New Year Of Korea
Read about korean new year around the world in 2021.
New year of korea. Like a harvest festival seollal recognizes the cycle of seasons. It is known as seollal 설날 in korean. It is the most important of the traditional korean holidays.
New year is celebrated twice by several korean communities. Korean new year is also known as seollal 1st day of the lunar calendar. Seollal 설날 looks like seolnal but is pronounced seollal in korean when an ㄴ sound follows a ㄹ sound its pronunciation changes to ㄹ to make it easier to say.
Seollal usually falls on the second new moon following the winter solstice. South korea holidays 2021. As a celebration of the new year seollal allows korean families to rest after a year s work while also preparing themselves for the year to come.
What is the korean new year seollal. There are 323 days left in the year. Saehae bok mani badseiyo.
Korean new year seolnal in 2021 is on the thursday 11th of feb 2 11 2021. Korean new year is one of the most important occasions and significant traditional korean holidays. The event is considered as a family oriented holiday.
The celebrations last for three days. In such a case the new year falls on the third new moon after the solstice. We ll tell you all you need to know about korean lunar new year.