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![At 555 meters (1,820 feet), the Lotte World Tower in Songpa District, southern Seoul is Korea's tallest skycraper. [LOTTE]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12212082.jpg?imageId=12212082&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Graphics commemorating Pepero Day, an annual holiday on which Korean residents gift the snack to their loved ones, will appear on Lotte World Tower in Jamsil, southern Seoul, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Tuesday. [LOTTE WELLFOOD]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10154525.jpg?imageId=10154525&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Military helicopters conduct a flight rehearsal around Lotte World Tower in southern Seoul, as seen from Namhansanseong, a fortress in Gwangju, Gyeonggi, on Tuesday, a week before Armed Forces Day. [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10639935.jpg?imageId=10639935&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![A poster for 'Pokémon Town 2024 with Lotte' event [LOTTE CORPORATION]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10706529.jpg?imageId=10706529&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Lotte on Tuesday announced that it is holding a special media art exhibition with a whale theme at Lotte Tower in Jamsil, Seoul. Some 30 works by artist Jang Nam-won, who is known for his works on whales, will be exhibited to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the opening of skyscraper observatory Seoul Sky. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11628731.jpg?imageId=11628731&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![A 15-meter (49-foot) tall teddy bear is displayed on the lawn in front of Lotte Tower in Jamsil, southern Seoul, on Sunday. The bear, Bellygom, is a popular YouTube character created by an in-house start-up of Lotte Home Shopping in 2018. It currently has over 300 million YouTube views and over 1.1 million followers on social media. According to Lotte Home Shopping, some 500,000 people have come to see Bellygom since Friday. [LOTTE HOME SHOPPING]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10796417.jpg?imageId=10796417&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)