Seollal: Korea’s Lunar New Year Rite of Renewal
Seollal, Korea’s Lunar New Year, is one of the country’s most important cultural and spiritual celebrations. Rooted in ancient seasonal observances, it blends pre-Confucian folk beliefs, early agricultural astronomy, and later Confucian ancestral rites shaped during the Joseon dynasty. While the festival marks the turning of the lunar cycle, it also preserves several layers of older cosmology. These include reverence
