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wonkavision
Joined: 19 Feb 2007
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:01 pm Post subject: Can someone tell me what I just saw? |
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I just walked through LaFesta in Ilsan to get lunch, and stumbled onto this big Korean ceremony involving 30+ men and women in white robes, white headbands, dancing in line formations, drumming, chanting....at first they were holding small spades (shovels?), then i ate, and when i came back there were tiny seedlings set up on the ground. left again and came back, this time they were wheeling a big cow around the circle.
it was not something my hangover was expecting to come upon, but all the same it was pretty awesome.
if you can tell me what i just saw, i would be greatly appreciative. |
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Ryst Helmut
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
Location: In search of the elusive signature...
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: Re: Can someone tell me what I just saw? |
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| wonkavision wrote: |
I just walked through LaFesta in Ilsan to get lunch, and stumbled onto this big Korean ceremony involving 30+ men and women in white robes, white headbands, dancing in line formations, drumming, chanting....at first they were holding small spades (shovels?), then i ate, and when i came back there were tiny seedlings set up on the ground. left again and came back, this time they were wheeling a big cow around the circle.
it was not something my hangover was expecting to come upon, but all the same it was pretty awesome.
if you can tell me what i just saw, i would be greatly appreciative. |
Gay pride parade?
Ok, maybe not...asked my k-wife...she's no idear either.
!shoosh,
Ryst |
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techno_the_cat
Joined: 30 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:56 am Post subject: |
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| It might be a blessing ceremony. I've seen quite a few of them in the last month. Apparently the tradition is to hold them in spring. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| Arbor Day is no longer a red day...but it's too early for that, isn't it? |
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:16 am Post subject: |
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| white robes, white headbands, dancing in line formations, drumming, chanting....at first they were holding small spades (shovels?), .... |
Maybe it was some sort of funeral ceremony. Didn't you see any casket or some sort of carriage that may carry a casket? If not, they're probably returning from burying someone. |
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BigBuds
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Location: Changwon
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| Pagen ritual? |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:39 am Post subject: |
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:42 am Post subject: |
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LOL 
Who do they hate? Waygooks? |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:04 am Post subject: Re: Can someone tell me what I just saw? |
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| wonkavision wrote: |
I just walked through LaFesta in Ilsan to get lunch, and stumbled onto this big Korean ceremony involving 30+ men and women in white robes, white headbands, dancing in line formations, drumming, chanting....at first they were holding small spades (shovels?), then i ate, and when i came back there were tiny seedlings set up on the ground. left again and came back, this time they were wheeling a big cow around the circle.
it was not something my hangover was expecting to come upon, but all the same it was pretty awesome.
if you can tell me what i just saw, i would be greatly appreciative. |
I saw da same ting in the morning. I thought it was pretty cool. I didn't have a hang over, though I did drink the night before. These people were dress in these beige costumes and beating these drums. I would assume it relates to some ancient tradition having to do with wanting a bountiful harvest. It is just a guess since one of the common ways of greeting someone in Korean is asking them if they ate something. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like a mudang thing- those Korean shamans. I don't know much about them, but a friend had one in the neighborhood, and she reported that the mudang had things like that going on fairly often |
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gsxr750r
Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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| Korean anti-FTA farmers showing how helpful they are to the community, and how they should be allowed to keep prices at 3 times what they could be. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like a mudang thing- those Korean shamans. I don't know much about them, but a friend had one in the neighborhood, and she reported that the mudang had things like that going on fairly often |
Well, I believe the Greek, Russian, Syrian-Lebanese dance where guys and girls hold hands and interchange and yell has to do with an old farm culture and a celebration related to food. I am assuming this is the same. |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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It all starts out pretty innocent and cool, but if you watched the conclusion it would have looked like this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=owaV4ocVwPk |
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Jack_Sarang
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| It was just a church thing. I walked by it briefly on Sunday. The big banner they had up said something like, "The Sounds of Heaven" etc etc and more Christian glurge. |
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