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Today is New years day of Korea. You might think it’s weird because today is just the day middle of February and it’s already passed one month and a half from the first day of 2014. In Korea, there are two ways to count the day, following the Solar calendar and the Lunar calendar. That’s the reason why we have new years day again of this year. Following the lunar calendar, the date is always different on each year and today is the first day of this year in lunar calendar.
For celebrating a beginning of new years, there are three days of holidays and everyone spend time with their family during this time. We don’t have to work and don’t have to go to class and it’s just ‘Red day’ which is the day that everyone can take a rest. So I’m staying home now.
All family gather at home and they share conversation talking about our recent lives. And the most important thing of this day is of course ancestral rites. Some family go to their ancestor’s cemetery or some people just do this at home like our family. So even though I’m at home, I’m much busier than normal days. My home is ‘Big house’ so every relative gather at my home so I have to help my mom cooking food, preparing ritual and cleaning the house. Even though my father is not the oldest, my family lived with my grandmother after my mom and my father married and because of some other reasons that I cannot tell you, our home is called ‘Big house’. Because of this reason, I couldn’t’ take a rest yesterday and even today.
But there is one advantage of this day. On the new years, we bow to adult and get some money from them. Now I’m too old to do it so I cannot got money from this one. But sometimes after helping my mom, my father gives a little bit of pocket money and for me who don’t have any job now, that is really good! But let me get it straight, the reason why I helped my mom is not just because of money! Anyway happy new year and see you!
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