Lunar New Year, Groundhog Day, Mardi Gras, etc.
Considering the time difference, It’s not too early to start with the well wishes for the new year:
Seriously?
So they’d better not celebrate anything from Canada, the U.S., Australia, or NZ then, because our language and culture is based heavily off of British influence.
China is not the only country that celebrates the lunar new year…it’s just the biggest.
Think of Carnivale, and Mardi Gras, Karneval/Fasching: you wouldn’t plan a spring program with the Germans and call it “Mardi Gras” or with the Cajuns in NOLA and call it “Carnivale”, right?
Perhaps the outraged Chinese patriots thought that “Korean Lunar New Year” meant that Korea was claiming exclusive ownership of Lunar New Year.
Which should only be celebrated in Mobile, AL, in the western hemisphere, if we want to be original about it.
ETA: tpyo