Italy's Alexandra Oberstolz and Katharina Sofie Kofler compete in the women's-doubles luge event at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games in the Alpensia Sliding Centre in Gangwon, South Korea, on January 21, 2024. (Photo by OIS/IOC/Handout via Reuters)

The sunken ferry Sewol sits on a semi-submersible ship during its salvage operations at the sea off Jindo, South Korea, in this handout picture provided by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and released by Yonhap on March 26, 2017. (Photo by Reuters/Yonhap/The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries)

U.S. soldiers wrestle with South Korean soldiers in a muddy ring during a joint ranger training exercise at a ranger camp near the demilitarised zone (DMZ) June 25 2003 in Paju, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

Anglers cast lines through holes into a frozen river during an ice fishing competition at the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival on January 7, 2012 in Hwacheon-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

South Koreans wear Santa Claus outfits and hold gifts to promote Christmas at a charity event on December 23, 2011 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

In this undated photo provided on Monday, November 25, 2019, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, poses as he inspects a women's company under Unit 5492 of the Korean People's Army in North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Photo by Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP Photo)

South Korean divers prepare to plunge through a hole in the ice of the frozen Imjin River on January 16, 2005 in Yeonchun, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)