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Seollal (Korean: 설날; RR: Seollal; MR: Sŏllal) is a Korean traditional festival and national holiday commemorating the first day of the lunisolar calendar. [1] It is one of the most important traditional holidays for ethnic Koreans, being celebrated in both North Korea and South Korea as well as Korean diaspora all around the world.
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. Koreans now mostly use the Gregorian calendar, which was officially adopted in ...
The official name of the holiday means New Calendar New Year's Day no no yes Korean New Year: 설날 Seollal: 1st day of 1st lunar month Also called Seol (설) or Gujeong (Korean: 구정; Hanja: 舊正). The first day of the Lunar calendar. It is one of the most important of the traditional Korean holidays, and is considered a more important ...
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 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 celebrating ...
As per in the [Presidential Decree No. 28394, 2017. 10. 17., partially amended], the following days are declared holidays in South Korea: [11] 1 January – New Year's Day; 1 February to 3 February – Korean New Year; 1 March – March 1st Movement Day; 5 May – Children's Day South Korea; 8 May – Buddha's Birthday; 6 June – Memorial Day
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Chuseok (Korean: 추석; [tɕʰu.sʌk̚], lit. ' autumn evening '), also known as Hangawi (한가위; [han.ɡa.ɥi]; from Old Korean, "the great middle [of autumn]"), is a major mid-autumn harvest festival and a three-day holiday in South Korea celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunisolar calendar on the full moon.
Irworobongdo in the throne hall of Gyeongbokgung Palace. Irworobongdo (Korean: 일월오봉도; Hanja: 日月五峯圖) is a Korean folding screen with a highly stylized landscape painting of a sun and moon, five peaks which always was set behind Eojwa, the king’s royal throne during the Joseon Dynasty.