Naver and other sites' doodles for Lunar New Year 2020
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As usual, the Korean portals changed their logos into cute doodles for the Lunar New Year (설날 in Korean) holiday. Naver had three that were especially pretty this time.
These beautiful animations were featured on Naver for each of the three days of the new year holiday, which this year fell on January 24, 25, and 26, 2020.
Three beautiful folk doodles for Lunar New Year 2020. Images: Naver
Clicking them brings you to Naver's usual onebox results of Seollal information, including the correct placements and types of foods for your traditional "Paying respect to ancestors" meal table. It includes similar imagery.
Naver's Lunar New Year onebox imagery. Image: Naver
These doodles were drawn by artist Eunho Lee (이은호) and are his takes on 3 classical Korean folk tale paintings. I highly encourage you to visit the Naver Blog page documenting his work, which includes imagery of the original historical inspirations.
Daum doodle for Lunar New Year 2020, day 1. Image: Daum
Daum doodle for Lunar New Year 2020, day 2. Image: Daum
Daum also includes similar onebox info results for TV schedules, transportation info, food prep, etc. Notice the cute little mice, as 2020 starts the Year of the Rat.
By the way, when did searching Nate start redirecting you to Daum? I literally just noticed that all queries entered there redirect to https://search.daum.net/nate?thr=sbma&w=tot&q=QUERYHERE
Google doodles
And here is Google's homepage doodle:
Google doodle for Korean Lunar New Year 2020. Image: Google
And Google's commentary on the doodle:
Today’s animated Doodle commemorates one of the most significant national holidays in South Korea, Seollal, the country’s observance of the Lunar New Year. It depicts the story of the grand race that earned the rat its premier spot in the calendar.
According to ancient legend, an emperor challenged different animals to race through the land to determine their order in the Zodiac. Due to his size, the rat knew it could not cross a river on his own, so he hitched a ride on the ox’s back. But, just before reaching the opposite shore over a river, the rat then cleverly leapt off—winning first place in the race and thus the zodiac calendar!
Often viewed as an opportunity to pay respects to ancestors and elders, this multi-day celebration gathers loved ones together to play endless games of yut and share some delectable tteokguk!
And I saved the best for last. Seollal greetings from your absolute favorite character (and Person of the Year for 2019): Pengsoo.
Pensoo dressed up for New Year. Image: E Today news
Actually this was for Solar New Year 2020, but whatever. Same shit, different day.
Traffic congestion during Lunar New Year
Finally here's that table again provided by Naver of the most commonly congested highway portions in South Korea during average Lunar New Years hometown travel. Hope you're not on any of these sections today.
You can get this table in text form (to copy/paste, whatever) here.
Top 10 congested highway portions during Lunar New Year in Korea. Image: Naver
Personally, I'll visit a friend's house later today and probably end up being politely but boisterously encouraged to make his son use his English. As long as the bokbunjajoo is flowing, I'll go with the flow too. Happy New Year folks.
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