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Holidays & festivals

추석

Chuseok (Harvest Festival)

The harvest festival on the full moon of the 8th lunar month, with a three-day break — Korea's other biggest holiday.

DoFamilies travel to their hometowns, hold ancestral rites and visit family graves (seongmyo).

FoodSongpyeon, half-moon rice cakes filled with sesame, beans or chestnut, made together the night before.

Examples

  • 풍성한 한가위 보내세요.

    pungseonghan hangawi bonaeseyo.

    Have a bountiful Chuseok.

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