A handout photo made available by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) shows South Korea's second homegrown space rocket, called Nuri, raised up to launch in the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province, South Korea, 15 June 2022, South Korea will launch Nuri on 16 June 2022. (Photo by Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)/EPA/EFE)





People watch the Nuri rocket, the first domestically produced space rocket, taking off from the launch pad near the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. South Korea launched its first domestically built space rocket on Tuesday in the country's second attempt, months after its earlier liftoff failed to place a payload into orbit. (Photo by Chun Jung-in/Yonhap via AP Photo)





The Nuri rocket, the first domestically produced space rocket, lifts off from a launch pad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. South Korea successfully launched its first homegrown space rocket on Tuesday, officials said, a triumph that boosted the country's growing space ambitions but also proved it has key technologies to build a space-based surveillance system and bigger missiles amid animosities with rival North Korea. (Photo by Korea Pool/Yonhap via AP Photo)





Women wearing traditional Hanbok dresses use umbrellas to shelter from a heavy downpour outside the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul on June 23, 2022. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)





People wearing face masks cross a road in the rain near a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A protester holds a sign as he kneels down in front of parade trucks before a parade as a part of the 23rd Seoul Queer Culture Festival which is held from from July 15 to July 31, in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, July 16, 2022. Thousands of gay rights supporters marched under a heavy police guard in the South Korean capital on Saturday as they celebrated the city's first Pride parade in three years after a COVID-19 hiatus. The flag on the truck reads “The 23rd Seoul Queer Parade”. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





Yoo Choi-ahn, vice chief of the subcontractor union, stuck inside a steel cage-like structure that he welded himself on the floor of the occupied oil tanker holds a sign during a strike at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Geoje, South Korea, July 19, 2022. The sign reads “We can't live like this”. (Photo by Yonhap via Reuters)





A South Korean worker sprays water to wash the bronze statue of Admiral Yi Sun-shin, who won a major naval victory over Japan in the 16th century, during a clean-up event at Gwanghwamun square in Seoul on July 21, 2022. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je/AFP Photo)





South Korean army soldiers prepare for an exercise at a training field in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned he's ready to use his nuclear weapons in potential military conflicts with the United States and South Korea, state media said, as he unleashed fiery rhetoric against rivals he says are pushing the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Visitors watch the North Korea side from the Unification Observation Post in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Saturday, July 30, 2022. North Korea on Saturday reported no new fever cases for the first time since it abruptly admitted to its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak and placed its 26 million people under more draconian restrictions in May. But some experts say North Korea has likely manipulated the scale of illness and deaths to help leader Kim Jong Un maintain absolute control. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Children, posing for a photo, are seen silhouetted against the sky and the iconic N Seoul Tower at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, August 1, 2022. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Bulbs of garlic are displayed at a shop in a traditional market in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, August 3, 2022. A rural South Korean town is hot water over its video ad on garlic that some farmers say is obscene and has even sexually objectified the agricultural product. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A man rests underneath a bridge at a Han river park in Seoul, South Korea on August 3, 2022. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





Protesters, two of which are wearing masks of U.S. President Joe Biden, left, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, stage a rally to oppose planned joint military exercises, called the Ulchi Freedom Shield, between South Korea and the United States on the occasion of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit in South Korea, in front of the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, August 4, 2022. The banner reads, “Stop the Ulchi Freedom Shield”. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A TV screen shows a news program reporting about U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was visiting the Joint Security Area of the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, August 5, 2022. North Korea on Saturday, August 6, called U.S. House Speaker Pelosi “the worst destroyer of international peace and stability,” accusing her of inciting anti-North Korea sentiment and enraging China during her Asian tour earlier this week.(Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A vehicle is submerged in a flooded road in Seoul, Monday, August 8, 2022. Heavy rains drenched South Korea's capital region, turning the streets of Seoul's affluent Gangnam district into a river, leaving submerged vehicles and overwhelming public transport systems. (Photo by Hwang Kwang-mo/Yonhap via AP Photo)





A vehicle is damaged on the sidewalk after floating in heavy rainfall in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, August 9, 2022. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





People struggle to hold onto their umbrellas in a crosswalk in the rain in Seoul, South Korea, 08 August 2022, as the rainy seas​on revisits the country. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA/EFE)





A bridge is submerged by torrential rain of the previous day at Han river in Seoul, South Korea on August 9, 2022. (Photo by Yonhap via Reuters)





A car damaged by flood water is seen on the street after heavy rainfall at Gangnam district in Seoul on August 9, 2022. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je/AFP Photo)