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Thanksgiving though derived the origin in the United States of America, yet it is celebrated with great vigor and pomp around the world. It is celebrated in Malaysia, Africa, Australia, in the United Kingdom, Canada, India and Korea.
Chusok is the Korean Thanksgiving Celebration. |
It is a three-day harvest celebration that falls sometime in September and October. Chusok falls on August 15 on lunar calendar. Korean Thanksgiving with the festive spirit also marks the biggest migration events in the modern Korea. Over half of the population visits family, friends and ancestral graves during this three-day Korean Thanksgiving holiday.
Korean Thanksgiving, Chusok symbolizes the importance of family and togetherness in Korean society. It is actually a reminder to the people of Korea that families are connected and attached together in the same fortune and that the ancestors live through the offspring as part of people’s daily lives. On Korean Thanksgiving Day also people gather, prepare traditional and tasty food, relish relatives, honor ancestors both living and dead.
For Koreans, pine needles are an essential ingredient of the Korean rice cakes called the song pyun. And preparing song pyun is the most loved festive activity of the Korean people. They also purchase apples, crisp pears, juju beans, chestnuts, sesame seeds and so on.
Korean Thanksgiving, Chusok also portrays the persisting gender discrimination in the society. Women spend several days cooking and preparing for the Chusok festival whereas men, on the other hand, do not help in the household chore and only relax and enjoy the festival to the fullest. No doubt much has changed by Korea’s industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, family remains the bedrock of Korean society and Korean Thanksgiving is a celebration of family only----both past and present.
Dgreetings.com offers you condensed summary on the Korean Thanksgiving and also provides gift ideas.
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