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  2. Korean birthday celebrations - Wikipedia

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    A less well-known birthday celebration is when a boy or girl reaches adult age (20 for the boy and 15 for the girl). When a boy turned into an adult he would tie his hair into a top knot and be given a gat (traditional cylindrical Korean hat made of horsehair). He would be required to lift a heavy rock as a test of his strength.

  3. Korean honorifics - Wikipedia

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    The age of each other, including the slight age difference, affects whether or not to use honorifics. Korean language speakers in South Korea and North Korea, except in very intimate situations, use different honorifics depending on whether the other person's year of birth is one year or more older, or the same year, or one year or more younger.

  4. Doljanchi - Wikipedia

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    Dol or doljanchi (Korean: 돌; 돌잔치) is a Korean tradition that celebrates a baby's first birthday.. The tradition has been practiced since the early Joseon period. The ceremony typically involves the ritual offering of a samsinsang to the god Samsin (whom is said to watch over children), the preparation of a dolsang with various foods and ritual objects, and a doljabi (based on the ...

  5. It's Kim Jong Un’s birthday, but nobody in North Korea is ...

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    In 2014, former NBA star Dennis Rodman was in North Korea for Kim's birthday, and sang "Happy Birthday" to him at a basketball match in Pyongyang. But citizens were told only Rodman had "sung him ...

  6. Public holidays in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    The day on which to esteem the personalities of children and plan for their happiness. In Korea, Children's Day started on May 1, 1922, when 8 people including Bang Jeong-hwan declared the Day and held an anniversary. In 1946, the Day changed to May 5, and became a public holiday in 1975. no no yes Buddha's Birthday: 부처님 오신 날

  7. Jin (singer) - Wikipedia

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    Kim Seok-jin was born on December 4, 1992, in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. [2] His family consists of his mother, father, and elder brother. [1] He is of the Gwangsan Kim clan. [3]

  8. Sixtieth birthday in the Sinosphere - Wikipedia

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    In Korea, the sixtieth birthday is known as hwangap, hoegap (회갑; 回甲), jugap (주갑; 周甲), gapnyeon (갑년; 甲年), or hwallyeok (환력; 還曆). [3] The sixtieth birthday is according to one's age per the international reckoning and not by Korean age. [4] [3] In other words, one's Korean age will actually be 61 at the time of the ...

  9. Date and time notation in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    The most formal manner of expressing the full date and/or time in South Korea is to suffix each of the year, month, day, ante/post-meridiem indicator, hour, minute and second (in this order, i.e. with larger units first) with the corresponding unit and separating each with a space: [1] 년 (年) nyeon for year; 월 (月) wol for month; 일 (日 ...