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Korean New Year (Korean: 설날; hangul: 구정, hanja: 舊正), or the Lunar New Year is the most important of the traditional Korean holidays. It consists of a period of celebrations, starting on New Year's Day, celebrated on the first day of the first month of the Korean calendar. This is the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice, unless there is an intercalary eleventh or twelfth month in the lead-up to the New Year. In such a case, the New Year falls on the day of the third new moon after the solstice. (The next time this occurs is in 2033.)
