The Meaning of Thanksgiving Day in Korea : Chuseok

Have you ever heard of Chuseok? Chuseok is known as Korean Thanksgiving Day. This year, Chuseok is on Friday, September 13th. During this period, Korean have a three-day national holiday. So we meet our family again and visit our hometown.

 

Songpyeon

On Chuseok, family members talk together and share delicious food. Songpyeon is a typical Chuseok dish, which is a traditional Korean rice cake made with sesame, red beans, beans, etc. It looks like half-moon shape. An old Korean anecdote says that the person who makes beautifully-shaped songpyeon will meet a good spouse or give birth to a beautiful baby.

And we put food on our ancestors at Chuseok. So we serve a variety of dishes like korean pan cake, korean style meatball, using squid and so on.

Hanbok

We play traditional games such as yui nori during Chuseok. Sometimes we wear hanbok which is Korean traditional clothes. Especially grandparents love their children wear it.

Korea's biggest hoilday, if you are in Korea, please enjoy traditional games or food. You can try to wear hanbok or stay in traditional house, hanok