Chuseok, this is the Korean holiday that's most like our Thanksgiving, or that's what we've been told. Either way, it's the most important holiday in Korean culture, which means we get a long weekend! Of course, Chris and I hear Thanksgiving and we think this means an awesome meal; come on, don't tell me food doesn't come to mind when you think Thanksgiving. So, we've been anticipating an invite from one of our closer Korean friends to a traditional Chuseok gathering. That is, until we used the handy dandy, world wide web and googled images of a Chuseok meal, and this is what we found.YEAH, I KNOW...this is nothing like Thanksgiving!!!We decided that we were glad our friends had not extended a hospitable invite to the foreigners, and we went on and made our own Chuseok plans just in case we did get a random last minute invitation. Instead, we are going to make a trip to Busan's famous Hyundae Beach (the best beach in Korea) with some other not-so-Chuseok kind of foreigner friends :) Even though we're not doing the traditional Chuseok, we're extremely excited about our long weekend, which we just found out includes paid days off for both Monday and Tuesday (we were only expecting Monday off)!!!
Happy or Merry Chuseok Everyone!!!
2 comments:
Happy Chuseok to you..Just checked out your Blog...Looks like you two aren't spending alot of time just sitting around...You are very missed but I'm so happy things are going well...Maybe we can find the time to Skype soon...Love you guys...Mean It!!!!! David
Happy Merry Chuseok to both of you ! June and I just Googled the holiday, and the only thing that resembles the holidays as we know them, are chestnuts! LOL
I hear it's a harvest celebration....you go to the beach, we're going to christian Way Farm! As for the dead relative thingy.....hmmmmmmmm NOT going there!
Enjoy your time off. Get an early start to the beach...looks like it's a happening place during this holiday.
WE LOVE AND MISS YOU !!
June & Jacki
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