Lunar New Year 2025 Korea. Are there public holidays in january? Known as seollal, korean new year is the first day of the lunar korean calendar.

The lunar new year is determined by the lunar calendar, which is based on the moon’s cycles rather than the solar calendar. 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 winter solstice, unless there is an intercalary 11th or 12th.