A performance takes place at Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul on Sept. 30, 2022, on the eve of the opening of the 2022 K-Culture Festival, which will run through Oct. 8. (Yonhap)
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A performer puts on a Talchum mask dance at the 2022 Andong International Talchum Festival in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, on Oct. 3, 2022.

Ahn Chi-yong, a master specialist on making handmade Korean paper who is designated as a national intangible cultural property, demonstrates how to produce traditional Korean paper, made of "daknam

South Korea's indigenous fighter jet KF-21 takes off from the runway of the Air Force's 3rd Flying Training Wing in Sacheon, about 300 kilometers south of Seoul, on Sept.

This undated photo, provided by the South Korean culture ministry on Sept. 28, 2022, shows South Korean traditional singer Lee Ja-ram performing.

Farmers harvest Korean ginseng, known locally as "insam," at a field inside the civilian access control line adjacent to the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas in the city of Paju, around

The U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan sails from a naval base in Busan, southeastern South Korea, on Sept.

A room at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is filled with visitors at a "hallyu"-themed Korean culture exhibition on Sept. 24, 2022.

Foreign tourists carrying masks in their hands walk in downtown Seoul on Sept. 23, 2022.

This photo taken on Sept.