Korean Seollal

Synopsis:
Each year millions of families fight through the congested traffic to return back to their home town to celebrate "Seollal" or the "Lunar New Year".Seollal is a day to pay respect to parents and to deceased ancestors. This form of ritual involves various customs such as waring the traditional Korean "Hanbok", performing the "Sabae" and "Charye", or eating traditional foods like "tteokguk". This is one of the biggest days in Korea along with "Chuseok", a holiday similar to Thanksgiving Day.

Produced by Kevin J. Brenneman (c) Dogmoneky Productions 2008

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Seollal
• Lunar New Years
• Korea
• sabae
• Chuseok
• Charye
• Hanbok
• tteokguk
• hangul
• international
• Kevin
• Dogmonkey Productions
• holiday
• Lebron