The difference between bún tươi and bún khô

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There are two versions of Vietnamese rice noodles available. I'd like to know what is the difference, if any. They seem almost identical.

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there doesn't seem to be a difference in the two. They are both rice vermicelli noodles.

While I found very few search results in English, they appear to be the same. I also searched images and found that there are packages of each but there are also packages labeled like this:

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So I came away thinking it's more semantics than anything.