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  2. 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 gods that watch over the child, the preparation of a dolsang with various foods and ritual objects, and a doljabi (based on the Chinese zhuazhou), where ...

  3. Death of Jeong-In - Wikipedia

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    Death of Jeong-In. Jeong-In (Korean: 정인, June 10, 2019 – October 13, 2020) was a 16-month-old baby girl from Seoul, South Korea, who was abused and tortured by her adoptive parents for 271 days (8 months), and ultimately died on October 13, 2020, due to severe abdominal injuries. [1] Her adoptive full name was Ahn Yul-Ha (안율하).

  4. List of the most popular given names in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most popular given names in South Korea, by birth year and gender for various years in which data is available. Aside from newborns being given newly popular names, many adults change their names as well, some in order to cast off birth names they feel are old-fashioned. Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 844,615 people ...

  5. Korean birthday celebrations - Wikipedia

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    Dol (doljanchi, or tol) is probably one of the best-known of the Korean birthday celebrations. Dol is celebrated for the first year of a child. [1] The first part of the dol celebration is prayer. Traditionally, Koreans would pray to two of the many Korean gods: Sansin (the mountain god) and Samsin (the birth goddess).

  6. East Asian age reckoning - Wikipedia

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    How the age of a Korean person, who was born on June 15, is determined by traditional and official reckoning. Traditional East Asian age reckoning covers a group of related methods for reckoning human ages practiced in the East Asian cultural sphere, where age is the number of calendar years in which a person has been alive; it starts at 1 at birth and increases at each New Year.

  7. International adoption of South Korean children - Wikipedia

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    Source: Ministry of Health and Welfare (1968, 2005, 2023) The international adoption of South Korean children started around 1953 as a measure to take care of the large number of mixed children that became orphaned during and after the Korean War. It quickly evolved to include orphaned Korean children. Religious organizations in the United ...

  8. Baby Shark - Wikipedia

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    Baby Shark. " Baby Shark " (Korean: 상어가족) is a children's song associated with a dance involving hand movements dating back to the late 20th century. In 2016, "Baby Shark" became very popular when Pinkfong, a South Korean entertainment company, released a version of the song on June 17, 2016, with a YouTube music video which went viral ...

  9. Baby Shark's Big Show! - Wikipedia

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    In South Korea, Baby Shark's Big Show! debuted on the Educational Broadcasting System (EBS) with a Christmas special on December 25, 2020. [1] From September 2021 onward, the series airs regularly on EBS1 on Wednesdays and Thursdays. [6] In the United States, it premiered on Nickelodeon on December 11, 2020.