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Do Koreans celebrate Chinese New Year?
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Many groups across Asia celebrates the lunar new year and in their own way. In my country there is no offense if someone used CNY vs Lunar New Year tho. It is associated with the Chinese immigrants that bought it into popular practice and it is accepted; but then we have 3 new year celebrations: western calendar new year, Chinese/lunar new year, and then Theravada Buddhism new year (Songkran; water festival) in April.
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It's Lunar New Year. The conception of it being Chinese New Year is a western perception, likely coined in those places with high amounts of Chinese immigrants. Even in the Chinese language actual event is Spring Festival or Lunar New Year.
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Oh and it's called Seollal in Korean
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