There are 2 New Year's day in Korea and 2 Different Age!

Hello everyone!
Hanboknam is back!
Do you know what is so special about this coming January 25, 2020?
It's our New Year's day.
Yes, some of you may be confused on what I am talking about!
You might think why there are 2 New Year's day?

Korea follows the Regular calendar as well as the Lunar calendar.
January 1st in the Regular calendar is what we all know, and for this year, in the Lunar calendar date, the first day of the year is on January 25th!

Interesting right?

Also a lot of people get confused on Korean age and International age, because in Korea we count our age differently.
Internationally, people get older on the day of their birthdays.
But in Korea, we get older on the first day of the year.
So whenever others ask Koreans on how old we are, we ask them back "Do you want to know my Korean Age or my International Age?"
Fuuny isn't it?

What we do during the New year's day is the same as the first day of the regular calendar day.

We wear our Hanbok and eat delicious DeukKuk.
Also we bow to our older family members and receive money.

We will explain it to you better in our YouTube video which will be posted this week!
Be updated!

Thank you guys and have a great week!

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