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Lotus flower lantern workshops are common sights across the communities that celebrate the festival not only in South Korea, but around the world. Custom designed lanterns made for Yeondeunghoe have an underlying frame covered with a paper sheathing and internal lights. A lantern frame is made of split bamboo or aluminum armature wire.
The Lantern Festival celebrates the first full moon of the year — hence the name (Yuan means beginning. Xiao means night). It marks the departure of winter and the beginning of the spring season.
Seoul Lantern Festival 2014. The Seoul Lantern Festival changed its Korean name in 2014 to the Seoul Bitchorong Festival, but there was no change to the name in English. According to the organizing committee, it has changed the Korean name because the festival has expanded to be a combination of traditional lanterns and modern lights like LEDs ...
Lanterns featuring lotus and other traditional figures and objects representing people's wishes will be hung from May 6 to 22, from 6 p.m. to midnight at Jogyesa Temple [10] The highlight of the three-day-long celebration is the Lotus Lantern Parade, which winds along Jongno Street from Dongdaemun Gate to Jogyesa Temple. With thousands of ...
Holding umbrellas and pink paper lotus flowers, thousands of South Koreans joyously filled the wet streets of Seoul in an annual festival anticipating Buddha’s birthday the coming week. Despite ...
Foreign reporters who were visiting Korea for the G20 Seoul Summit reported at the festival. With some success, in 2011 its name was changed from the Seoul World Lantern Festival to the Seoul Lantern Festival and the theme was "Stories of Seoul's Past through Lanterns Plus"; there was again rapid growth, a 24% rise in the number of total visitors.
During the Lantern Festival, the park is a virtual ocean of lanterns. Many new designs attract large numbers of visitors. The most eye-catching lantern is the Dragon Pole. This is a lantern in the shape of a golden dragon, spiraling up a 38-meter-high pole, spewing fireworks from its mouth.
The traditional Korean calendar or Dangun calendar (Korean: 단군; Hanja: 檀君) is a lunisolar calendar.Dates are calculated from Korea's meridian (135th meridian east in modern time for South Korea), and observances and festivals are based in Korean culture.