Tag: Lunar New Year

Tweet of the Day: Is Chinese or Lunar New Year?

| January 30, 2025

Tweet of the Day: Freedom of Movement

| January 24, 2023

Picture of the Day: Lunar New Year Traffic Jam

| January 23, 2023
Seol exodus begins
Seol exodus begins
This aerial photo shows traffic clogging the southbound lanes of the Seoul-Busan Expressway in Suwon, 45 kilometers south of Seoul, on Jan. 20, 2023, two days ahead of Seol, Lunar New Year’s Day and a major traditional holiday, during which tens of millions of people visit their hometowns. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: North Korea Lunar New Year Concert

| February 14, 2021
N. Korea's Lunar New Year's concert
N. Korea’s Lunar New Year’s concert
This photo from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Feb. 12, 2021, shows singers at a Lunar New Year’s concert in Pyongyang that was attended by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Annual Lunar New Year Traffic Jam

| January 24, 2020
Heading for hometowns
Heading for hometowns
This aerial photo, provided by the National Police Agency, shows one side of the West Coast Highway clogged with vehicles as drivers hit the road for their hometowns on Jan. 23, 2020, the eve of the Jan. 24-27 Lunar New Year holiday. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Lunar New Year Traffic Jam

| February 2, 2019
Homecoming for Lunar New Year
Homecoming for Lunar New YearTraffic is congested in Jamwon, south of Seoul, on the Seoul-Busan Highway on Feb. 1, 2019, the eve of the Lunar New Year holiday. Lunar New Year’s Day, which falls on Feb. 5 this year, is a time for family reunions, with Koreans traditionally offering a ritual feast to their ancestors. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Lunar New Year Traffic Jam

| February 18, 2018

Lunar New Year traffic

The Seoul-Busan highway is crowded with heavy traffic in both directions on Feb. 16, 2018, the Lunar New Year Day, as people travel to and from their hometowns for the holiday. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Lunar New Year Sunrise

| January 30, 2017

Sunrise on Lunar New Year's

The sun rises over Seoul at 7:50 a.m. on Jan. 28, 2017, the first day of the Lunar New Year. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Traffic Chaos for Lunar New Year

| January 27, 2017

Homecoming for Lunar New Year

This aerial photo, taken on Jan. 26, 2017, shows heavy traffic clogging one side of a highway linking Seoul to the southwestern port city of Mokpo in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, on Jan. 26, 2017, as the annual exodus for the Lunar New Year holiday begins. Known as “Seol,” the Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan. 27-30 this year, is one of the two major traditional Korean holidays. The state-run Korea Transport Institute forecasts that as many as 31.15 million people will travel to their home towns or tourist sites nationwide during the Jan. 26-30 period. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Celebrating the Year’s First Full Moon

| February 24, 2016

Traditional rite on 1st full moon of lunar new year

Two elderly men erect a post on which rice, barley, sorghum and other grains are attached at the folk village in the city of Yongin, south of Seoul, on Feb. 22, 2016, which is “Jeongwol Daeboreum,” the first full moon of the Lunar New Year. The rite is typical of customs observed by Korean farmers on Jeongwol Daeboreum to wish for a bumper crop in the new year. (Yonhap)