Many Asian countries are celebrating the Lunar New Year, including Korea. The Korean Cultural Center is holding Happy Seollal, Korean New Year 2019, giving Thais an opportunity to get up close with various traditions and customs observed on Korean New Year this afternoon at 4.30pm.
The event will start with the saebae (Korean bow) activity to show how Koreans bow to pay respect to the elders on Seollal (Korean Lunar New Year). Then visitors are invited to learn how to make rice cakes using tteokme, or a wooden pounding mallet, and create bokjumeoni, or a fortune pouch.
There will also be a millstone-grinding demonstration and several traditional games often played during holidays, especially Korean New Year. They include jegichagi, an outdoor game in which players kick a paper shuttlecock into the air and attempt to keep it aloft; tuho, whereby players throw arrows into the top of a narrow-necked wooden jar; and yut nori, a board game involving with stick casting.
This is also a chance to try on traditional dress hanbok and sample tteokguk (rice cake soup), a traditional dish served on Korean New Year's Day, and bindaetteok, a classic Korean savoury mung bean pancake.
There is no admission fee. The Korean Cultural Center is located between Sukhumvit 15 and 17.
Call 02-651-0165.
