This is a harvest festival celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month according to the lunar calendar. This provides for a 3-day holiday and since it landed in the middle of a week day this year most people received a 4th day off of work as well.
A week before the holiday begins, families generally do a clean-up and lawn care on their ancestors gravesite. Usually Koreans do not bury family members in actual cemetaries but instead on rural hillsides. During the actual holiday, families dress up, sometimes in traditional Korean clothing (hanbok), and visit the gravesites to pay their respects to the spirits of their ancestors.
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| Hanbok |
After this, the families eat a huge Korean meal. The most important food during Chuseok is songpyeon, which means rice cake. This is not a typical Western rice cake that people eat when dieting. This is a delicious half moon shaped treat made of glutinous rice that contains a sweet juicy filling.
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| Songpyeon |
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