Visitors wearing traditional hanbok dresses are seen on the grounds of Gyeongbokgung Palace amid heavy snowfall in central Seoul on November 27, 2024. South Korea's capital was blanketed on November 27 by the heaviest November snowfall since records began over a century ago, the weather agency said. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)

The night view of the National Assembly Building and Yeouido in Yeongdeungpo District, Seoul taken on the December 27, 2024. The lights shine in a cross shape thanks to the cross filter used. (Photo by Koh Woon-ho)

Members of South Korean girl group Gfriend rehearse in Seoul December 23, 2014. Thousands of Korean children dream of becoming household names like rapper Psy, whose 2012 “Gangnam Style” video was a global YouTube hit, often putting up with punishing schedules in the hope of one day making it big in the music industry. A recent survey of pre-teens showed that 21 percent of respondents wanted to be K-pop (Korean pop) stars when they grow up, the most popular career choice. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

Ray Yang, a celebrity trainer, takes a selfie before the start of a workout session during TV program "The Body Show" at a gym in Seoul, September 19, 2015. Looks no longer centre only on the face in beauty-obsessed South Korea, where more women are hitting the gym to improve muscle tone and physical health. As the ideal of beauty evolves in a country that is a trendsetter in cosmetics and the pursuit of plastic surgery, women's fitness has become a growth business, say purveyors of health products, from diet supplements to dumb-bells. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

English singer Dua Lipa has given fans a glimpse inside her pre-Christmas Cotswolds holiday on December 18, 2021, as she striped down to a bikini for a night time hot tub dip. The Grammy winning star looked every inch the pop diva in her racy outfit as she enjoyed quality time with her girlfriends after splitting from boyfriend Anwar Hadid after “two years together”. (Photo by Instagram)

Using digital editing, designer Anton Repponen places Manhattan buildings in desolate landscapes, “inviting viewers to see them as if for the first time”. Here: 8 Spruce Street/New York By Gehry. Photo by Anton Repponen/The Guardian)

On the November 24, 2025, children are making human faces by collecting fallen leaves in the forest in front of the Yuseong-gu Office in Daejeon. (Photo by Shin Hyeon-jong)

A green frog sits on a moth orchid at a local agricultural research center in Hwaseong, about 40 kilometers south of Seoul, South Korea, 03 March 2022, two days ahead of “gyeongchip”. On the lunar calendar, gyeongchip is the day when frogs awake from hibernation. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA/EFE)