In the early hours of a freezing Christmas Eve, 62-year-old Lee Myeong-sook queues up in Seoul's ritzy Gangnam area for a chance to buy a t-shirt, or maybe even a toothbrush, branded with the logo of K-Pop boyband BTS.

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K-Pop fans brave Seoul's Christmas chill to buy BTS 'merch'

The week that was, in pictures