People whirl cans filled with burning wood chips during a celebration ahead of “Jeongwol Daeboreum” (Great Full Moon), the first full moon in the Korean lunar calendar in Seoul, South Korea, on February 24, 2024. (Photo by Kim Soo-Hyeon/Reuters)





Graduates make heart gestures during their commencement ceremony at Ilsung Women's Middle and High School in Seoul, South Korea, 27 February 2024. The school with a two-year course is open to nontraditional students aged 40 and older who have not received regular education. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA)





South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (C, 3rd row) poses for a photo with Reserved Officer Training Corps cadets during their commissioning ceremony at the Army Cadet Military School in Goesan, South Korea, 28 February 2024. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA/EFE)





Giant panda Fu Bao eats bamboo at Everland amusement park on March 03, 2024 in Yongin, South Korea. Fu Bao, a female giant panda born in Everland amusement park and turning four years old this year, will be transferred to the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan Province in early April under an international agreement. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Pool via Reuters)





Giant panda Fu Bao rests at Everland amusement park on March 03, 2024 in Yongin, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Pool via Reuters)





Giant panda Fu Bao eats bamboo at Everland amusement park on March 03, 2024 in Yongin, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Pool via Reuters)





Doctors chant slogans during a rally to protest against government plans to increase medical school admissions in Seoul, South Korea, March 3, 2024. The banners read “Oppose increasing medical school admissions without talks with the medical community” (in blue) and “Medical education will be harmed in increasing medical school admissions” (in red). (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





Doctors hold up placards reading “Opposition to the increase in medical schools” during a rally against the government's plan to raise the annual enrolment quota at medical schools, in Seoul on March 3, 2024. (Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/AFP Photo)





Members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions march during a rally marking International Women's Day in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 8, 2024. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A medical worker walks past a mural outside a hospital in Seoul on March 11, 2024. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)





Children participate in a mock vote at a kindergarten in Incheon, South Korea, 12 March 2024. The event was arranged by the local election management commission ahead of the 10 April parliamentary elections. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA)





A South Korean K1A2 tank fires during a joint live fire exercise at a military training field in Pocheon on March 14, 2024 as part of the annual Freedom Shield joint military exercise between South Korea and the United States. (Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/Pool via Reuters)





A supporter, left, wears a Los Angeles Dodgers jersey as pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto walks by during the baseball team's arrival at Incheon International Airport, Friday, March 15, 2024, in Incheon, South Korea, ahead of the team's baseball series against the San Diego Padres. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 18, 2024. North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Monday morning, its neighbors said, days after the end of the South Korean-U.S. military drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A South Korean K1E1 tank participates as South Korean and US soldiers conduct a joint river-crossing exercise in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi province, South Korea, 20 March 2024. (Photo by Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA)





A worker attaches a name tag of a Buddhist who made donation for the lantern display installed for upcoming celebrations of Buddha's birthday on May 15 for the year 2024, at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Christian devotees participate in a 2024 Korea Easter Parade on March 30, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. Christians around the globe are staging processions, festivals and rituals to commemorate Easter. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)





People pose for photos in front of an old Korail train on the disused Gyeonghwa Station railway track during the Jinhae Cherry Blossom Festival in Changwon on March 31, 2024, around 311 kilometres southeast of Seoul. The annual festival has been running since 1952. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)





A vehicle transports Fu Bao, the first giant panda born in South Korea, away from the Everland amusement park, in Yongin, South Korea, April 3, 2024. A crowd of people, some weeping, gathered at the rain-soaked amusement park in South Korea to bid farewell to their beloved giant panda as she departed for China. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





A vehicle carrying Fu Bao, the first giant panda born in South Korea, arrives for a farewell ceremony before Fu Bao is transferred to the airport for China at the Everland amusement park in Yongin, South Korea, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)