Importance Of Korean Holidays

South Korean Holiday’s South Korea has a very rich culture full of many different traditions. These traditions date back thousands of years. A major part of their tradition are holidays like Seollal and Chuseok. Soellal and Chuseok. This essay will discuss different holidays of the Korean Calendar. The first holiday of the year is Seollal. Seollal is the Korean name for Lunar New Years and also the first day of the Lunar Calendar. () The holiday usually falls between January 27th to January 29th. The holiday usually last three days. An important aspect of the holiday is people paying respect to their ancestors. Traditional clothing, called the Hanbok is worn. To illustrate the importance of the holiday, Koreans often where special hanboks that are only worn for Seollal and are called seolbum. Families prepare up to a week in advance for the festivities. Likewise, they …show more content…
The is also known as Sam-il (3,1) because it lands on the first of March. This holiday celebrates the 1919 independence movement from Japanese. The movement was inspired by the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Within the same month, the former Korean emperor was murdered. Those two events led to students writing a Declaration of Independence. It was not signed until March 1st of that year. Consequently, all of the signers of the Korean Declaration of Independence were arrested. In their absence copies of the declaration was read around the country and many people marched in protest of Japanese occupation and the arrest of the signers. Many protesters were killed or sent to prison for their protests. The town of Jeam-ri suffered the biggest lost of all. All members of their town were killed as the attended a meeting in their church. The cruelty faced by the Korean citizens led them to set up the Provisional Government of Korea () However, Korea did not get their independence from Japan until the end of World War