![]() GoStop can get loud due to the belief that yelling when playing your cards can improve luck. Games are short, rarely lasting longer than 15 minutes but are a great way for everyone to unwind and have some fun. Players add-up their points, which are modified by the number of times they said “go” and then exchange small sums of money based on their total number of points. Players score points by matching features of the cards in a variety of combinations, and after scoring 3 or 7 points, must decide whether to continue “go"ing or “stop” the game. Each deck is broken into 12 sets of 4 similarly painted cards representing the 12 months in the year. Hwatu means “Battle of Flowers” and refers to the colorful images painted on the 48 cards in the deck. GoStop is an easy to learn game, often involving the betting of smalls sums of money, and is played by 2 or 3-people using “Hwatu” cards. Most families in Korea own a set of “Hwatu” playing cards in much the same way households in the West own 52-card decks. Games: When not eating or catching-up on each other’s lives, families often play games like GoStop and Yut Nori. There are scattered reports of youngsters trying to grow more than one year by consuming multiple bowls of ddeokguk, but the jury is still out on whether it does in fact accelerate the aging process! Much like Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) people spend days preparing large quantities of food for Seollal, sometimes resulting in what is called "Myung Cheol Chung Hu Kun" or “Post-Holiday Trauma.” This holiday exhaustion can also be the result of driving long distances, enjoying too much great food, or dealing with the clean-up after all the relatives have left. Children are especially excited to eat ddeokguk because consuming a bowl marks a person’s Lunar Calendar Birthday. Another very common dish is ddeokguk, or rice cake soup which, though eaten throughout the year, carries special significance on Seollal. The food prepared for the ancestors differs by region, but rules like the placement of the food are generally similar.įood: Though the food prepared for the ceremony of charye differs by region, the most common varieties are rice, soup, meat, seafood, liquor, fruit and vegetables. Both sexes participate in the final step of the ceremony called "eumbok," by eating the food and thereby gaining the ancestors blessing for the coming year. Ritual: The family traditionally participates in a highly structured ritual of ancestor reverence, referred to as "charye." Charye involves the preparation of food by female relatives and the serving of food to ancestors by male relatives. The centerpiece of the holiday is the ritual of ancestor worship, but there are other activities including eating together, playing games and “Sebae" where children and students bow to their elders and receive small gifts of money. ![]() Traditionally, families gather from all over Korea at the house of their oldest male relative to pay their respects to both ancestors and elders. In 2014, Seollal falls on Friday, January 31st - though the celebration is typically three days long, beginning the day before and ending the day after. ![]() Seollal, or Korean Lunar New Year is a holiday and celebration which marks the first day of the Korean Lunar Calender.
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