Emily Kim played a traditional game to celebrate Korean New Year. 76000 Picture: XAVIER SMERDON
By XAVIER SMERDON
NEW Year’s Eve is not just a big holiday in Chinese culture, many Koreans used the special day to pay respects to their ancestors and spend time with their families.
Emily Kim from South Korea has been living in Altona for the last four years but yesterday she spent the day playing traditional games.
The holiday is the biggest event of the year in Korea, lasting three days in celebration the first day of the lunar calendar.
One game that is popular with children is Yut Nori in which children throw wooden sticks in the air and move a small token around a board depending on how the sticks land.
Ms Kim also changed into her best Hanbok, a traditional Korean dress, and cooked her ancestor’s favourite food as a sign of respect to them.
