Kim Ju Hee (23 years old) started moving to Vietnam to study and live in 2019. However, this year is the first time the Korean girl celebrated Lunar New Year in the S-shaped land.

According to the plan, Ju Hee will celebrate Tet 2021 in Hanoi, with the desire to walk around Hoan Kiem Lake, take photos, enjoy food and visit family and friends.

Ju Hee shared that the weather in Ho Chi Minh City is also very comfortable, but there is not too much difference between seasons, only the rainy season and the dry season.

Unable to go on the road, Ju Hee decided to spend a lot of time exploring Vietnam’s traditional Tet right in Ho Chi Minh City, such as wrapping banh chung with friends and enjoying banh tet and Tet jam.

In the days leading up to Tet, Ju Hee went to school to wrap banh chung with her friends.

Ju Hee said that Lunar New Year is also a big holiday in Korea and an opportunity for family reunions, but currently many people have decided to stay home and not visit relatives at the beginning of the new year.

Meanwhile, Vietnamese people have longer vacations;

`Even if they work far away or settle in a big city, Vietnamese people will return to their hometown to visit their parents and family on Tet. I see this as a very good thing, because even though the economy is developing, they still continue to

One difference that caught her attention was the natural scenery during Tet between the two countries.

Having the opportunity to come to Hanoi in 2020, Ju Hee was quite impressed with the weather, food and Hanoian accent.

Before the New Year, South Korea canceled and banned the organization of mass gathering events.

She said that the capital Seoul and neighboring localities apply level 2.5 and the remaining localities are at level 2. Prolonged epidemic prevention measures make the lives of people and business households difficult.

Huynh Nhi