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Songpyeon (Korean: 송편) is a traditional Korean food made of rice powder. Its shape resembles a half moon and it is a representative rice cake of Korean holidays and traditional culture. It is a type of tteok, small rice cakes, and variety of fillings are used—some include red bean paste, toasted sesame seeds, and chestnuts.
Chuseok (Korean: 추석; [tɕʰu.sʌk̚], lit. ' autumn evening '), also known as Hangawi (한가위; [han.ɡa.ɥi]; from Old Korean, "the great middle [of autumn]"), is a major mid-autumn harvest festival and a three-day holiday in South Korea celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunisolar calendar on the full moon.
Hwajeon (화전) – small sweet pancakes made of glutinous rice flour and flower petals of Korean azalea, chrysanthemum, or rose; Bukkumi (부꾸미), pan-fried sweet tteok with various fillings in a crescent shape [3] Juak (주악), made of glutinous rice flour and stuffed with fillings such as mushrooms, jujubes, and chestnuts, and pan-fried.
This is the list of Hangul jamo (Korean alphabet letters which represent consonants and vowels in Korean) including obsolete ones. This list contains Unicode code points. Hangul jamo characters in Unicode Hangul Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode Halfwidth Hangul jamo characters in Unicode. In the lists below,
The 100 Cultural Symbols of Korea [1] [2] (Korean: 백대 민족문화상징; Hanja: 百大 民族文化象徵; RR: Baekdae Minjongmunhwasangjing; MR: Paektae Minjongmunhwasangjing) were selected by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (at the time of selection, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism) of South Korea on 26 July 2006, judging that the Korean people are representative among ...
Jeolfyeon (Korean: 절편) is a type of tteok (rice cake) made of non-glutinous rice flour. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Unlike when making siru-tteok or baekseolgi , the rice flour steamed in siru is pounded into a dough, divided into small pieces, and patterned with a tteoksal (rice cake stamp). [ 1 ]
CNN’s former Beijing Bureau Chief, Mike Chinoy, recently discovered he was a fictionalized character in a North Korean novel “Thunderclap.” Opinion: The strange story of how I became a ...
The seonbi were common figures in traditional Korean depictions of the Joseon period. For instance, a seonbi appears as one of the characters in the traditional mask dance preserved at the Hahoe Folk Village , where he competes with a yangban character, often depicted as corrupt and greedy.In some satirical novels, the Seonbi get the 'set menu ...