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Len8
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
Location: Kyungju
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 Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:29 pm Post subject: Special holidays (Thanksgiving, Chusok, etc) |
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Was giving the interchange 2 book lesson about national holidays, and in the course of listing such things as chusok, thanksgiving day, halloween, new years, valentines day, easter, buddah's birthday. etc I tried to make comparisons between western national days and Korean national days.
I know Thanksgiving is often compared to Chusok, and I'm wondering if July the 4th could be compared to independence day in Korea. Is that a correct assumption.
Why is thansgiving similar to Chusok? |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| They are both like Harvest Festival? |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 6:45 am Post subject: |
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| Well, actually, Chusok is more a day to honor ancestors, which in a REALLY vague way resembles American Thanksgiving, when we kind of sort of honor our "pilgrim fathers" and mothers, too, since they probably did all of the cooking! It's not actually a "Harvest Festival," but to make it more "westernized", Koreans (in the past 3 or 4 years) have started calling it that. But yeah, Independance Day is the day that a country broke the bonds with the dominant country. |
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