5 Fun Activities Koreans Do in Chuseok

5 Fun Activities Koreans Do in Chuseok

Known as the Korean Thanksgiving Day, Chuseok is one of the most popular and festive holidays of the year. Koreans usually return to their ancestral hometowns to celebrate with their families, creating one of the biggest traffic jams of the year as people mostly take the road to enter the provinces outside of Seoul. When Chuseok approaches early, remember to spend the time with your loved ones and enjoy some delicious food to capture this Korean holiday's essence.

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1. Gifting

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Spams and tuna cans are one of the most popular gifts among Koreas during the holiday seasons. No one knows its origins, butย you now have an ample stock to makeย amazing Army Stew and Kimchi Jjigae out of them!

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2. Ceremony

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In Chuseok evening, Koreans perform a series of ceremonies to the earth gods and anscestors.

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3. Making Songpyeon

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- ๋’ค๋Šฆ์€ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ๋–ก ์ˆ˜์—… ํ›„๊ธฐ๐ŸŒธ . ๋‚จํŽธ๊ณผ ์ปคํ”Œ ํด๋ž˜์Šค ์‹ ์ฒญํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋‚จํŽธ๋ถ„์ด ์ผ์ด์ƒ๊ฒจ์„œ ํ˜ผ์ž ํด๋ž˜์Šค์— ์˜ค์…จ์–ด์š” (์•„์ˆฉใ…œ) . ๊ฐ™์ด ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋” ์•Œ์ฝฉ๋‹ฌ์ฝฉ ์žฌ๋ฏธ๋‚œ ์ˆ˜์—…์ด์—ˆ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ~ ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ๋„ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์˜ˆ์˜๊ฒŒ ์™„์„ฑํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!!^^ . ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ง›์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์Šค๋ฒ… ๋ณต์ˆญ์•„์ฅฌ์Šค(?)๋„ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์–ด์š”๐Ÿ’— . ์ข‹์€ ์„ ๋ฌผ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ˜€ . #๋–กํด๋ž˜์Šค #๋–ก์ˆ˜์—… #์›๋ฐ์ดํด๋ž˜์Šค #์ปคํ”Œํด๋ž˜์Šค #์š”๋ฆฌํด๋ž˜์Šค #๋ช…์ ˆ์„ ๋ฌผ #์‹œ๋Œ์„ ๋ฌผ #์ƒ๊ฒฌ๋ก€์„ ๋ฌผ #๊ฝƒ์†กํŽธ #์†กํŽธ #๊ฝƒ์†กํŽธ์›๋ฐ์ดํด๋ž˜์Šค #๋ฐ”๋žŒ๋–ก #๋งˆ๋ธ”๋ฐ”๋žŒ๋–ก #๋ฐ”๋žŒ๋–ก๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ #๋ฐ”๋žŒ๋–ก์ˆ˜์—… #๋ฐ”๋žŒ๋–ก์›๋ฐ์ด #๋ฐ”๋žŒ๋–กํด๋ž˜์Šค #์ฒซ์ธ์‚ฌ์„ ๋ฌผ #์žฅ๋ชจ๋‹˜์„ ๋ฌผ #์‹œ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ์„ ๋ฌผ #์„ ๋ฌผ์ถ”์ฒœ #๋ฉœ๋กœ์†Œ์ œ์ด #melosoj

๋ฉœ๋กœ์†Œ์ œ์ด ๋–ก๊ณต๋ฐฉ / ํ™”๊ณผ์ž / ๋‹ต๋ก€๋–ก(@meloso.j)๋‹˜์˜ ๊ณต์œ  ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋ฌผ๋‹˜,

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It's a classic rice cake special to Chuseok. Each household has their own receipe to make Songpyeon. The filling varies from sesame past to chestnut jam, but we all share one thing in common - put pine tree leaves at the bottom of the rice cakes when steaming them

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4. Ganggang Sullae

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Hello, guys~ today is Chuseok in Korea. It's been a long time to come to ma home town. I wanna let u know about the Chuseok๐Ÿ˜. Chuseok in itself means dinner in fall in Chinese characters. By lunar calender, it is the day of the full moon on August. Usually in this season people harvest what they have cultivated. So we celebrate plentiful crops on the full moon day. This picture is about playing Ganggangsulae. It is one of the traditions on Chuseok in korea. By doing this, we wish we could get many crops in the future. Interesting?ใ…‹ใ…‹That's what i've got today. Have a nice friday๐Ÿ˜‰ #blogger #life #lifestyle #chuseok #ganggangsulae #seoul #korea #korean #history #koreanhistory #koreanholiday #koreanculture #์ถ”์„ #๊ฐ•๊ฐ•์ˆ ๋ž˜

Univ. of Seoul - Economics๐ŸŽ“(@_jay_1218_)๋‹˜์˜ ๊ณต์œ  ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋ฌผ๋‹˜,

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A traditional game played by lots of people - the more the better. Originated from an episode of a battle that saved Korea from Japan, it's a simple play where family and friends hold their hands, make a circle and walk along to sing a song or dance.

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5. Chuseok Dishes

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์ถœ๋™๐Ÿ  . . ์ „์„ 5์ผ์งธ๋จน๋Š”์ค‘๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ . #์ „ . ์ „์— ๋ฌผ๋ ค์„œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ถ”์„์— ์ „ํ•œ๊ฑธ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋„์•Š์Œ๐Ÿ˜† ์ „์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ๋งŽ์ด ํ–ˆ์Œ ๋ฐ•์”จ๋„ค๋Š” ์†์ดํฌ๋‹ค๋„คโ˜บ๏ธ ์ €๊ฑฐ๋ง๊ณ  ๋ถ€์นจ๊ฐœ,๋…น๋‘์ „,๋ถ€์นจ๊ฐœ ์ „์ด๋ž€์ „์€ ๋‹คํ•จ๐Ÿ˜ข ์šฐ์„  ์•ผ์ฑ„๋งŒ ๋ฐ”๋€ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋™๊ทธ๋ž‘๋•ก๐Ÿ˜› ์†์€ ๋‹ค๋˜‘๊ฐ™์ง€๋งŒ ์•ผ์ฑ„์—๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ทธ๋ง›์ด ๋‹ค๋ฆ„๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜† ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ‘œ๊ณ ๋™๊ทธ๋ž‘๋•ก์—๐ŸŒŸ . . #๋™๊ทธ๋ž‘๋•ก #์ถ”์„์Œ์‹

แ„‹แ…ฉแ„…แ…ฆแ†ซแ„Œแ…ตแ„‹แ…ฒแ†ซOฬ‹(@orange._.yun)๋‹˜์˜ ๊ณต์œ  ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋ฌผ๋‹˜,

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There's tons of delicious dishes special to Chuseok - from Japchae to ceremony foods to braised rib stew, family gathers and share the foods together.

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