Chusok, Korean Harvest Festival

Chusok is one of the biggest holiday in Korea. It is 15th August in Lunar Calender. We usually get average 3 day-holiday for Chusok. Chusok is similar to Western Thanksgiving day.

Early on this morning Korean perform an ancestor worship ritual with food made of new crops, thank to ancestor for giving harvest and pray for good fortume. However nowadays It has been changed. Christianity spreaded out to Korea, There are lots of Christian. That's why they have own chiristianity style ancestor worship. In my house, we have different way to perform.

Usually In Chusok, All family members gather together who have lived separately to their hometown or the first brother's house. So we could ask how you are, and talk about some topics in own family. Thesedays It's quite difficult to visit each other if they don't live closely. In fact, some families could meet each other once or twice in a year because of their busy business. To be honest, My family also couldn't go to my grandmother's house on Chusok, because my father's shop was too busy.

Anyway, we have some games for fun, these are see-saw, Kang-gansulle(country circle dance under the full moon) for women. However, It's kind of traditional games so we don't do this thesedays. Instead of this, we just do some board games which is more familiar with us. As time went by, It went through lots of changes.

During my time in Adelaide, there is chusok in September. I'd like to visit my grandmother's house and look around my cousin's house in east-southen Korea. But I can't. It's little bit sad not to go there, but instead of that I'm looking for some festival in Adelaide and I'll enjoy that :)