featured Tomorrow the Moon Is Full: The Night Before Chuseok
Tonight is the part of the holiday nobody photographs. The rice has been soaking since morning, the kitchen is loud, and someone is holding up a rice cake shaped like...
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What to Send Someone You Can't Visit: A Chuseok Gift Guide
The hard part is never the budget. It's the worry that you'll pick the wrong thing — too much, too little, or the kind of gift that says you didn't...
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What Chuseok Actually Is (And Why "Korean Thanksgiving" Doesn't Quite Fit)
People call it Korean Thanksgiving. It's the fastest way to explain it and the fastest way to get it wrong — no turkey, no pilgrims, no fixed date. Here's what...
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The Grass Wakes Up Wet: What Korea Notices on September 7
The afternoon is still hot. But one morning in early September the grass is soaked without a drop of rain having fallen — and the Korean calendar has been marking...
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The Second Coffee: What Korea Drinks Instead
RootTerra Journal · The Afternoon The Second Coffee:What Korea Drinks Instead In Korean, the word for tea routinely means a drink with no tea leaf anywhere in it. That turns out to...
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The Heat Withdraws: What Changes After Cheoseo
RootTerra Journal · Cheoseo The Heat Withdraws:What Changes after Cheoseo August 23 is the day the Korean calendar stops describing summer and starts describing what comes after it. There are twenty-four solar...
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