditional “Hanbok” attire, smile to take pictures at the Gyeongbok Palace, the main royal palace in the Joseon Dynasty, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 27, 2019. Wearing a “Hanbok”, mostly rented, has become a fashionable trend among the youth commonly seen at palaces and other traditional places. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





In this Monday, December 31, 2018, file photo, a woman hangs paper notes bearing her New Year wishes outside the Jogyesa Buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Visitors view large snow sculptures at the Mount Taebaek Snow Festival in the city of Taebaek, South Korea, 18 January 2018. The festival opened on 18 January and will run until 03 February 2019. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Yonhap)





A TV screen shows the live broadcast of South Korean President Moon Jae-in's press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, January 10, 2019. Moon has suggested he'll push for sanction exemptions to restart dormant economic cooperation projects with North Korea. The signs read “Finance Innovation”. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Participants make kimchi, a staple Korean side dish made of fermented vegetables, for a Guinness World Record for the largest number of people making kimchi at one place during the Seoul Kimchi Festival at Seoul Plaza in Seoul, Sunday, November 4, 2018. More than 3,000 people made kimchi to donate to needy neighbors in preparation for the winter season. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





In this Tuesday, April 16, 2019, file photo, the lanterns decorated for upcoming celebration of Buddha's birthday on May 12 are reflected on the windows as a woman attends a service at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Ahn Young-joo/AP Photo/File)





Workers hang on the ropes to attach silicone to windows on a building in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A couple wearing masks ride a bicycle as the cityscape is covered with a thick haze of fine dust particles in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 5, 2019. South Korean Environment Ministry issued emergency fine dust reduction measures on Tuesday. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Young women wearing traditional hanbok dress line up for a group photo as they attend a traditional Coming-of-Age Day ceremony to mark adulthood at Namsan hanok village in Seoul on May 20, 2019. The ceremony marks the age of 19, at which a person is legally able to make life choices from voting, to drinking alcohol. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)





Twenty-year-old South Koreans wearing traditional costumes participate in the 47th Coming of Age Day ceremony at Namsangol Hanok Village in Seoul, South Korea, 20 May 2019. The Coming of Age Day is the day to celebrate and encourage youth who have reached the age of 20, which is considered the beginning of adulthood in South korean culture. (Photo by Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA/EFE)





Participants whirl cans filled with burning wood chips during a celebration ahead of “Jeongwol Daeboreum” (Great Full Moon), which is a traditional Korean holiday that celebrates the first full moon of the lunar calendar, at a park in Seoul, South Korea, February 17, 2019. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





Tourists look toward the north through binoculars near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, February 27, 2019. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





Hari, a one-and-a-half-year-old Korean Jindo dog wears a dog mask on a poor air quality day in Incheon, South Korea, March 15, 2019. (Photo by Hyun Young Yi/Reuters)





A novice monk naps after getting his head shaved by a Buddhist monk during an event to celebrate the upcoming Vesak Day, birthday of Buddha, at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, April 22, 2019. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





Japanese Yuuka Hasumi, 17, and Ibuki Ito, 17, also from Japan, who want to become K-pop stars, perform at an Acopia School party in Seoul, South Korea, March 16, 2019. Acopia is a prep school offering young Japanese a shot at K-pop stardom, teaching them the dance moves, the songs and also the language. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





South Koreans take selfies as they tour the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, South Korea, May 1, 2019. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





In this May 2, 2019, photo, Shaven-headed children ride a roller coaster during their visit at the Everland amusement park in Yongin, South Korea. Ten children entered a temple to have an experience of monks' life for three weeks. Buddhists visit a temple across the country to celebrate the Buddha's upcoming birthday on May 12. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





Women wearing the Korean traditional costume Hanbok take photographs on an autumn day at Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul, South Korea, November 5, 2018. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





In this Tuesday, April 2, 2019 file photo, Lee Pil-jae, second from right, Vice President at KT Corp., and models introduce various 5G services available on smarpthones during a press conference on 5G service at KT Corp's headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea's telecommunications carriers on Wednesday, April 3, have turned on super-fast 5G mobile internet networks abruptly ahead of schedule in an attempt to ensure the country becomes the first in the world to launch the services. The signs read: “Play with the world with KT 5G”. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo/File)





Tourists take photographs at a creek in the southeastern city of Changwon, South Korea, 31 March 2019, one day ahead of a 10-day cherry blossom festival in the region. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Yonhap)





In this April 9, 2019, photo, Lee Dong Kil's daughter Lee Yoon Seol sits to celebrate her the 100th day of the birth at Lee's house in Daejeon, South Korea. Just two hours after Lee’s daughter was born on New Year’s Eve, the clock struck midnight, 2019 was ushered in, and the infant became 2-years-old. She wasn’t alone, though it happened for her quicker than most: Every baby born in South Korea last year became 2 on Jan. 1. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





In this April 25, 2019, file photo, visitors dressed in South Korean traditional “Hanbok” attire put up umbrellas at the Gyeongbok Palace, the main royal palace during the Joseon Dynasty, and one of South Korea's well-known landmarks in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo/File)





In this May 7, 2019, photo, shaven-headed young boys wear VR devices to experience 5G service at LG UPlus 5G experience place in Seoul, South Korea. Ten children entered a temple to have an experience of monks' life for three weeks to celebrate upcoming Buddha's birthday on May 12. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, May 30, 2019, file photo, South Korean soldiers show their skills of martial arts during a drill as part of the Ulchi Taeguk exercises in Goyang, South Korea. The four-day exercises will include massive civilian evacuation drills and a South Korea-only military drill aimed at preparing for war situations and disasters. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo/File)





South Korean Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Kim Myeongsu, center, sits with other justices upon their arrival at the Supreme Court in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, November 1, 2018. South Korea's top court has ruled that people can legally reject mandatory military service on conscientious or religious grounds and must not be punished. (Photo by Yun Dong-jin/Yonhap via AP Photo)





A woman walks over stepping-stones before the Han river and Seoul's skyline at Yeouido park on September 26, 2018. South Korea is observing the final day of the annual “Chuseok” thanksgiving holiday. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)





In this Thursday, December 13, 2018, file photo, visitors huddle under umbrellas in the snow at the Gyeongbok Palace, the main royal palace during the Joseon Dynasty, and one of South Korea's well known landmarks in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





In this Wednesday, March 27, 2019, file photo, a woman dressed in South Korean traditional “Hanbok” attire poses to take pictures at the Gyeongbok Palace, the main royal palace in the Joseon Dynasty, in Seoul, South Korea. Wearing a “Hanbok”, mostly rented, has become a fashionable trend among the youth commonly seen at palaces and other traditional places. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





This picture taken on May 15, 2019 shows elderly South Korean women (front L-R) Park Young-ae, Nam Yang-soon and Shin Dong-hee posing and their eight-year-old classmates in a classroom at Woldeung Elementary School on the outskirts of Suncheon, 320 kilometres (198 miles) south of Seoul. With South Korea's population ageing rapidly and families migrating from the countryside to the cities for decades, rural primary schools are facing falling pupil numbers. Now some are targeting the opposite end of the age spectrum and recruiting elderly illiterate grandmothers – who were denied education on gender grounds during their own childhoods – to stave off the threat of closure and teach them to stave off the threat of closure and teach them to read and write. (Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/AFP Photo)





A dance troupe performs in memory of the Jeju April 3 incident victims ahead of a ceremony to mark its anniversary at a memorial park in Jeju, South Korea, 03 April 2019. The incident refers to a series of pro-communist uprisings and a counterinsurgency that occurred between 1948 and 1954 on Jeju Island. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Yonhap)