This photo provided by the local police station in Pyeongchang, some 180 km east of Seoul, shows red peppers and other crops being dried in its parking lot. The station has opened the space to farmers since 2004. (Yonhap)
An elderly woman spreads out harvested red peppers and sesame on the ground to dry them in the sun in the city of Chuncheon, northeast of Seoul, on Aug. 27, 2015. Sun-dried hot peppers, known as “taeyangcho” in Korean, are considered to be of the highest quality and fetch high prices at local markets. (Yonhap)