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| Workers wearing white hanbok hand-transplant rice seedlings in the paddy in Changdeok Palace's Secret Garden, Seoul, May 24. This annual event was held without visitors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul |
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| A man hand-transplants rice seedlings in the paddy during a demonstration in Changdeok Palace's Secret Garden, Seoul, May 24. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul |
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| Two people hold a "motjul," or rice seedling cord, across the paddy, so that the others can bend over to hand-transplant rice seedlings along it, in Changdeok Palace's Secret Garden, Seoul, May 24. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul |
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| Workers wearing masks bend over to hand-transplant rice seedlings in the rice paddy in Changdeok Palace's Secret Garden, Seoul, May 24. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul |
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| People pound steamed glutinous rice with wooden hammers during a demonstration on the Changdeok Palace grounds in Seoul, May 24. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul |
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| People dressed in traditional clothing standing next to the rice paddy at the annual rice seedling hand-transplanting demonstration event in Changdeok Palace's Secret Garden, Seoul, May 24. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul |
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