Whose New Year is it anyway?
The struggle for cultural priority, supremacy, and naming between China and Korea is perennial: fishing nets, printing with metal movable type, kimchi…. Now it's over the lunar new year that is currently being celebrated.
"NewJeans' Danielle apologizes for calling the 'Lunar New Year' 'Chinese New Year'"
Yaki-Jones, allkpop (1/21/23)
Yaki-Jones, allkpop (1/22/23)
Might be better to avoid the orthological controversy altogether and just refer to it as the Lunar New Year.
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