Korean Chinese New Year

Although seollal itself is only one day long the days either side of seollal will also be public holidays.

Korean chinese new year. For the year 2018 lunar new year begins on friday february 15th. Seollal 2021 2022 and 2023 seollal or korean lunar new year is a major holiday in the lives of south koreans. 25 this year and people of chinese vietnamese and korean cultures celebrate with family and traditional foods.

The earliest references to korean new year are believed to be found in the 3rd century chinese historical work records of the three kingdoms book of wei volume 30. Seollal comes in january or february and involves family visits ancestral rites eating of traditional foods and playing of korean games. The calendar is also used in countries that have been influenced by or have relations with china such as korea japan and vietnam though occasionally the date celebrated may differ by one day or even one moon cycle due to using a meridian based on a different capital city in a different time zone or different.

Occasionally about every 24 years korean new year will occur one day after chinese new year because of the new moon between korea s midnight 15 00utc and china s midnight 16 00utc. You ve probably heard of chinese new year but did you know that the more accurate terminology is lunar new year the holiday is observed by many. The solar new year is also a family day for koreans even for those that live in the west where it is usually more traditionally celebrated with friends.

Lunar new year 2020 south korea in south korea each lunar year is represented by one of twelve animals in the rotation of the korean zodiac calendar and 2020 is the year of the rat. Seollal falls on the first day of the lunar new year calendar. The lunisolar chinese calendar determines the date of lunar new year.

In 2019 it falls on february 5 th and in 2020 it falls on january 25 th. New year s day is a family holiday and the lunar new year is a three day event in korea. Most people try to return to their family homes to spend time with relatives and to honor ancestors.

Lunar new year falls on jan. National assembly election day. Records of 7th century korean new year celebrations are included in the chinese historical works the book of sui and the old book of tang.