Red Cross officials welcome 63 ethnic Koreans who resided on Russia's Far East island of Sakhalin upon their arrival at the port of Donghae, 280 kilometers east of Seoul, on March 17, 2023, for per

Citizens look around an excavation site for the restoration of a "woldae" in front of Gwanghwamun, the main gate of Gyeongbok Palace, in downtown Seoul on March 16, 2023.

This photo, taken on March 13, 2023, shows Y-shaped tramways, built during the Japanese colonial rule of Korea (1910-45) and recently discovered while restoring a "woldae" in front of Gwanghwamun,

Team Korea, the South Korean squad in the World Baseball Classic (WBC), poses for a group photo at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on March 3, 2023.

A model holds commemorative medals during a publicity event at the headquarters of Poongsan Hwadong Co.

Participants hold the national flag in a torchlight parade in Cheonan, 92 kilometers south of Seoul, on Feb. 28, 2023, the eve of the 104th anniversary of the March 1, 1919, Independence Movement.

A group of art college students performs as they reenact the 1919 popular movement that protested for independence from Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, in Seoul on Feb.

Workers change straw thatch on the roof of a house at Hueree Park in the city of Seogwipo on South Korea's largest resort island of Jeju on Feb. 28, 2023. (Yonhap)
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This photo, provided by the patriots and veterans affairs ministry on Feb.

South Korea's Taegeukgi flags are attached to trees at a park in Seoul on Feb.