Two women dressed in traditional hanbok laugh as they pose for photos at Gyeongbok Palace, the main royal palace during the Joseon Dynasty, in Seoul, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Photo by Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)





On July 28, 2024 foreign tourists at Haeundae Beach in Busan were taking a break from the heat while enjoying the waves. (Photo by Kim Dong-hwan)





On July 31, 2024, when a heat wave warning was issued, most stores on Myeongdong Street in Jung-gu, Seoul were operating with their doors wide open and their air conditioners on. (Photo by Park Seong-won)





A DJ is dancing on the festival stage on August 1, 2024, held at Gyeongpodae Beach in Gangneung on the 1st, the hottest night since the Korea Meteorological Administration began observing, with temperatures reaching 31.4 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Jo In-won)





On August 1, 2024, many people are cooling off by watching a performance held on the beach in front of Gyeongpodae Beach in Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do, where the super-tropical night phenomenon of temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius continued. (Photo by Jo In-won)





On August 7, 2024, the beginning of autumn, red peppers harvested at a farm in Yeonsan-myeon, Nonsan-si, Chungcheongnam-do are being dried in the sun. (Photo by Shin Hyeon-jong)





On the morning of August 8, 2024, Korea's first bedbug detection dog, Seco, is sniffing around at the arrival hall of Incheon International Airport Terminal 2. Incheon International Airport, together with environmental sanitation company Sesco, will deploy trained detection dogs to the airport until the 9th of next month to prevent the inflow of bedbugs from overseas. (Photo by Jang Yeon-seong)





The continuing heat wave has children excited. On the afternoon August 9, 2024, the Gwangju Citizens' Forest Water Park in Oryong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju is filled with the laughter of children. (Photo by Kim Young-geun)





A green tide increasingly blooms in the Yeongsan River in Naju, 281 kilometers south of Seoul, South Korea, 13 August 2024, amid scorching heat. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA)





Twin baby pandas Rui Bao and Hui Bao play with cold noodles and boots, both made of ice, at the Everland theme park in Yongin, 42 kilometers south of Seoul, South Korea, 14 August 2024. The twin pandas were born on 07 July 2023, marking the first time twin pandas were born in South Korea (Photo by Yonhap/EPA)





A U.S. Army's M1A2 Abrams tank from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team fires during a live firing drill at Rodriguez Live Fire Complex in Pocheon, South Korea, Wednesday, August 14, 2024. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A Supermoon rises next to the 123-story Lotte World Tower in Seoul, South Korea on August 19, 2024. (Photo by Kim Soo-hyeon/Reuters)





Dogs swim in a makeshift swimming pool in Seoul, South Korea, August 18, 2024. An event for dogs and dog owners to cool off amid the heat wave is held at a swimming pool in Seoul. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Ships take shelter at a port in Busan, South Korea, 28 August 2024, as Typhoon Shanshan moves northwest toward Japan. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA)





Firefighters prepare to remove a car from a sinkhole that emerged in the middle of a road in Seoul, South Korea, 29 August 2024. According to fire authorities, two people were injured after a car plunged into the sinkhole. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA/EFE)





Medias film as South Korean Marines take positions after landing on the beach during the combined military amphibious landing exercise between South Korea and the U.S., called Ssangyong exercise, in Pohang, South Korea, Monday, September 2, 2024. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A passenger walks past airport staff members (C) standing in a doorway of the Overseas Infectious Disease Reporting Centre at the Incheon International Airport Terminal 2 on September 3, 2024, on the sidelines of a training drill to check the quarantine response system in the event of suspected patients and to facilitate cooperation systems among related organisations in preparation for the influx of new infectious diseases. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)





Visitors outside the venue for Seoul fashion week in Seoul, South Korea on September 3, 2024. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





Shithi Tabassum, right, and Naher Tanzila, left, from Bangladesh, dressed in South Korean traditional “Hanbok” attire, pose for their souvenir photos at the Gyeongbok Palace, one of South Korea's well-known landmarks, during the Chuseok holidays, the Korean version of Thanksgiving Day, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, September 17, 2024. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





South Korean tightrope walker Seo Joo Hyang performs “Jultagi”, or Tightrope Walking, to celebrate the Chuseok, the Korean version of Thanksgiving Day, at the Namsan Hanok village in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, September 17, 2024. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)