Jang Seong-woo (R) of the Yeongam municipality reacts after leveling the score against Choi Sung-min of the Taean municipality en route to winning the Baekdu weight class for athletes under 140 kil

Visitors, some of whom are wearing the traditional hanbok, spend time touring the royal Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul on Sept.

People going back to their hometowns take buses at an expressway bus terminal in Seoul on Sept. 8, 2022, one day ahead of the Chuseok holiday, which runs until Sept. 12. (Yonhap)
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South Koreans separated from their kin in North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War hold a joint ancestral ritual in Seoul on Sept. 8, 2022, one day ahead of the Chuseok holiday. (Yonhap)

Lake Baeknokdam at the peak of Mount Halla on South Korea's southern Jeju Island is full of water on Sept.

Kids wearing the tradition costume hanbok play "yutnori," a traditional Korean board game with four sticks, at a kindergarten in Gwangju, 330 kilometers south of Seoul, on Sept. 7, 2022.

Volunteers from a branch of the National Red Cross pack "songpyeon," a half-moon-shaped stuffed rice cake, in Suwon, south of Seoul, on Sept. 7, 2022, to deliver to impoverished people.

Volunteers from a branch of the National Red Cross carry relief packages on their heads while walking up steps in the southeastern port city of Busan on Sept.

A medical worker holds up a vial of SKYCovione, the country's first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine, at a public health facility in Incheon, west of Seoul, on Sept.

People tidy up a grave at a family cemetery at a town in northern Jeju Island on Sept. 3, 2022, ahead of Chuseok -- the major Korean harvest holiday, which falls on Sept. 10 this year.