The British Museum, which suffered from comment attacks after saying it was 'Korean Lunar New Year', hurriedly posted a Chinese picture on Twitter and made it official as 'Chinese New Year' to appease Chinese netizens.



The British Museum posted a picture of a Chinese Qing Dynasty woman holding a rabbit on various social media on the 22nd (local time) and wrote 'Chinese New Year' on the hashtag.



The British Museum also wrote 'Chinese New Year' in the statement provided to the press.



A spokesperson for the British Museum said: "We celebrate Chinese New Year domestically and globally by holding events at the museum and wishing you well in the new year on our online platform."



He said, "This year, we held a 'Seollal' (New Year's Day) event with the Shilla Ensemble, which is a Korean music and dance performance designed to show the tradition of enjoying the Lunar New Year in Korea."



On the evening of the 20th ahead of Lunar New Year, the British Museum held events such as traditional Korean performances under the title of 'Celebrating Seollal Lunar New Year', wrote 'Korean Lunar new Year' on the promotional text, and was received from Chinese netizens on social media. I received a comment attack close to terrorism.



On the British Museum's social media, a well-known museum is helping Korea steal Chinese culture, and there is a 'Merry Korea Christmas' in the future.

Countless unreasonable comments have been posted, such as saying that it will be done.



Among them, there were many identical expressions or pictures as if they were copied and pasted.



After the event, the British Museum's tweet disappeared, and this time, another recent post received thousands of similar criticism comments.



Comments are still going on even after saying 'Chinese New Year'.



The British Museum proceeded with the event as scheduled at the time, but made some modifications, such as removing the expression 'Korean Lunar New Year' from the website notice and adding an explanation about the origin of the Lunar New Year.



The British Museum's announcement of 'Chinese New Year' is against the recent trend in the UK.



In the UK, the expression 'Chinese New Year' has been widely used, but recently it is gradually changing to 'Lunar New Year' in that it is also a holiday in Korea and Vietnam.



British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also invited figures related to China, Korea and Vietnam while holding a Lunar New Year event at the Prime Minister's Office last week, and said 'Lunar New Year' during his speech.



The BBC reported on this situation in the Chinese version that the controversy over the name of 'New Year' was growing recently.



At the same time, they introduced the opinions of experts that each person has a different culture, so they can have different terms.



(Photo = British Museum Twitter capture, Yonhap News)