Korean New Year Traditions, slang + motivation ?! 😄🌷

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2023. 1. 13.

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Korean Traditions
New Year Motivation and Community Challenge
Korean Slang!

❤️ Hello Everyone~! ❤️

Hope everyone is doing well and learning lots of Korean. This week, I’m back with another newsletter kind of related to new years 😎 What can I say, there’s just so much to talk about. Some of you guys asked about Korean traditions so I thought I’d explain some new year’s traditions along with some motivations for this year!!!

There will also be a slang lesson at the end of the newsletter so stay tuned y’all! 😘

1. 세뱃돈 (Se-bet-don) 🤑

Okay so this is definitely a tradition that other countries have as well, but during Lunar New Year in Korea kids or younger generations get allowance money from their elders. In other cultures such as Chinese culture they have the red envelope but in Korea we don’t really have any specific color associated with the tradition!

However, we do have envelopes sold in stores which are specifically made for money! Take a look at this picture below :)

2. 세배 (Se-beh) 🙇‍♂️

Now this is important because it is the way that you get the allowance money we just talked about. On New Years, younger people will bow to their elders usually wearing Hanbok and they say “새해 복 많이 받으세요 (Sae-hae bok man-i bad-eu-se-yo)”

Do you guys remember what this means?! We talked about it two weeks ago~

If you guessed happy new year then you are right hehe ❤️ After this, the elders will usually give some words of blessing for the new year and also give allowance to the younger ones!

3. 윷놀이 Yut-nori / 화투 Hwa-tu 🎲

This is one of the most fun traditions of new years (in my opinion)! It’s the games~ As for these games, they aren’t only played on new year but also during Chuseok which is the harvest festival. So, remember that these are not only associated with the new year!

The first game, Yut-nori is a traditional board game for all ages! The second one is called Hwa-tu and it is a fishing card game. It sounds a little funny but it is super fun and can even get a little heated. Watch the videos below to learn more about these games!

Now for some motivation! A lot of you said that you wanted this newsletter to be more motivational for the new year so I just wanted to give you guys some advice for learning Korean this year!! ❤️❤️❤️

1. Find a community or a couple of friends who want to learn Korean as well. Having people around you with similar interests is super important when you want to get motivated. If you’d like to join our Discord server to meet other Korean learners, do so through the link on our instagram :)

2. Second, focus on only a couple of resources. It’s human nature to want to do anything and everything but I assure you that you will get burnt out and tired from that. Pick a couple of good resources ex. TTMIK and Teuida and focus your attention and master those :) Having too much on your plate will just make you overwhelmed!

3. Lastly, and MOST importantly, have fun with what you’re doing! This is one of the reasons why Teuida makes our content fun while also being educational but people learn better when they are entertained! This is a fact! Make sure you’re having fun and not just trying to be a memorizing robot lol you got this!!!!

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Teuida New Year’s Daily Post Challenge!

Teuida is going to help you get motivated to learn Korean this 2023. For those who learn with us everyday, you can even win some prizes and rewards:)

Event period: 2023/01/16~2023/01/29

Rules:
1. Comment to show your participation on our daily community posts.
(you get 14 chances)
2. We will pick ten people to get one day of premium each day.
(total of 140 days)
3. For the three users that participate the longest,
we will send you guys some Korean goodies:)))

Hope you are all able to participate and join us this year!! 💗💗💗💗💗

3. 중꺾마 (Joong-Ggeokk-Ma)

The slang i’d like to teach you today is 중꺾마 which stands for “중요한 것은 꺾이지 않는 마음” This is a little advanced but let me try to break it down for you guys!

❤️ “중요한 것은 ” (Joong-yo-han-geo-seun) means “What’s important is...”
❤️ “꺾이지 않는” (Ggeokk-e-ji ahn-nun) means unbreakable or not swayed
❤️ “마음” (ma-eum) means heart!

Take the first character of each statement and you get 중꺾마 which translates to

“what's important is the unbroken heart” and means “Don’t lose heart!” This became popular from the world cup since Korea went up to the round 16 and unfortunately fell short to Brazil :( But it became popularized and now people say it a lot to encourage others or themselves!

Last but not least!!! Don't forget to check out this new short video that Yeji made to teach you the vowels in Korean :) Show her some support guys ❤️

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