Korea’s biggest holiday, Chusok, has just passed a few days ago. It’s like our American Thanksgiving in that it’s a harvest festival. Everyone takes three days and goes home to visit their family and remember the traditions of their culture. I think the similarity ends there. On Chusok, everyone goes to honor their ancestors, wears Hanbok (traditional clothes), eats traditional foods and plays traditional games. Employers give large gift sets of such things as bottles of liquor, packs of canned Spam (yes, Spam), or packs of seaweed for Sushi. My school gave gift packs that included shampoo, cream rinse, 6 bars of soap, and 10 tubes of tooth paste. In celebration of the holiday, my school had Hanbok Day where we got to do all the traditional stuff. It was a lot of fun! I thought
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