How Does Korea Celebrate Their Christmas And New Year?

Christmas and New year is celebrated in Korea with an attitude slightly  dissimilar to that of Europe and the Americas. Korea reverses Christmas and New Year’s Eve in terms of holiday company. New Year’s Eve is for family. Christmas is for young couples.

The air electrifies with festivities of a different sort,  shopping, meeting friends, etc. Young adults show off the hottest winter fashions, usually involving
miniskirts and finely tailored hip hop wear. Amusingly, one can still buy some roasted chestnuts and an egg nog latte in the anti-traditional neighborhood.

Despite the associations of a couples’ holiday, families do celebrate Christmas in a slightly more low-key way than their Western counterparts do.

The Christmas cake stands as the center of Korean Christmas. The Christmas cake has become such a popular item that any business that has anything to do with baking or sweets sells its own line of Christmas cakes. Each year they compete to outdo themselves and other businesses in cake decorations and promotions. As the crowds start to subside, young men and women brave the chilly night to loudly hawk the last cakes in stock.

Restaurants and hotels also serve traditional Christmas  dinners and buffets, and some people prefer to spend the holidays at  home with family and friends instead of venturing out in the cold to  restaurants