day 102festivals and folk games
unit 16 · history & traditionfestivals and folk games
Talk about holidays, festivals and folk games, and say what people used to do with -곤 하다.
today’s words
- 대보름 daeboreum · Daeboreum (first full moon of the year)
- 정월 jeongwol · the first month of the lunar year
- 연말연시 yeonmallyeonsi · the year-end and New Year period
- 송년 songnyeon · seeing out the old year
- 성묘 seongmyo · visiting the family graves
- 차례 charye · ancestral rite (on a holiday)
- 산소 sanso · (ancestral) grave
- 묘 myo · grave, tomb
- 연 yeon · kite
- 연날리기 yeonnalligi · kite flying
- 널뛰기 neolttwigi · neolttwigi (seesaw jumping)
- 줄다리기 juldarigi · tug of war
- 썰매 sseolmae · sled, sledge
- 탈 tal · (traditional) mask
- 탈춤 talchum · mask dance
- 가면 gamyeon · mask
- 불꽃놀이 bulkkonnori · fireworks (display)
- 폭죽 pokjuk · firecracker
- 개막식 gaemaksik · opening ceremony
- 식 sik · ceremony
- 성대하다 seongdaehada · grand, lavish
- 사회 sahoe · hosting, MC (사회를 보다)
- 장기 janggi · talent, party piece (장기 자랑)
- 참가자 chamgaja · participant, contestant
- 어우러지다 eoureojida · blend in, go well together
sentences
- 정월 대보름에는 보름달을 보며 소원을 빈다. · On the first full moon of the lunar year, people make a wish looking at the moon.
- 연말연시에는 가족과 친구들을 자주 만난다. · Over the New Year period people often see family and friends.
- 회사에서 송년 모임을 성대하게 열었다. · The company held a lavish year-end party.
- 추석에는 조상의 산소에 성묘를 간다. · At Chuseok people visit their ancestors’ graves.
- 설날 아침에는 가족이 모여 차례를 지낸다. · On New Year’s morning the family gathers to hold the ancestral rite.