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2025 date: Wednesday, 29 January: Frequency: Annual: ... designating the original New Year Seollal as both the official Korean New Year and a national holiday. ...
This year, Lunar New Year starts on January 29, 2025, and ends on February 16, 2026. Celebrations usually end on Feb. 12, 2025. Related: 26 Authentic Recipes to Celebrate Lunar New Year
Communities across the world begin celebrating Lunar New Year on Jan. 29 — and 2025 marks the Year of the Snake. ... In Vietnam, the holiday is known as Tet, and, in Korea, it's called Seollal.
The seventh day of the Lunar New Year (February 4, 2025) is said to be when the Chinese mother goddess, Nuwa, created humanity. Thus, it’s called renri/jan jat (the people’s birthday).
The Lunar New Year — known as the Spring Festival in China, Tet in Vietnam and Seollal in Korea — is a major festival celebrated in several Asian countries. In Taiwan, this year, people have been drawn to the White Snake Temple to pay their respects.
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) lunar months, lunisolar calendars have a variable number of lunar months, resetting the count periodically to resynchronise with the solar year.
As per Presidential Decree No. 28394, 2017. 10. 17., partially amended, the following days are declared holidays in South Korea: [20] [21] 1 January - New Year's Day; 27 January [22] to 31 January - Korean New Year; 1 March - March 1st Movement Day; 5 May - Children's Day South Korea; 5 May - Buddha's Birthday; 6 June - Memorial Day
In diaspora communities, particularly in cultural enclaves, Lunar New Year is visibly and joyfully celebrated. ... 2025. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw) ... Tet in Vietnam and Seollal in Korea — is a major ...