Lunar New Year 2025 Korea Greetings. Here are the standard ways of saying “happy new year” in korean. Seollal celebrations commemorate the first day of the chinese lunisolar calendar and start from january 29 this year.

Korean new year or ‘seollal’, falling on january 29 this year, is a festival and national holiday that usually occurs in january or february on the second new moon after the. The first one is 신정 (sinjeong) which is the korean solar new year and the 설날 (seollal), which is the korean lunar new year.