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Korea By: Nichole Nickelson Traditions and Rituals Chuseok Chuseok is a one of the biggest Korean holidays Considered the Korean Thanksgiving Three day holiday Based on the lunar calendar This past year it took

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Korea

By: Nichole Nickelson

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Traditions and Rituals

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Chuseok

Chuseok is a one of the

biggest Korean holidays

Considered the Korean

Thanksgiving

Three day holiday
Based on the lunar

calendar

This past year it took

place from September 7 - 10th

This year it will fall on

September 26 - 29th

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Charye - ancestor memorial service
Beolcho- cleaning up around the

grave

Ssireum - Korean wrestling
Ganggangsullae - Korean circle

dance

Rituals

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Traditions

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Clothing

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Jeogori - Blouse-

like shirt with long sleeves

Chima - Long

skirts

Paji - Baggy pants

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Clothing usually made from hemp,

ramie, cotton muslin, silk, or satin

Commoners wore white
Upper class wore bright colors like

yellow, red, blue, and black

Represents traditional elements in

Oriental cosmology

Dyes made from flowers and bark

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Language

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Hangul
Part of the Altaic language family
Shared between North and South

Korea

Considered one of the easiest and

well planned languages in history

Extremely easy alphabet

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Religion

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Mahayana Buddhism
Confucianism
Christianity
Introduced by Jesuits in China
World’s largest churches

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Lifestyle

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Bowing when greeting those above you

socially or by age

When eating, it’s disrespectful to hold

bowl of rice in hand

Disrespectful to stick spoon or

chopsticks in bowl of rice