[2024] Korean Lunar New Year, New Year’s Culture, Traditions, Food, and Gifts by Country
Image_Naver Blog Plato Reading Essay Official Blog Seollal (Seollal), along with Chuseok, is a representative Korean holiday and falls on January 1st of the lunar calendar. In modern Korea, the New Year is mostly celebrated on New Year's Day, which is January 1st in the solar calendar, and the traditional holiday celebration, when relatives meet, is celebrated on the Lunar New Year. On New Year's Day, it is a unique custom of the Korean people to hold ancestral rites for ancestors and bow to relatives and neighbors. It is said that if you sleep on New Year's Eve, your eyebrows will turn white, so some people stay up all night. After performing the ancestral rites and bowing, people enjoyed the day by playing various folk games such as yutnori, neolttwigi, and kite flying. On Lunar New Year's Day, we cook and eat various foods and serve them to guests who come to worship, and we always serve rice cake soup. The non-glutinous rice soaked in water is ground, mixed with...