![]() ![]() ![]() During LNY, many workers in South Korea and other Asian countries get vacation time. I love the variety of fish cakes in the box. The following year, right before the announcement of the world’s need to shut down and distance ourselves from each other, I was gifted a box of fish cakes for Seollal. My love language is food, so of course I enjoyed it! red bean rice cake The next year, right when I started a new job, my boss gifted all the staff a box of Korean rice cakes. We decided to try a Japanese restaurant that served donburi. For the first year of LNY in Korea, I went out for dinner with a friend. I was not personally handed a good luck red envelope (“hong bao”) either.Įven though I wasn’t celebrating CNY with my family, I was still celebrating it in Korea. ![]() I missed the visits to family and family dinners. Since I was living and working in South Korea for five years, I missed those years of spending family traditions with my family back home in America. In some years, CNY could land in February. It depends on how each country follows the lunar calendar. Some years could have a day of difference. Most of the time it is celebrated on the same day as Chinese New Year. Additionally, Korean New Year is typically observed in January. Korean New Year (설날 Seollal) is a time for reflection and celebrating the new year. China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, and South Korea celebrate the lunar new year in addition to the solar new year. Lunar New Year is celebrated on the day according to the lunar calendar. (I will be using the terms CNY and LNY interchangeably in this blog post.)Ĭhinese New Year a.k.a. However, with more representation in the media and a growing population of Asians in America, it is more inclusively recognized as Lunar New Year (around the world too)! Since being born and raised in the USA, I have always known this holiday as Chinese New Year. ![]() No matter how you celebrate it, the next second midnight hits, or a few days later, we are all wishing our friends and family a happy new year.ĭid you know there is another New Year’s Day that is much more festive and popularly celebrated as well? For me, as a Chinese-American, and many other Asians including Vietnamese and Korean, celebrating Chinese New Year (CNY), or Lunar New Year (LNY) is more meaningful and enthralling than the New Year that we all know. A percentage of us probably won’t make it up past 10 PM. While others might enjoy it on a relaxing couch watching Miley Cyrus belt out her vocals live on TV. For some people, partying in the company of one another until New Year’s Day is a big deal. We would watch until the ball drops in Times Square New York. So, it’s January 1st and the beginning of a new year, are you celebrating by yourself or do you like to surround yourself with a lively group of people?įor many years growing up, my family would watch live New Year’s Eve. It’s no question that the majority of the world follows the Gregorian calendar. What better time to wish for a happy year than the new year? The beginning of the new yearly calendar will leave you wanting some change and something to look forward to for the rest of the 365 days. ![]()
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