New Year Celebration Korean

Sŏllal is the first day of the korean calendar it is one of the most important traditional korean holidays.

New year celebration korean. Koreans celebrate new year s day at the start of the year on the lunar calendar solnal and have done so for thousands of years. Firstly korea has two new year celebrations. The celebration usually lasts three days.

Seollal lunar new year s day. However many koreans now also celebrate the new year at the start of the solar calendar january 1 as westerners do. However in late january or early february koreans celebrate the lunar new year 구정 gujeong by having a large holiday known as 설날 seollal.

Thus many people in korea and abroad celebrate new year s day twice. While many observe sinjeong solar new year. Korean lunar new year marks the first day of the lunar calendar.

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. This year seollal falls on january 25 of the gregorian calendar. Seolnal is the new year s day in lunar calendar.

That is the celebration covered in this article. Seollal 설날 is the most celebrated holiday in south korea. Christmas day is one of the biggest christian celebrations and falls on december 25 in the gregorian calendar.

The day before korean new year korean new year itself and the day after korean new year. For koreans new year s day commonly known as seollal occurs at two times during the. January 1 of the gregorian western calendar koreans also celebrate seollal which usually lasts for three days the day of the day before and the day after.