An excavation work to find the remains of Koreans who were taken to Japan for forced labor during World War II is under way at a parking lot in Motobu, Okinawa, Japan, on Feb. 10, 2020.

Participants wearing protective masks pray at the Jogye Temple in Seoul on Feb. 8, 2020. (Yonhap)
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Visitors to the 2020 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival enjoy fishing on a frozen river in the Gangwon Province county of Hwacheon, about 120 kilometers northeast of Seoul, on Feb. 8, 2020.

You Young of South Korea holds up her silver medal won in the ladies' singles competition at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships at Mokdong Ice Rink in Seoul on Feb. 8, 2020.

A scaled-back event to burn a pile of pine tree branches is held in the southeastern port city of Busan on Feb.

Climbers scale the frozen wall of the Maebawi artificial waterfall in Inje, Gangwon Province, about 165 kilometers east of Seoul, on Feb. 9, 2020. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
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This photo shows the first comfort woman statue, symbolizing the victims of wartime sexual slavery by Japan's imperial army during World War II, erected in front of a Korean community hall in Conne

This composite photo shows efforts from various sectors to cope with the coronavirus crisis.

Baku, February 6, AZERTAC

The Extraordinary Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States has started in Baku.

Baku, February 6, AZERTAC

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has presented "Sharaf" Order to