All posts tagged "chuseok"

  • Asian Art Museum, Korea Day
    SF art museum to host Korea Day in celebration of harvest festival

    By The Korea Times San Francisco staff The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco will host the seventh annual Korea Day Sept. 20 in time for Chuseok, the harvest festival. The event will begin at 10:30 a.m....

    • Posted September 16, 2015
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  • (NEWSis)
    US Korean banks offer free wire transfers to Korea for Chuseok

    A handful of Korean banks in the U.S. will offer free overseas wire transfers in time for Korean Chuseok, a harvest festival and one of the country’s biggest holidays. Among the banks joining in on waiving transfer...

    • Posted September 10, 2015
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  • cast
    [REUTERS] ‘The best Chuseok gift for women’

    – Fake casts for pretending you have an injured arm to evade having to help prepare holiday meals have become brisk sellers in South Korea ahead of the Chuseok festival. “We have been selling this for...

    • Posted September 5, 2014
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  • Along with Lunar New Year, Chuseok marks South Korea's longest holiday in which many South Koreans head to their hometowns for ancestral rituals and to spend time with their families. (Yonhap)
    S. Koreans begin mass exodus for Chuseok

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — An annual mass human migration started in South Korea on Friday as millions of people headed for their hometowns for one of the country’s major traditional holidays. Chuseok, the equivalent of Thanksgiving in the...

    • Posted September 5, 2014
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