The Biggest Holidays
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CHUNG Kyung Seo
It is my enjoyment to check calendar for holidays. But it seems like there are not many holidays that used to be such as Constitution Day. Major holidays in Korea are Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. We celebrate these holidays for different reasons yet they are bringing a family together. They have some commons and differences.
Nowadays, family doesn't frequently meet each other. They usually meet at the biggest holidays, especially Thanksgiving and New Year. On these holidays, we see family members and enjoy our time with them. These holidays gather people around and give us a bond. For example, we prepare our meals together. On New Year, we make dumpling. We make songpyeon, half moon shaped rice cake, on Thanksgiving. While we frame these, we chat a lot and discuss recent news. Not only that we have a memorial service in both holidays.
Despite their similarities, these holidays are distinctive. Season in these holidays is different. New Year is around winter, whereas Thanksgiving is on autumn. On New Year, we celebrate for our health, and coming year. In contrast, we thank our ancestor brought our food and nature. New Year is more special for kids. Parents, relatives, and grandparents give some money to their children and grandchildren for luck and wish them to be well on health and school work. Some members might give some allowances to children on Thanksgiving, but New Year is more customary to get money from family.
These holidays are waiting list on my schedule. I always welcome when these days are around. New Year and Thanksgiving are the biggest holidays. Unlike other holidays, they are gathering family. We bond together and have a great time. We cook certain dishes with lousy chat. But kids like New Year more than Thanksgiving. Kids get some money from their family members. For me, I like both of them. I like the fact that they make us to share a time with each other.
From Noh Young Sun to Chung Kyung Seo
ReplyDelete1.I like the choice of a topic of your essay. It never occurred to me to write about New year’s day and Thanksgiving in Korea.
2.The essay is about the similarities and differences between the two major holidays.
3.I like this sentence, ‘These holidays gather people around and give us a bond.’, because it sums up pretty well the essence of these holidays.
4.‘While we frame those, we chat a lot and discuss recent news’ I do not understand what the verb frame in this sentence means.
5.Why don’t you share your personal experiences regarding these two holidays? Details always make essays more interesting to read^^
1. What I like in this writing is your subject. Two of the holidays are most representative and meaninful in Korea.
ReplyDelete2. This writing seems to me about the smiliarities and differences between Thanksgiving and New Year as Korean holidays.
3. The sentence I like most is; These holidays gather people around and give us a bond. It's because this shows what is the most common points of the two holidays and why they are that important to Koreans.
4. I can't understand this sentence: Not only that we have a memorial service in both holidays.
5. I think if you add a little details for each caracteristics, this writing would be better
and get richer.
It is my enjoyment to check calendar for holidays. But it seems like there are not many holidays that used to be such as Constitution Day. Major holidays in Korea are Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. We celebrate these holidays for different reasons yet they are bringing a family together. They have some commons and differences.
ReplyDeleteNowadays, family doesn’t frequently meet each other. They usually meet at the biggest holidays, especially Thanksgiving and New Year. On these holidays, we see family members and enjoy our time with them. These holidays gather people around and give us a bond. For example, we prepare our meals together. On New Year, we make dumpling. We make songpyeon, half moon shaped rice cake, on Thanksgiving. While we shape these, we chat a lot and discuss recent news. Not only that we have a ritual in both holidays.
Despite their similarities, these holidays are distinctive. Season in these holidays is different. New Year is around winter, whereas Thanksgiving is on autumn. On New Year, we celebrate for our health, and coming year. In contrast, we thank our ancestor brought our food and nature. New Year is more special for kids. Parents, relatives, and grandparents give some money to their children and grandchildren for luck and wish them to be well on health and school work. Some members might give some allowances to children on Thanksgiving, but New Year is more customary to get money from family. I definitely waited for my turn to have allowance. It was my favorite time to be there.
These holidays are waiting list on my schedule. I always welcome when these days are around. New Year and Thanksgiving are the biggest holidays. Unlike other holidays, they are gathering family. We bond together and have a great time. We cook certain dishes with lousy chat. But kids like New Year more than Thanksgiving. Kids get some money from their family members. For me, I like both of them. I like the fact that they make us to share a time with each other.