In Korea people donāt stay up until midnight to ring in the New Year. Instead, they get up in the middle of the night and they hike a mountain. They climb through the dark, snowy pre-dawn hours and when they reach the top they stand with their faces to the sky to greet the first sunrise of the New Year.
What a contrast to how we in the West often enter the New Year ā stumbling out of bed at noon, tired and quite possibly hungover. For many, January 1st is a day of recovery. We spend New Yearās Eve celebrating the ending of something and the beginning of a new thing. We bombard the internet with reflections on the previous year. Even the less introspective among us take a moment to declare the past year, āthe bestā or āthe hardestā or āthe craziestā year of their lives.
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