The ridge of Mount Seorak is seen from the city of Sokcho, South Korea 21 March 2022, as the highest peak of the 1,708-meter mountain is covered with snow. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA/EFE)





A worker checks the electric wires to hang lanterns for upcoming celebration of Buddha's birthday on May 8 at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, third from right, speaks as she leaves the Samsung Medical Center for a home in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 24, 2022. Three months after receiving a pardon over one of South Korea’s worst government-corruption scandals, former President Park was finally going home on Thursday, following her release from a hospital in capital Seoul. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





Bodyguards surround former South Korean President Park Geun-hye as an unidentified man throws a glass bottle (not pictured) at her in front of her home in Daegu, South Korea, March 24, 2022. (Photo by Yonhap via Reuters)





In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, South Korea's solid-fuel rocket is launched at an undisclosed location in South Korea, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. South Korea said it made its first successful launch of a solid-fuel rocket Wednesday in what it called a major development toward acquiring a space surveillance capability amid rising animosities with rival North Korea. (Photo by South Korea Defense Ministry via AP Photo)





People wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus exercise at a park in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 1, 2022. South Korea will ease some of its pandemic restrictions starting next week as officials express cautious hope the worst of its omicron outbreak has passed. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





South Korean buddhists parade holding lamps during the lamp lighting ceremony in front of the Seoul city hall in Seoul, South Korea, 05 April 2022. South Korean Buddhists prepare to celebrate Buddha's upcoming birthday on 08 May 2022. (Photo by Jeon Heon-Kyun/EPA/EFE)





People take a walk among cherry blossoms at a park in Seoul, South Korea on April 6, 2022. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)





People wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus walk under cherry blossoms in full bloom at a park in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A woman uses her mobile phone to take a picture of photographs against the backdrop of cherry blossoms in Seoul on April 6, 2022. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)





A man uses an electric scooter as he rides past a “Greeting Man” statue by South Korean artist Yoo Young-ho in Seoul on April 8, 2022. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)





A couple wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus walks under cherry blossoms in full bloom at a park in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 11, 2022. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





South Korean Buddhist monks, buddhists and members of civic groups bow which they prostrate themselves, on the road in a march as they move toward to Russian Embassy to wish for peace and stop the war in Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022, in downtown Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





Women wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus take pictures under cherry blossoms in full bloom at a park in Goyang, South Korea, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus takes pictures of tulips at a park in Goyang, South Korea, Thursday, April 14, 2022. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





People wearing face masks pass by a poster reminding precautions against the coronavirus at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 15, 2022. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





South Korean environmental activists wear outfits made of plastic waste during a campaign marking Earth Day against climate change at a park along the Han River in Seoul on April 22, 2022. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je/AFP Photo)





A worker wearing a face mask as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus stands on a ladder to arrange wiring near lanterns for the upcoming celebration of Buddha's birthday on May 8 at the Cheonggye Stream in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 25, 2022. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





People walk under a bridge while colorful lotus lanterns are lit along the Cheonggye Stream in central Seoul, South Korea, 26 April 2022. They were installed ahead of Buddha's Birthday, which falls on 08 May this year. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA/EFE)





A visitor wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus take a photograph near lanterns displayed to celebrate for the upcoming birthday of Buddha on May 8, at the public stream in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)