No white Christmas this year

People wearing Santa hats walk on Seoullo 7017 as part of the Seoul city government's Christmas activities in central Seoul, Saturday. Yonhap

By Jung Da-min

While the coming days will be colder, there will be no snow on Christmas this year.

"Clear weather is expected on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but there will be no snow,” Ban Ki-song, managing director at Kweather, a private weather service provider, told YTN.

According to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), early morning temperatures will fall below freezing across the country on the two days.

Since the KMA started meteorological observations in 1973, Seoul has had a white Christmas in 1980, 1986, 1990, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2012 and 2015.