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Kimchi Fougasses

Kimchi Fougasses

Fougasse Dough : 350g flour, 50g whole-wheat flour, 14g fresh compressed yeast, crumbled, 200ml water, 50ml olive oil, 12g salt, 100g kimchi baechu, Flour, Olive oil   Preheat the oven to 230℃   1,2...

Korean Royal Ancestral Rite - Jongmyo Jerye

Jerye

Jerye is a formality to cherish memory of the deceased, and show sincerity and appreciation to them. The reason of performing Je-Rye is to continue filial piety towards ancestors.

Korean traditional funeral

Sang-Rye

Introduction of Sangrye Sang-Rye means the formalities observed in funeral service of a dead, which is the last rite a life should go through. Korea’s traditional funeral ceremony had been derived from ancestor worship...

Korean wedding custom that is traditionally held a few days after the official ceremony, with only family members present.

Hon-Rye

Introduction of Honrye This is a traditional marriage service for a couple, thereby linking two families and creating a new family.  It is a ceremony of forming a social unit through union of two...

Korean woman. Traditional Coming-of-age ceremony

GwanRye

This is a ceremony for becoming an adult, an event performed at the coming of one’s socially responsible age. In the old days of Korea, the ceremony was called ‘Gwan-Rye’ or ‘Gye-Rye’ according to gender of the subject.

Dongji Patjuk (Red-bean Porridge)

Dongji

Dongji is one of the 24 solar terms and has the longest day and shortest night of the year. The 24 solar terms express the nature’s changes into 24 equal parts based on the solar calendar, and ‘Dongji’ is when the sun’s longitude reaches 270 degree.

Songpyeon. A type of tteok to celebrate Chuseok.

Chuseok

It is the Korea’s best annual holiday, referring to the 15th day of August by the lunar calendar and having a meaning that it is in the midst of autumn and is the central day of August.

Korea Andong Dano Festival

Dano

The name of the holiday for the May 5 of the lunar calendar is Danotnal or Suritnal. The Dongguksesigi says, “On Dano, they make rice cake picking some kind of marsh plant called Surichwi in the mountain or make rice cake with mugwort.” Since the shape of the rice cake looks like a wheel, this holiday is named as ‘Suritnal’.

Rice cake ball. Traditional food of Hansik

Hansik

It is one of the Korea’s four biggest holidays along with Seol, Dano, and Chuseok. For some fixed period around this, it is forbidden to use fire, which is originated from old Chinese customs.

Mugwort rice cake

Samjinnal

Samjinnal is often called as Samjiri and is famous for a day of swallows flying in. This is a biggest holiday in spring, and various events and festivals for welcoming spring have been performed on that day.

Ogokbap, Boreum namul i bureom

Jeongwol Daeboreum

Jeongwol means the first month of the year and is the time when people plan for the year and would have their fortune of the year told. Jeongwoldaeboreum is an important and meaningful day of the Korean annual customs, so it is specially referred to as ‘Daeboreum (Special 15th day)’.

Koreans wearing hanbok and playing yut during Seollal.

Seolnal

Lunar New Year’s Day is one of the biggest festive days for Koreans. Originally the New Year’s Day was based on the thoughts on the worship of ancestors and filial piety, and the meaning of New Year’s Day is very sacred time on which the gods of ancestors who passed away before are invited and be with descendants.