KIIP 3.12 전통 명절

traditional Korean holidays

설날

Lunar New Year (Lunar January 1)

정월 대보름

First Full Moon Festival (Lunar January 15)

추석

Chuseok (Harvest Festival) (Lunar August 15)

동지

Winter Solstice (Solar December 21)

음력

Lunar calendar

건강하게 오래 살기를 기원한다

Wishing for long and healthy life

부럼

Hard-shelled nuts

팥죽

Red bean porridge

송편

Songpyeon

떡국

rice cake soup

기원하다

To pray for, to wish for

피부병

Skin disease

일 년 동안 피부병이 생기지 않는다

to avoid skin diseases for a year

생기다

To occur, to arise

붉은색

Red color

쫓다

To chase away

가족과 친척들이 모여 윷놀이를 하다

Families and relatives gather to play Yutnori

연날리기, 제기차기 놀이를 즐기다

Enjoy playing kite flying and jegichagi (Korean hacky sack)

보름달을 보며 소원을 빌다

Make a wish while looking at the full moon

햇곡식과 햇과일로 차례를 지내다

Hold ancestral rites using newly harvested grains and fruits

풍습

Custom, tradition

한가위

Hangawi (another name for Chuseok)

황금연휴

Golden holiday

귀성 전쟁

Homecoming traffic battle

귀성객

Homecoming travelers

붐비다

To be crowded, packed

근하신년

Happy New Year

가득하다

To be full, overflowing

빌다

To wish, to pray

친지들

Relatives

보름달

Full moon

넉넉하다

sufficient, ample

풍성하다

abundant, rich, prosperous

덕담을 하다

To say good wishes, to give blessings

세배하다

To perform a New Year’s bow

설빔을 입다

To wear traditional New Year’s clothes

세뱃돈을 받다

To receive New Year’s money

V-게 되다

express a change from one state to another as a result of someone else's action or environment, against the subject's will. "became", "has been decided"

V/A-아/어도

shows the second clause occurs regardless of whatever is described in the first clause. 'even if' or 'regardless of whether'

민족

nation, ethnic group

다가오다

to approach, to come near

앞두다

to have something ahead, to be just before (an event)

발걸음

step, footstep

몰리다

to rush, to swarm, to crowd into

덕담

words of blessing, good wishes

조상

ancestors

빚다

to shape/knead (rice cake)

낳다

to give birth

전해지다

to be passed down, to be handed down (orally)

바라보다

to look at, to gaze

커지다

to grow bigger, to increase

진적

relatives (archaic or dialect. standard form is 친척)

찾아가다

to visit (someone)

단오제

Dano (Lunar May 5), Gangneung Danoje Festival

한식

Hansik, Cold Food Day

만물

All things, everything in nature

머리 감다

To wash one’s hair

씨름

Korean traditional wrestling

그네를 타다

To ride a swing

행하다

To conduct, perform, or carry out

널리

Widely, broadly

무형 유산

Intangible cultural heritage

신앙

Religious faith or belief system

바탕

Foundation, basis

풍년

A year of good harvest

풍요

Abundance, richness

제사

Ancestral ritual

올리다

To offer up, raise, present (in the context of rituals or ceremonies)

진행하다

To proceed, to carry out

인정하다

to recognize, to acknowledge