Wednesday, January 27, 2010

National holidays in Korea

There are two national holidays in Korea.
We called them the lunar New Year's Day and Chusok.
The lunar New Year's Day is a very good day for children.
Because old people give them money when they perform a New Year's bow.
We usually eat rice-cake soup on this day.
And we wear Korean traditional clothes.
The children who wear Korean traditional clothes look like angels.
They are so cute.
Anyway everyone celebrates the New Year.
Another holiday, Chusok, is the Korean Thanksgiving Day.
We get together and we play games.
We usually exchange Chusok gifts to each other, but these days because of an economic deadlock, we don't give Chusok gifts.
We make songpyons on this day.
Songpyon is a half-moon-shaped rice cake.
House wives including my mother, are very tired on this day because they made lots of food.
But I'm very happy on this day.

1 comment:

  1. This is such a good piece of writing. I love the image of the children who look like angels!

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