Koreans eat THIS soup every New Year! 😳 💬

happy new year from the teuida team 💖

2024. 1. 2.

Hello Everyone~! ❤️

FIRST OF ALL, I just wanted to say HAPPY NEW YEARRRRRRR!!! I'm so happy that all of you are here with us and that we get to start the year off together ❤️ It has been one heck of a year and here's to an even

better one in 2024!!!! In honor of new years, this newsletters theme will be new years oriented so y'all can learn more about Korean language and culture surrounding the holidays~ Hope you enjoy!!!!

❤️ From. Sherly

01. Saying "Happy New Year" in Korean?!

This is a question that a few of you had so I'm happy to explain! The Korean way of saying Happy New Year isn't necessarily a direct translation so I think it would be good to break it down! ❤️

새해 복 많이 받으세요! (sae-hae bok man-he bad-eu-sae-yo)

Let's break it down!

새해: new year
복: luck
많이: alot, many
받으세요: recieve (formal way)

This phrase that we say during new years translates to, "recieve a lot of luck in this new year!" And it is what you would say in formal settings to say happy new year! The informal way of saying this would be: 새해 복 많이 받아 (saehae bok mani bada) ! So if you're saying it to your friends use this one~ ⭐

02. New Years Traditions in Korea 🍲

It's important to understand that of course we celebrate January 1st as the start of a new year but Lunar New Year or (설날) is more traditionally celebrated as the start of the new year and there are much more traditions associated with that holiday! ⭐

That being said tho, there is a tradition that Korean families will do during new years and that is: eating ricecake soup! or 떡국!!!

This tradition originates from the original Korean age system where everyone turns a year older on January 1st! Even though there is no official Korean age anymore, people still use it for the most part. Drinking/eating ricecake soup on January 1st symbolizes eating another year and turning a year older!

So if you want to celebrate new years like a Korean, try making this soup!

Recipe for the soup!

03. New Years Encouragement from us at TEUIDA❤️

We're so proud of you for putting in the effort to learn Korean/Japanese with us at TEUIDA! It is a new year and I'm sure a ton of you have your own personal learning goals (and the ones we set from before) so I just wanted to encourage you all and let you know that you are doing SO WELL!!!!! Starting is always the biggest step and the fact that you're here with us makes us so happy and proud of you! ⭐❤️😍

Let's learn a short encouraging Korean phrase: 할 수 있어(요)! this means "you can do it!" Just wanted to remind all of you that with TEUIDA and with your amazing efforts and big brains YOU CAN DO IT!!!

Let's do well this year, we got this :)

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