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Whose New Year Is It? The Truth Behind Chinese Netizens' 'Korea Culture Thief' Frame and the Korea-China Culture War

Using Professor Seo Kyung-deok's 'Lunar New Year' labeling campaign as a pretext, Chinese netizens spread claims via social media that 'Korea is a culture thief' and 'Korea stole China's New Year to create Seollal.' Experts diagnose an inferiority complex stemming from the global spread of the Korean Wave as the underlying cause.