Hello 2023! Partygoers Begin Welcoming New Year As Celebrations Begin In New Zealand And Australia

The end of 2022 is underway as revellers on the other side of the world begin ringing in the New Year, as dazzling fireworks light up night sky in Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia.  

Thailand is among the latest countries to enter 2023 with its first set of fireworks light up the sky in city centre of Bangkok.

Cho Gue-sung, a footballer from the country's World Cup Qatar team, was among 10 honorary citizens to headline the event at the Bosingak Pavilion in central Seoul, which was spread over a much larger area this year to avoid overcrowding.

Elsewhere in the city, buddhist followers at temples attached name cards with wishes to specially erected fences, as is tradition, before lighting candles and saying prayers in front of walls made of lotus lanterns.