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2 articles

KoreanTraditions5 min

Seollal: the Korean Lunar New Year

Traditions and rites of Seollal, the Korean Lunar New Year: the journey home, ancestral charye rite, the sebae bow, tteokguk soup and the yutnori game.

29 avril 2026Read

KoreanSociété5 min

Korean age: why Koreans were one or two years older

Understanding Korean age: born at one, aging on New Year's Day, the three coexisting systems and the 2023 reform that made a whole country younger.

12 mars 2026Read