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101 _ Holidays and Food Sebae, bowing to parents and elders, is an age-old New Year's custom. with golden words of advice and pocket money, the amount depending on their age and position in the family. This is one custom that is in no danger of dying out from rapid industrialization and urbanization. Some of the games that make this day special, but are losing ground to electronic forms of recreation, are a tug-of-war, kite-flying, seesawing, and yunnori, a kind of board game played with sticks. The tug-of-war is more than a game of sheer strength. Because the ropes are bound in such a way as to symbolize the joining of man and woman, the contest promises fertility and productivity for the winning team, essential for farming and fishing communities. Kite-flying is not only a sophisticated sport in Korea, but also the medium by which the previous year's bad luck and illnesses are released to the heavens. Over seventy different designs are known, including the shield kite, the baduk ("go" in Japanese) board kite, the skirt kite, and the stingray kite. The most popular is the shield kite, with its distinctive round hole. The hole acts to control speed and direction. These qualities were necessary for kite battles, in which boys tried to cut each others' kite strings, which were coated with shards of glass.
102 _ HELLO from KOREA Yunnori, a kind of board game Traditionally for girls over seven, the see-saw was their window to the world. New Year's Day used to be the only time of the year that girls could see over the courtyard walls. Nowadays, the see-saw is more a test of rhythm and balance than the social event girls look forward to all year. Jumping up and down on the low, flat board is a great deal more difficult than it appears. The momentum comes entirely from the timing of the leaps. The menu for this day varies from region to region and family to family, but common to every table is tteokguk, a soup of slices of rice cake in beef or chicken broth not the pheasant broth used in the old days. Koreans say that eating tteokguk means eating another year. Other dishes are dumplings, bindaetteok (mung-bean pancakes much more appetizing than they sound), and sujeonggwa (cinnamon tea) or sikhye, a rice punch. Families offer food and drink to ancestors in a memorial ceremony. Although memorial rites are held at other times throughout the year, but on this day ancestors are served tteokguk as well.
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