Visitors wearing traditional hanbok dress pose for selfie photos in the snow at Gyeongbokgung palace in Seoul on February 17, 2020. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)





A photo taken with a drone shows South Korean people queuing to purchase masks outside a Happy Department store in Seoul, South Korea, 28 February 2020. According to the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), 13 people in South Korea have died from the COVID-19 with the nation's total infections reported to be over 2,000. (Photo by Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA/EFE)





People wait in line to buy face masks from a store at the Dongseongro shopping district in Daegu on February 27, 2020. South Korea reported 334 new coronavirus cases on February 27, taking its total to 1,595, still the largest in the world outside China, where the disease first emerged. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je/AFP Photo)





A woman wearing a mask to prevent the coronavirus is reflected in the mirrors, in Seoul, South Korea, February 24, 2020. (Photo by Heo Ran/Reuters)





Employees from a disinfection service company are reflected in a shop's window as they sanitize a shopping district in Seoul, South Korea, February 27, 2020. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





Tourists wearing masks to prevent the coronavirus take a selfie at a shopping district in Seoul, South Korea, February 24, 2020. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





Electric screens about precautions against the illness COVID-19 are seen in a subway train in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, February 17, 2020. Chinese authorities on Monday reported a slight upturn in new virus cases and 105 more deaths for a total of 1,770 since the outbreak began two months ago. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





People walk under banners about precautions against a new coronavirus at the Yeonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, February 10, 2020. China reported a rise in new virus cases on Monday, possibly denting optimism that its disease control measures like isolating major cities might be working, while Japan reported dozens of new cases aboard a quarantined cruise ship.The signs read: “How to prevent a new coronavirus”. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Workers wearing protective gears spray disinfectant against the new coronavirus in front of a church in Daegu, South Korea, Thursday, February 20, 2020. The mayor of the South Korean city of Daegu urged its 2.5 million people on Thursday to refrain from going outside as cases of the new virus spike. (Photo by Kim Jong-un/Yonhap via AP Photo)





In this February 14, 2020. photo, a man wearing a face mask rides a bicycle to pass the Chinatown's main entrance gate in Incheon, South Korea. Even as cases and deaths from the new virus mount, fear is advancing like a tsunami – and not just in the areas surrounding the Chinese city of Wuhan, the center of the outbreak that has been declared a global health emergency. A restaurant owner in the Chinatown says visitors have dropped by 90%. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Noodle stands inside a traditional market are idle in Daegu, South Korea, Friday, February 21, 2020. South Korea on Friday declared a “special management zone” around a southeastern city where a surging viral outbreak, largely linked to a church in Daegu, threatens to overwhelm the region's health system. (Photo by Kim Hyun-tae/Yonhap via AP Photo)





A worker wearing protective gears disinfect chairs as a precaution against the coronavirus at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, February 21, 2020. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Medical workers wearing protective gears carry a patient suspected of contracting the new coronavirus toward an ambulance at Daenam Hospital in Cheongdo, South Korea, Friday, February 21, 2020. South Korea reported 100 new virus cases Friday, bringing the country's total to 204, many of them clustered around a southeastern city, and raising fears that the outbreak is getting out of control. (Photo by Lee Moo-ryul/Newsis via AP Photo)





Visitors wearing face masks walk near the Gwanghwamun, the main gate of the 14th-century Gyeongbok Palace, and one of South Korea's well-known landmarks, in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, February 22, 2020. South Korea on Saturday reported a six-fold jump in viral infections in four days to 346, most of them linked to a church and a hospital in and around the fourth-largest city where schools were closed and worshipers and others told to avoid mass gatherings. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





Workers wearing protective gears spray disinfectant as a precaution against the COVID-19 at a local market in Daegu, South Korea, Sunday, February 23, 2020. (Photo by Im Hwa-young/Yonhap via AP Photo)





A workers wearing protective gears sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus at a market in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, February 24, 2020. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





People wearing masks after the coronavirus outbreak wait in a line to buy masks in front of a department store in Seoul, South Korea, February 28, 2020. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





South Korean marines place a barricade for traffic control after a sailor of the unit was confirmed to have been infected with the coronavirus in front of a Navy unit on Jeju Island, South Korea, Friday, February 21, 2020. (Photo by Park Ji-ho/Yonhap via AP Photo)





A man dressed in South Korean traditional “Hanbok” attire wears a face mask in the snow as he gestures to take photos at the Gyeongbok Palace, the main royal palace during the Joseon Dynasty in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, February 17, 2020. Chinese authorities on Monday reported a slight upturn in new virus cases and hundred more deaths for a total of thousands since the outbreak began two months ago. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





People in traditional Korean hanbok dresses wear face masks as they visit Gyeongbokgung palace in Seoul on February 23, 2020. South Korea reported two additional deaths from coronavirus and 123 more cases on February 23, with nearly two thirds of the new patients connected to a religious sect. The national toll of 556 cases is now the second-highest outside of China. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je/AFP Photo)