[Photo] Marketplaces are bustling in advance of the Lunar New Year holiday

The Lunar New Year holiday (Seollal) begins on Thursday, and South Koreans are busily engaged in making preparations. Celebration of the holiday requires preparing a great deal of food and setting it up in an elaborate fashion to properly honor departed family members. Here, citizens are shown braving the cold at an open-air market in Busan on Feb. 11, four days before the holiday is set to begin.