FLU CASES RISE AGAIN — Children wait to see a doctor at Woori Children’s Hospital in Seoul’s Seongbuk-gu on Sunday. After a slight decline earlier in October, the rate of suspected flu cases rose for

A choir of children from multicultural backgrounds greets the audience during a multicultural festival in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province, on Oct. 4. (Yonhap)

Children train taekwondo at a dojang in Seoul. (Korea Heritage Service)

Seok, the biological mother of the deceased child, Boram, appears at a court hearing in this file photo taken on Aug. 17, 2021. (Newsis)

child in her care. (KTU via Yonhap)

A stock photo of a child reading a book. (123rf)

Children perform taekwondo at the 2025 Foreigner Taekwondo Exhibition Festival on Oct. 30, 2025. (Gangnam-gu Office)

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un examines a pair of pink children's sneakers held up by his daughter, Ju-ae, during a visit to a clothing and footwear exhibition on Monday, in this image aired by

Hong Ra-hee, former director of the Leeum Museum of Art, walks ahead of Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong as they arrive at an event at Seoul National University Children’s Hospital on Oct

Infants, young children and their guardians wait for vaccinations and medical consultations at the pediatric department of Ain Hospital in Michuhol-gu, Incheon, on Sept. 21, the first day of free flu

Visitors browse products at the Kobe Baby Fair & Early Childhood Education Exhibition at Kintex in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday. (Yonhap)

Children from a daycare center play in a pine forest in Gangwon Province on Thursday. (Yonhap)

A screenshot from the trailer for “Relative Strangers” shows mixed-race children in South Korea’s overseas adoption program. (Courtesy of Mu Films)

A couple who lost their child during an attack attends a memorial near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel, Wednesday. (AP-Yonhap)

A 3-year-old Mongolian child refuses a meal while facing a wall at an immigration detention facility in Gyeonggi Province during his 20-day detention in 2023. (Apil Korea)

Children dressed as Peter Pan and Tinker Bell take part in the Grand Parade of the 2026 Gangnam Festival in southern Seoul on Saturday. (Yonhap)

Yongsan Children's Garden (Newsis)

Children dressed in hanbok play jegichagi,at Namsangol Hanok Village in Seoul on Friday. (Yonhap)

Children dressed in hanbok play jegichagi,at Namsangol Hanok Village in Seoul on Friday. (Yonhap)

Children arrive at the Sci-Tech Complex as boys ride two-wheeled self-balancing electric scooters with handlebars in Pyongyang on April 16. (Hyungwon Kang)