{"id":29819,"date":"2026-02-20T02:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=29819"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:33:35","slug":"south-koreans-swap-ancestral-rites-for-japan-getaways-this-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=29819","title":{"rendered":"South Koreans swap ancestral rites for Japan getaways this Lunar New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/02\/11\/c2562e55-1ff2-45fd-9588-933dc5f64c52_ff870294.jpg?itok=pWbd4qK5&amp;v=1770798977\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">For many South Korean families, traditional holiday gatherings may be getting smaller this <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Lunar New Year<\/span>, but suitcases are getting bigger.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">More than half of flight searches this holiday are for <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Japan<\/span>, signalling a sharp shift away from the domestic travel boom that defined the holiday last year.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Flight search data from Skyscanner shows Japan accounts for 51.6 per cent of all Lunar New Year holiday queries by South Korean travellers, with Fukuoka leading at 23.3 per cent, followed closely by Osaka at 23.2 per cent and Tokyo at 13.7 per cent.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The only domestic destination to crack the top 10 is Jeju, at 11.6 per cent \u2013 a steep drop from last year, when domestic destinations including Busan, Seoul and Jeju held the top three spots and made up 57 per cent of all searches.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The reversal is driven in part by the calendar.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In 2025, an extra government-designated holiday created a nine-day break without requiring any annual leave, encouraging families to complete traditional ancestral rites before adding a domestic trip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/east-asia\/article\/3343178\/south-koreans-swap-ancestral-rites-japan-getaways-lunar-new-year?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many South Korean families, traditional holiday gatherings may be getting smaller this Lunar New Year, but suitcases are getting bigger. More than half of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[5291,15985,2251,5247,13821,15984,5246,10528,791],"class_list":["post-29819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-ancestral","tag-getaways","tag-japan","tag-koreans","tag-lunar","tag-rites","tag-south","tag-swap","tag-year","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}