์๋ ํ์ธ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ! BDB Korean์ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ ์ค์ ๋๋ค! Hello, everyone! This is Hoorimi from BDB Korean!
์ ๋ ์ง๋ ํ์ฃผ๊ฐ ํ๊ตญ์์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค๊ณผ ์ค๋ ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋์ด์! ๐ ํ๊ตญ์์๋ ์๋ ฅ 1์ 1์ผ์ ์ค๋ ๋ก ์ง๋ด์. ์ด ๋ ์ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ด ๋ค ํจ๊ป ๋ชจ์ด๋ ํน๋ณํ ๋ ์ด์์. ๋, ํ๊ตญ์์ ์ค๋ ์ ์ํด๋ฅผ ์์ํ๋ ๋ ์ผ ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ, ์กฐ์๋๊ป ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ ๋ง์์ ๋ด์ ์ฐจ๋ก๋ฅผ ์ง๋ด๊ณ ๊ฐ์กฑ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ ๋๋๋ ์์คํ ๋ ์ด์์. I spent the past week celebrating Seollal (Lunar New Year) with my family in Korea! ๐ In Korea, we celebrate Seollal on the first day of the lunar calendar. Itโs a special day when families gather together. But Seollal isnโt just about welcoming the new yearโitโs also a meaningful time to honor our ancestors through ancestral rites and share love with family.
๐ ์ค๋ ์์นจ, ์ธ๋ฐฐ์ ๋๋ด
Seollal Morning: New Yearโs Bows and Blessings
์ค๋ ์์นจ์ด ๋๋ฉด, ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ด ํ์๋ฆฌ์ ๋ชจ์ฌ์ ์ธ๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ค์. ์์ด๋ค์ ์ด๋ฅธ๋ค๊ป ๊ณต์ํ ์ ์ ํ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅธ๋ค์ ๋๋ด๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ธ๋ฑ๋์ ์ฃผ์ธ์. ๋๋ด์๋ "์ฌ ํ ํด ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ฒ ์ง๋ด๋ผ", "์ถ๋ณต์ด ๊ฐ๋ํ๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋ค"์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ค์ด ์์ด์. ์์ฆ์๋ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ธ๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ํ ๋ ํ๋ณต์ ์ ์ง ์์ง๋ง, ๊ณ ์ด ํ๋ณต์ ์ ๊ณ ์ ์ ํ๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ ์ ๋ง ์๋ฆ๋ต๊ณ ์ ๊ฒน๋ต๋๋ค. ์ธ๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ธ ํ์๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋ ์ฌ์ง์ ์ฐ์ผ๋ฉฐ ํ๋ณตํ ์๊ฐ์ ๋จ๊ฒจ์.
On the morning of Seollal, families gather to perform saebaeโa deep bow to elders as a sign of respect. Children bow to their elders, and in return, they receive saebaetdonย (New Year's money) along with warm words of encouragement. These blessings usually include messages like, "Stay healthy this year!" or "May your year be full of good fortune!" These days, not everyone wears traditional hanbokย while doing saebae, but when people do, the colorful outfits make the moment feel even more special. After the bows, families take photos together to capture the happy memories.

๐ฝ๏ธ ์ค๋ ์์, ๋ก๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ช ์ ์์
Seollal Food: Tteokguk and Holiday Dishes
์ธ๋ฐฐ ํ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ํจ๊ป ๋ช ์ ์์์ ๋๋ ๋จน์ด์. ์ค๋ ์ ๋น ์ง ์ ์๋ ์์์ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ก๊ตญ์ด์์. ๋ก๊ตญ์ ํ ๊ทธ๋ฆ ๋จน์ผ๋ฉด ํ ์ด ๋ ๋จน๋๋ค๊ณ ํด์. ๋ก๊ตญ์ ํ์ ๋ก์ ๊นจ๋ํ๊ณ ์๋ก์ด ์ถ๋ฐ์ ์๋ฏธํ๊ณ , ๋ฅ๊ทผ ๋ชจ์์ ํ๋ชฉ๊ณผ ์กฐํ๋ฅผ ์์งํ๋ค๊ณ ํด์. ๋ก๊ตญ ์ธ์๋ ์ก์ฑ, ์ , ๊ฐ๋น์ฐ ๊ฐ์ ๋ค์ํ ์์์ ํจ๊ป ๋จน์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ํด์ ์์์ ๊ธฐ๋ ํด์. ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค๊ณผ ๋ง์๋ ์์์ ๋๋๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ธ์ ๋ ํน๋ณํ๊ณ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ด ์๊ฐ์ด์ฃ .
After saebae, everyone gathers to enjoy delicious holiday food. One dish you canโt miss on Seollal is tteokgukย (rice cake soup). Thereโs a fun belief that eating a bowl of tteokguk makes you one year older! The white rice cakes symbolize a fresh start, and their round shape represents harmony. Along with tteokguk, families also enjoy dishes like japchaeย (stir-fried glass noodles), jeonย (savory pancakes), and galbijjimย (braised short ribs). Sharing a meal with loved ones is always a special and joyful way to start the new year.

๐ฒ ์ค๋ ๋์ด, ์ท๋์ด์ ๋ณด๋๊ฒ์
Seollal Games: Yutnori and Board Games
์ค๋ ์๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค์ด ํจ๊ป ๋์ด๋ ์ฆ๊ฒจ์. ์ ํต์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ท๋์ด๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ํ์ง๋ง, ์์ฆ์ ๋ณด๋๊ฒ์์ ํ๋ฉฐ ๋ค์ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ธฐ๋ ํด์. ์ท๋์ด๋ ๋์ด ์๊ด์์ด ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ํจ๊ป ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์๋ ์ ํต ๋์ด๋ก, ์ท์ ๋์ ธ ๋งํ์ ์ด๋์ํค๋ฉด์ ์น๋ถ๋ฅผ ๊ฒจ๋ฃจ๋ ๊ฒ์์ด์์. ๋ณด๋๊ฒ์์ ๊ท์น๊ณผ ์ ๋ต์ด ํ์ํด์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ค๋ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์๊ณ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ค๋ ์ ํฐ ํ๋ณต ์ค ํ๋์์. ๐
Seollal is also a time for fun and games! Traditionally, families play yutnori, a Korean board game where players throw wooden sticks called yutย to move their pieces on the board. Itโs a simple but exciting game that everyone can enjoy, regardless of age. These days, many families also play modern board games together, adding even more variety to the fun. Laughing and playing games with family is one of the best parts of Seollal! ๐

์ค๋ ์ ์ํด๋ฅผ ๋ง์ดํ๋ ๋ ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์์คํ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ณ ์ข์ ์ถ์ต์ ๋ง๋๋ ๋ ์ด์์. ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๋ค์ ์ํด์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ณ ํ๋ณตํ ์ผ๋ค๋ง ๊ฐ๋ํ์ธ์! ๐โจย ์ํด ๋ณต ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ์ผ์ธ์!
Seollal is not just about welcoming a new yearโitโs about spending meaningful time with family and creating beautiful memories. I hope your new year is filled with health, happiness, and lots of good things! ๐โจ Saehae bok mani badeuseyo!ย (Wishing you lots of blessings in the new year!) ๐
๐ ์ค๋์ ํ๊ตญ์ด ํ์ต ํย (Today's Korean Learning Tips)
์ธ๋ฐฐ(ๆญฒๆ): ์ค๋ ์์นจ์ ์ด๋ฅธ๋ค๊ป ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ์ (New Year's bow given to elders on Seollal)
๋๋ด(ๅพท่ซ): ์๋๋ฐฉ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ๊ณผ ํ๋ณต์ ๊ธฐ์ํ๋ ๋ง (Words of blessing for someone's health and happiness)
์ธ๋ฑ๋: ์ธ๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ํ ์์ด๋ค์๊ฒ ์ด๋ฅธ๋ค์ด ์ฃผ๋ ๋ (New Year's money given to children after they bow to elders)
๋ก๊ตญ: ์ค๋ ์ ๋จน๋ ์์์ผ๋ก, ์๊ฒ ์ฌ ๋ก์ ๋ฃ์ด ๋ง๋ ๊ตญ (Rice cake soup eaten on Seollal)
์ท๋์ด: ์ ํต ๋ช ์ ๋์ด๋ก, ์ท์ ๋์ ธ ๋งํ์ ์ด๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ (A traditional Korean game played on holidays, where wooden sticks are thrown to move pieces on a board)
ํ๋ณต(้ๆ): ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ํต ์์์ผ๋ก, ์ค๋ ์ด๋ ํน๋ณํ ๋ ์ ์ ๋ ์ท (Traditional Korean clothing worn on Seollal or special occasions)
์ฐจ๋ก(่ถ็ฆฎ): ์กฐ์๋๊ป ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋ ๋ง์์ ๋ด์ ์ง๋ด๋ ๋ช ์ ์์ (Ancestral rites performed on holidays to show gratitude to ancestors)