Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In response, the South Korean government declared that Seollal was a folk day from 1985 to 1988. In 1989, the Roh Tae-woo administration accepted public opinion that the old New Year's Day should be re-vitalized, designating the original New Year Seollal as both the official Korean New Year and a national holiday. [10] [13]
New Year's celebrations vary throughout the world. Some celebrate the new year on January 1. Others take place later in the month—like Lunar New Year and Korean New Year.
Yunnori, traditional Korean game on Seollal. Seollal (New Years Day) Seollal is one of the most significant holidays in Korea, along with Chuseok. Seollal is New Year’s Day on the Korean lunar calendar. The name originates from the word seol, which means unfamiliar, implying newness of a new coming year. It is unknown when Koreans began ...
Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on lunar calendars or, informally but more widely, lunisolar calendars.Typically, both types of calendar begin with a new moon but, whilst a lunar calendar year has a fixed number (usually twelve) of lunar months, lunisolar calendars have a variable number of lunar months, resetting the count periodically to resynchronise with the solar year.
Kkachi durumagi is a children's colorful overcoat in hanbok, traditional Korean clothing, which was worn on Seollal, New Year's Day in the Lunar calendar. [1] It was worn mostly by young boys [2] and literally means "a magpie's overcoat". The garment is also called obangjang durumagi which denotes "an overcoat of five directions". [3]
Business and economy A group of Irish people are thrown out of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt after attempting to hand a letter of protest to the bank's president Mario Draghi. (Cork Independent) Disasters Manchester Airport runs out of aviation fuel. (BBC) Ireland is hit by another earthquake, this time off the coast of County Mayo. (RTE) Law and crime The defence of imprisoned U.S ...
According to a search of Newspapers.com, an online archive of more than 26,000 newspapers, the first mention of “Pride Month” was in a June 5, 1972, issue of Pennsylvania’s Delaware County ...
While Americans celebrate their independence on the Fourth of July, Canadians celebrate their national day a few days earlier. Canada Day, on July 1, is the national holiday when Canucks from ...