Sjinkie Knegt of Netherlands, left, and Park Se-Yeong of South Korea crash out as they compete in a men's 1500m short track speedskating final at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Monday, February 10, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (Photo by Bernat Armangue/AP Photo)

The sunken ferry Sewol sits on a semi-submersible ship during its salvage operations at the sea off Jindo, South Korea, in this handout picture provided by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and released by Yonhap on March 26, 2017. (Photo by Reuters/Yonhap/The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries)

A man pours mud water on the head of his girl friend during the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea, Friday, July 18, 2014. The annual mud festival features mud wrestling and mud sliding. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)

Japan's Satoko Yamada prepares to compete during the Shooting 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team bronze medal match against South Korea for the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Saturday, September 30, 2023. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)

Italy's Alexandra Oberstolz and Katharina Sofie Kofler compete in the women's-doubles luge event at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games in the Alpensia Sliding Centre in Gangwon, South Korea, on January 21, 2024. (Photo by OIS/IOC/Handout via Reuters)

Revellers at the Chin Chin music festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands on July 3, 2021. The festival season has started with a QR code, one can enter, corona proof or vaccination proof in the corona check app. (Photo by Robin Utrecht/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

American Song Contest winner, American singer, dancer and actress based in South Korea AleXa arrives to the 2022 Billboard Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 15, 2022. (Photo by Steve Marcus/Reuters)

South Korea's Shim Sukhee falls in the women's 1,500m short track speed skating heat event during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung on February 17, 2018. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP Photo)