day 60Seollal and Chuseok
unit 8 · seasons, nature & holidaysSeollal and Chuseok
Talk about Seollal, Chuseok and other holidays, what people eat and do, and say “while” or “during” with -는 동안에.
today’s words
- 명절 myeongjeol · traditional holiday, festival
- 설날 seollal · Seollal (Lunar New Year)
- 추석 chuseok · Chuseok (harvest festival)
- 새해 saehae · the New Year
- 세배 sebae · New Year's bow (to elders)
- 떡국 tteokguk · rice-cake soup (eaten at New Year)
- 송편 songpyeon · songpyeon (Chuseok rice cakes)
- 윷놀이 yunnori · yut, a board game with sticks
- 연휴 yeonhyu · long weekend, run of days off
- 휴일 hyuil · day off, holiday
- 공휴일 gonghyuil · public holiday
- 연말 yeonmal · the end of the year
- 크리스마스 keuriseumaseu · Christmas
- 한옥 hanok · hanok, a traditional Korean house
- 태극기 taegeukgi · the Korean flag
- 왕 wang · king
- 역사 yeoksa · history
- 해마다 haemada · every year
sentences
- 새해 첫날 아침에 할머니께 세배를 해요. · On New Year's morning we make the New Year's bow to Grandma.
- 설날에는 떡국을 먹고 추석에는 송편을 먹어요. · We eat rice-cake soup at Seollal and songpyeon at Chuseok.
- 가족들이 송편을 만드는 동안에 아이들은 윷놀이를 해요. · While the family make songpyeon, the children play yut.
- 한국에 있는 동안에 한옥 마을에 꼭 가 보세요. · While you're in Korea, make sure you visit a hanok village.
- 해마다 연말에는 친구들하고 모여요. · Every year we get together with friends at the end of the year.