| Korean parents and grandparents are flooding to temples to pray for their children and grandchildren who are about to face the national college exam on Thursday. For the students, the College Scholastic Ability Test is the culmination of their many years at school and something that could determine their futures. Here, a woman is deep in prayer in front of Daewoongjeon, which is the main building inside Jogye Temple, in Seoul's Jongno District, Tuesday, where a special group prayer session for test-sitters was held. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk |
| Inside Daewoongjeon, visitors ― including mothers and grandmothers ― participate in a group prayer session as a giant television screen in the temple hall shows the names of those they came to pray for. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk |
| Facing the hall inside Daewoongjeon, where the ceiling is filled with hundreds of mock candles paid for by visitors to express their faith, people read Buddhist scriptures as they wish well for their loved ones taking this year's national college entrance exam. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk |
| Inside Jogye Temple, visitors lit candles as they wish well for their loved ones sitting the 2020 College Scholastic Ability Test. Over 548,700 high school seniors are scheduled to take the test at 1,190 test centers nationwide. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk |
| In a section of the temple's grounds, a visitor adds another note to the thousands that contain names and messages from visitors wishing well for their loved ones sitting the test. Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk |