Members of girl group Girls’ Generation attend an event to open SM Entertaintment COEX Artium in Seoul on Jan. 13, 2015. (Yonhap)
Members of girl group Girls’ Generation attend an event to open SM Entertaintment COEX Artium in Seoul on Jan. 13, 2015. (Yonhap)
Los Angeles Police Department officers enjoy Korean food at an event to experience Korean culture at the Korean Culture Center in Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2015. (Yonhap)
Retired figure skater Kim Yu-na attends a ceremony at an ice rink in Seoul on Jan. 9, 2015, to give a wreath to Park So-yeon, who won a figure skating championship. (Yonhap)
Models showcase underwear on sale at an outlet in Seoul on Jan. 8, 2015. (Yonhap)
Special warfare forces are on a winter training mission on a mountain in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, on Jan. 8, 2015. (Yonhap)
South Korean actress Lee Yoo-ri poses during the “2014 MBC Drama Awards” at MBC Media Center in Seoul on Dec. 30, 2014. (Yonhap)
Shown is a file photo of the headquarters of the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. in southern Seoul. Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Mong-koo said on Jan. 2, 2015, that the company will build a 105-story building on the KEPCO land as part of a global business center that incorporates its affiliates, a hotel and an auto theme park modeled after Germany’s Autostadt by 2020. Hyundai Motor Group won a bidding war against Samsung Electronics Co. last year to buy the land by offering 10.55 trillion won (US$10.14 billion). (Yonhap)
South Korean actress Kim Ye-won poses after holding an interview with Yonhap News Agency in Seoul on Dec. 29, 2014. (Yonhap)
A group of child cheerleaders in the traditional Korean costume “hanbok” performs at a basketball game in Busan on Jan. 1, 2015. (Yonhap)
Cheerleaders dressed in “hanbok,” traditional Korean clothing, perform at a basketball game in Busan on Jan. 1, 2015. (Yonhap)