Lunar New Year in both Koreas

Posted on : 2012-01-25 10:50 KST Modified on : 2019-10-19 20:29 KST

Above, North Korean children play with a jump rope as they celebrate the first day of the Lunar New Year in Pyongyang, North Korea on Monday, Jan. 23. Pyongyang residents said they were encouraged to celebrate the traditional holiday as they usually do, despite the death of Kim Jong-il, only the second leader North Koreans have known since the nation was founded in 1948.

Below, Seoul residents watch children dancing on adults’ shoulders as part of the Bukcheong sajanoreum at the National Folk Museum of Korea in Seoul on Jan. 24. Bukcheong sajanoreum is a traditional lion mask dance performed in Bukcheong-gun, Hamgyeongnam-do on the first full-moon day of the Lunar New Year and was widely performed to dispel evil and pray for the peace of the village.  

(AP Newsis and Kim Jung-hyo)

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