Sundays at the Asian Art Museum
Chuseok Festival
Celebrate the Korean festival of Chuseok with food tastings, dance performances, and family storytelling of Korean folktales.
Chuseok, or “autumn eve,” is the annual Korean three-day festival celebrating the end of summer and the autumn harvest. Chuseok is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month on the lunar calendar. Traditional elements of Chuseok include paying respect to familial ancestors by visiting their graves (seongmyo), tidying the gravesites (beolcho), and bringing families together to prepare and present food and offerings to ancestors (charye).
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