Korean Lunar New Year Games

Known as seollal korean new year is the first day of the lunar korean calendar.

Korean lunar new year games. Important korean lunar new year vocabulary. As previously discussed in part 1 and part 2 of our seollall series the lunar new year known to koreans as seollal is an important time of traditions and rich history. We ll tell you all you need to know about korean lunar new year.

It is the most important of the traditional korean holidays. 설 is originated from the word which means unfamiliar implying newness of a new coming year it is unknown when koreans began celebrating seolnal but rituals of the festival are estimated. Korean lunar new year marks the first day of the lunar calendar.

In korea one of the most important holidays is lunar new year. This article was originally published for lunar new year 2017. Seollal lunar new year s day.

It is known as seollal 설날 in korean. Seolnal is the new year s day in lunar calendar. Read about korean new year around the world in 2021.

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. The exact day of the lunar new year will vary from year to year. Seollal s celebration lasts for three days starting the day before and ending the day after the lunar new year.

Traditional korean games in lunar new year. While many observe sinjeong solar new year. 설날 is one of the biggest holidays in korea along with chuseok also known as the korean thanksgiving day.