Korean New Year Day 2025. Known as seollal, korean new year is the first day of the lunar korean calendar. New year’s day while koreans traditionally celebrate the lunar new year (seollal) more extensively, the solar new year is still observed as a public holiday.

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. Seollal / korean new year holiday: