day 74holidays & customs
unit 10 · seasons, customs & natureholidays & customs
Talk about Korean holidays and customs through the year: Lunar New Year, the full moon, Chuseok, Christmas and summer holidays, with New Year wishes and zodiac signs.
today’s words
- 기념 ginyeom · commemoration, to mark (an occasion)
- 기도 gido · prayer
- 눈사람 nunsaram · snowman
- 눈싸움 nunssaum · snowball fight
- 띠 tti · zodiac sign (Chinese zodiac)
- 맞이하다 majihada · welcome, greet (a guest, the new year)
- 무덤 mudeom · grave, tomb
- 민속놀이 minsongnori · traditional (folk) game
- 바둑 baduk · baduk (the board game go)
- 보름 boreum · fifteen days; the 15th day of a lunar month
- 보름달 boreumdal · full moon
- 복 bok · good fortune, luck, blessing
- 빌다 bilda · wish (for), pray (for)
- 설 seol · Lunar New Year (설날)
- 성당 seongdang · (Catholic) church, cathedral
- 소원 sowon · wish
- 속담 sokdam · proverb, saying
- 신나다 sinnada · be excited, have a great time
- 신부 sinbu · (Catholic) priest
- 양력 yangnyeok · the solar (Western) calendar
- 여름철 yeoreumcheol · summertime, the summer season
- 여름휴가 yeoreumhyuga · summer holiday
sentences
- 양력 1월 1일에도 새해를 맞이해요. · People also see in the new year on 1 January.
- 설에는 가족들이 모여서 떡국을 먹어요. · At Lunar New Year, families get together and eat rice-cake soup.
- 아, 한국에서는 생일에 미역국을 먹는구나! · Oh, so in Korea you eat seaweed soup on your birthday!
- 졸업 기념으로 가족사진을 찍었어요. · We took a family photo to mark the graduation.
- 여름철에는 여름휴가를 가는 사람이 많아요. · Lots of people go on holiday in the summertime.