Korean New Year

In early South Korea people were using lunatic calendar. Afterwards Korea and the rest of the world started to use solar calendar. All the same most of Koreans are using both of calendars to assign important dates and holidays.
We can say Korean are celebrating New Year twice.
First is New Year's Eve. They are celebrating it similar to the western traditions - they are organising parties and let off fireworks.
Second is Korean Lunar New Year (also know as Seollal). It consists of a period of celebrations, starting on New Year's Eve. It doesn't have definited date in our calendar, because it falls out differntly every year. Seollal is the first day of the lunar Korean calendar and it last three days.

Korean New Year is generally the same day as Chinese New Year. In South Korea, the festival centers on family reunions, food and placating the ancestors.
During the New Year festivities it is common for adults to wear the colourful traditional costume, the Hanbok. Men's hanbok consists of a shirt and baji which means pants in Korea, and women's hanbok consists of a blouse shirt or a jacket and chima, a wrap-around skirt, which is usually worn full.



I would like to see Korean celebrating their New Lunatic Year.
Because today is 31 of December I wish everyone Happy New Year.
See you soon!
/Karotka