Jung Hyun - February 10th

Lunar New Year

            Lunar New Year is one of Korea’s biggest holidays. The entire family gets together usually at the oldest family member’s house. Koreans celebrate Lunar New Year by playing traditional games and consuming  traditional food, such as Dduck-gook. Dduck-gook is basically a rice cake soup with other ingredients in it as well like beef and egg. Koreans consume Dduk-gook as celebrating to adding another year to their age. One of many traditional games include Yoo-nori, which is a Korean board game where each person takes turns and throw the stick (as if it’s a die) and go forward or backward depending on how the sticks land. The first person to go around wins.