My Seollal Party 2015 Experience at Korean Cultural Center + Korean Youth Festival VIP Ticket Giveaway

How to say HAPPY NEW YEAR IN KOREAN?

"새해 복 많이 받으세요"

sehe bok mani badueseyo 

I was there! yeay!  Saira and I were there at Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines last February 20, 2015 to celebrate one of the most awaited event every year in Korea - Seollal. The Lunar New Year in Korea :D 

"The Korean Cultural Center will be celebrating Seollal or the Lunar New Year, more commonly referred to as the Chinese New Year in the Philippines, on February 9 featuring special events and programs that will highlight several important traditions of thanks and giving.
Included in the activities are the hanbok-wearing event wherein participants will get to try out Korea’s traditional costume, and the Korean traditional pattern painting, which will feature a hands-on lecture on how to paint traditional Korean patterns usually used in hanbok. Also, the participants will get to play traditional games such as yutnori and jegi chagi.
KCC will also be teaching the participants on how to make bokjumeoni (복주머니) or the Korean Traditional Lucky Bag. Koreans used to believe that this bag, normally embroidered with Chinese characters for life, luck, wealth or nobility will bring good luck to its carrier. The bokjumeoniwas used primarily as a partner to the pocket-less hanbok but now used as a gift wrap for small presents.
Seollal is the considered one of the most important national holidays in Korea, as it includes paying respect to their ancestors as well as catching up with distant family relatives who travel home for this occasion. Traditionally, Koreans wear seolbim or new clothes for the Seollal.
An important part of the Seollal is paying homage to the ancestors, called charye, where the rite includes a preparation of a table full of various foods such as tteokguk (rice-cake soup), vegetables and food. Tteokguk is the most representative food of Seollal, as the tteok (rice cake) is said to herald a prosperous New Year, whereas the white color of the tteok brings purity and cleanliness.
As part of the ancestral rite, the guests are encouraged to participate in eumbok because it is believed that drinking the liquor served to the ancestors help them to share in their ancestors’ values.
Following the charye, people do sebae (deep bow) to their elders as a New Year’s greeting. Children normally receive sebaetdon or New Year’s money. Also, a bamboo strainer calledbokjori is normally hung on the front door in the belief that it will filter out bad luck and let in good luck for a whole year.
Seollal is also a time for Korean traditional games such as jegi-chagi which is more similar to the local game sipa as well as the yeonnalligi or kite-flying, where the players wish luck for the rest of the year. Also the game yutnori is played, a board game where the players race to move the stones around the board by first using the yut sticks, four half-moon shaped sticks, as dice.


For further information and queries, please contact the Korean Cultural Center at 555-1711 or emailevents@koreanculture.ph. You can also visit http://koreanculture.ph for more information. "

Lot of activities were there, like Korean Lucky mini pouch Making, Introduction to Seollal ( learn to play traditional Korean games and how to bow to elders), experience wearing Hanbok and try Korean rice cakes. Since Saira and I were late for about (5-10 mins I think) we weren't able to enter the Korean Lucky Mini pouch Making Class that's why we first try the Hanbok Experience :D

Super nag mamadali yung mga tao kaya nag mamadali din yung itsura ko jan haha!

There's choices, Head dress or head Band. I chose headband kasi ang laki na ng ulo ko, baka lalo pang lumaki pag head dress haha! Di bale, Next time I'll try head dress. After I saw my photo I realized that I should tie my hair every time I wear hanbok. Mas Bagay eh haha! After that we waited for almost hour and a half for the program "Introduction to Seollal ( learn to play traditional korean games and how to bow to elders)"

We first watched Teacher Minchin (tama ba yung rinig ko?) and her student to play Gayageum. a traditional string instrument in Korea. :D I am sure that most of us are familiar with this instrument. :) Then, the Director head of Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines gave his talk. I love when Koreans speak simple tagalog words like "Magandang Umaga" or "Salamat po" :D 

We watched film about Seollal and play games haha! the prize is a VIP Pass to Korean Youth Festival in Ynares Antipolo :D 

Photo from KCC

Yeay! You saw me? I am the 3rd from the left haha! We learn how to Bow sebae (deep bow) we should only do this to elders as a New Year's greeting so we can received ebaetdon or New Year’s money. We actually received ebaetdon haha! a free VIP Pass at Korean Youth Festival in Ynares Antipolo :D 

We didn't finish the Program which is the korean traditional game because we have to go to the Culture Classroom for the making of bokjumeoni (복주머니) or the Korean Traditional Lucky Bag.

Photo from KCC

My beloved Korean Mini Traditional Lucky Pouch haha!

 I love the color haha! Purple YEAY! Hope my mini lucky pouch복주머니 will give me more luck this year haha! It's so fluffy and I LOVE IT :D

me with my mini lucky pouch 복주머니 haha!  

Luckily Saira got the 3rd place for the best 복주머니 :D yeay!! Hope that will be the sign that her lucky pouch 복주머니 will bring a very good luck to her :D

our Lucky pouch making Class
(I dont have eyebrow there haha!)
photo from KCC

then of course, we will never forget the FOOD!! Rice Cakes and  tteokguk (rice-cake soup)

tteokguk (rice-cake soup) is the best I promise you haha! and the brown rice cake also :D

I cant upload all the photos here in my blog so I compile it on a video..

Kamsahamnida Korean Cultural Center for giving us a chance to experience Seollal even if we are not in the Korea :D looking forward for more event!

GIVEAWAY TIME!
Since I have my schedule this saturday. I can't attend to Korean Youth Festival *CRY CRY* T___T
So I decided to giveaway my VIP Ticket given By KCC to us :D gustong gusto kong pumunta, may sched lang talaga ako.. *river of tears*
I can only provide One.. Isa lang binigay sakin eh haha!

How to join?

• Just like my Facebook page
• tag friends on the comment section on the giveaway post on facebook. (click here)

Deadline is on Friday 12:00pm :D I'll announce the winner on 1:00pm on Friday din hehe

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