South Korea is celebrating the Lunar New Year this weekend. — -- Those visiting South Korea for the Olympics may be confused to find stores closed on Thursday and Friday. Friday is the Lunar ...

In China, South Korea, Vietnam and other Asian countries, children receive gifts of money from elder relatives during Lunar New Year. Children and other family members honor their elderly ...

Lunar New Year 2025 is approaching, and people will celebrate around the world. But what is the Lunar New Year, exactly? Though this holiday is often referred to as the Chinese New Year in the United ...

Seollal, or Korean Lunar New Year is a holiday and celebration which marks the first day of the Korean Lunar Calender. In 2014, Seollal falls on Friday, January 31st - though the celebration is ...

Getting ready for the Lunar New Year once meant buying a new set of ... opened the store six years ago after emigrating from South Korea. She says she's disappointed that fewer people are keeping ...

Lunar New Year hits differently during ... TikTok chefs, for Korean comfort food recipes. A Korean New Year's Day classic, tteokguk is a hearty soup made of disc-shaped rice cakes in clear broth.

a year wiser,” some say when a bowl of tteokguk is enjoyed during the Lunar New Year. In Korea, this rich soup, in which chewy rice cakes steep in a complex, milky broth, is tradition for the ...

Lunar New Year in South Korea, known as Seollal, runs for three days. The lucky money inside varies from $1 to several hundred and can reflect numbers of good fortune. The color of the ...

SEOUL — South Korea on Friday extended its limits on indoor gatherings as health workers reported the fourth straight day of record coronavirus cases, following the Lunar New Year holiday.

Happy New Year! We are now in lunar year 4713 -- the Year of the Wood Sheep ... The jishinbalpki tradition stems from South Korean student activists who brought it to the U.S. in the late 1980s. They ...