Giant Panda Ai Bao holds her baby panda with mouth after giving birth to twin at Everland amusement park in Yongin, South Korea on July 11, 2023. (Photo by Samsung C&T/Yonhap via Reuters)





Members of the Korean Health and Medical Workers' Union participate in a rally against the government's labor policy in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 13, 2023. Thousand medical workers launched a two-day strike on Thursday to demand better working conditions and increased support for public medical institutions, Yonhap news agency reported. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





People watch their collapsed houses after a landslide caused by heavy rain in Yecheon, South Korea, Sunday, July 16, 2023. Days of heavy rain triggered flash floods and landslides and destroyed homes, leaving scores of people dead and forcing thousands to evacuate, officials said Sunday. (Photo by Yun Kwan-shick/Yonhap via AP Photo)





A bus is brought out of a flooded underground tunnel after flood water submerged 15 vehicles in the central town of Osong, South Korea, 16 July 2023. Seven people are confirmed to have been killed so far in the tunnel. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA)





In this photo provided by South Korea National Fire Agency, rescuers search for survivors along a road submerged by floodwaters leading to an underground tunnel in Cheongju, South Korea, Sunday, July 16, 2023. Days of heavy rain triggered flash floods and landslides and destroyed homes, leaving scores of people dead and forcing thousands to evacuate, officials said Sunday. (Photo by South Korea National Fire Agency via AP Photo)





Rescuers conduct a search operation along a road submerged by floodwaters leading to an underground tunnel in Cheongju, South Korea, Sunday, July 16, 2023. Days of heavy rain triggered flash floods and landslides and destroyed homes, leaving scores of people dead and forcing thousands to evacuate, officials said Sunday. (Photo by Kim Ju-hyung/Yonhap via AP Photo)





South Korean soldiers carry a tube to pump water out of a tunnel along a road leading to an underground tunnel where some 15 cars were trapped in flood waters after heavy rains in Cheongju on July 16, 2023. Rescuers battled to reach people trapped in a flooded tunnel on July 16, in South Korea, where at least 33 people have died and 10 are missing after heavy rains caused flooding and landslides. (Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/AFP Photo)





Rescue workers pump water out of a flooded underground tunnel in the town of Osong, North Chungcheong Province, central South Korea, on 17 July 2023, as they search for missing people who are believed to have been submerged inside the tunnel after a nearby river overflowed due to heavy rain on 15 July. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Protesters wearing masks of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, second from left, U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, second from right, attend a rally against a meeting of Nuclear Consultative Group between South Korea and the United States in front of the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. A bilateral consulting group of South Korean and U.S. officials met Tuesday in Seoul to discuss strengthening their nations' deterrence capabilities against North Korea's evolving nuclear threats. The signs read “Disintegration of Nuclear Consultative Group”. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Victims of the torrential rains sit inside their tent at a temporary shelter at the Culture and Sports Center in Yecheon-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do province, South Korea, 17 July 2023. According to the National Fire Agency (NFA), at least 40 people are dead and nine missing nationwide due to flooding and landslides following heavy rains. The country's central and southern regions are bracing for another spell of torrential rains, the state weather agency said on 17 July. (Photo by Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA/EFE)





South Korean marines search for missing people in floodwaters in Yecheon, South Korea, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Rescuers continued their searches Tuesday for people still missing in landslides and other incidents caused by more than a week of torrential rains. (Photo by Lee Moo-ryul/Newsis via AP Photo)





People watch a television reporting North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into its eastern sea early Wednesday in what appeared to be a statement of defiance as the United States deploys a nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea for the first time in decades. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Visitors watch the North Korean side from the Unification Observation Post in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, July 20, 2023. North Korea wasn't responding Thursday to U.S. attempts to discuss the American soldier who bolted across the heavily armed border and whose prospects for a quick release are unclear at a time of high military tensions and inactive communication channels. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Police officers investigate the scene of a stabbing rampage on a street in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 21, 2023. A knife-wielding man stabbed at least four pedestrians on a street in the South Korean capital, Seoul, on Friday, killing one person, police said. (Photo by Shin Hyun-woo/Yonhap via AP Photo)





A woman walks past the War Memorial in Seoul, South Korea, 26 July 2023, one day ahead of the 70th anniversary of the Korea War cease-fire agreement. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA)





A woman walks past a big screen showing the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 phones during the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event in Seoul on July 26, 2023. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je/AFP Photo)





South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol (3rd L) and his wife Kim Keon-hee (2nd R) attend a ceremony for the Korean War UN veterans day at the UN Memorial Cemetery in Busan on July 27, 2023. (Photo by Kim Min-Hee/Pool via AFP Photo)





A woman walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending a military parade held in Pyongyang to mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, at a railway station in Seoul on July 28, 2023. Kim Jong Un oversaw a North Korean military parade featuring new drones and Pyongyang's nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles, as his defence chief warned the United States that nuclear war was coming, state media reported on July 28. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je/AFP Photo)





A veterinarian takes a sample from a cat at an animal shelter in Yeoju, southeast of Seoul, South Korea, 01 August 2023, after cats were found to have been infected with a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strain at shelters in Seoul on 25 and 29 July, marking the first infections of the virus in mammals since 2016. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA)





A participant drinks water at a water supply zone of the camping site for the 25th World Scout Jamboree in Buan, South Korea on August 4, 2023. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)