Chuseok, also sometimes spelt 'Chusok', is a major traditional holiday in Korea, celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the year. It is a thanksgiving feast and is also called Harvest Day, Harvest Moon Festival. Imagine mother’s day father’s day thanks giving and Halloween mixed together, let me explained
First it is a harvest festival for which we must eat special foods (thanks giving) next we must go through the traditional honoring of the ancestors by giving them their favorite food doc (pronounced duck) it a Korean rice cake made with gluttonous rice and pounded till gooey and formed onto half moon shapes and filed with sweet bean paste. Next we roll over to the grandparents and go and do some ritualized bowing for which we get paid cash and we through some sticks which the students had a hard time explaining to me? All and all a kick ass time where we get a week off from school and work and every thing is closed.
So with a week off I took some time to see one of Koreas national treasures Suwon fortress with two of my favorite middle school teachers Elaina and Melissa we spent a day trying to get mobbed by a large groups of angry Koreans as we made fun of the time less traditions and offered vodka to their dragon springs and imitated ancient scholars.
First it is a harvest festival for which we must eat special foods (thanks giving) next we must go through the traditional honoring of the ancestors by giving them their favorite food doc (pronounced duck) it a Korean rice cake made with gluttonous rice and pounded till gooey and formed onto half moon shapes and filed with sweet bean paste. Next we roll over to the grandparents and go and do some ritualized bowing for which we get paid cash and we through some sticks which the students had a hard time explaining to me? All and all a kick ass time where we get a week off from school and work and every thing is closed.
So with a week off I took some time to see one of Koreas national treasures Suwon fortress with two of my favorite middle school teachers Elaina and Melissa we spent a day trying to get mobbed by a large groups of angry Koreans as we made fun of the time less traditions and offered vodka to their dragon springs and imitated ancient scholars.
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