Hyon Song-wol, head of the North Korean delegation, returns to Seoul Station on Monday morning after a one-day inspection of possible sites for a North Korean art troupe's performance in Gangneung, Gangwon Province. / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

Conservative activists protest at Seoul Station Monday against the North's participation in the Winter Olympics. / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

A conservative activist sets fire to a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the North's flag in front of Seoul Station Monday in protest against the North's participation in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul

Hyon Song-wol, head of the North Korean delegation, enters the Lotte Hotel in Jamsil, southeastern Seoul, for lunch on Monday. / Yonhap

A motorcade, including a chartered bus carrying the North Korean delegation, heads toward central Seoul Monday. / Yonhap

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Conservative activists wave South Korean and U.S. flags and chant anti-North Korean slogans as a chartered bus carrying the delegation arrives at the Jangchung Gymnasium in central Seoul, a possible site for a North Korean art troupe's performance, Monday. / Yonhap

Hyon Song-wol is escorted into Jangchung Gymnasium in central Seoul, a possible site for a North Korean art troupe's performance, Monday. / Yonhap

A North Korean delegation led by the powerful female head of a national orchestra moved to Seoul on Monday morning from the eastern city of Gangneung, on the second day of their two-day visit to inspect candidate venues for its planned art performances during next month's PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

On Sunday, the seven-member team, led by Hyon Song-wol, the head of the Samjiyon Orchestra, visited two candidate auditoriums in Gangneung, a sub-host city of the games, 260 kilometers east of the capital.

They are scheduled to inspect a few more concert halls in central Seoul on Monday and will cross the inter-Korean land border to go back to North Korea.

North Korea agreed in recent working-level talks with the South to send a 140-member art troupe to hold two concerts, in Seoul and Gangneung.

The delegation is expected to report the results of their inspection to the North Korean government, which will make the final decision on when and where its proposed art performances will be staged.

A crowd of people gathered in front of the hotel in Gangneung as the delegates were having breakfast on Monday morning.

Hyon responded with only a subtle smile as journalists approached her and asked about her breakfast as the North Korean delegation boarded a train heading to Seoul earlier in the morning.

The window blind of Hyon's train seat was drawn as the train departed for Seoul. The police barred access to Hyon's train compartment. (Yonhap)