Chusok / Korean Thanksgiving

There must be others in Korea blogging about this now. A little note: I can't say that every sentence I write here is going to be original, but I'll write original posts when I can. Chusok must be on everyone's minds now. It falls this year mid-week which means three official holidays, Tues - Thurs, Sept 21 - 23. Some working Koreans are going to get an extra day that week which would be Monday or Friday and will therefore have a six-day break instead of three. Big difference. Many will have only the three days. People who are government workers or bank employees will have just three days. Those offices must be open on all non-holidays of course. One schoolteacher friend will get the six days having Friday off. I'm not sure but I guess a lot of schools will do this. For those who have just three days it may be a challenge. Many Koreans leave home and drive across the country to spend the holiday with their families. Some lucky ones go a short distance. I've heard it can take ten hours to cross the country at that time when normally it's around four.

I'm really looking forward to and already counting down to this year's Chusok. Also I've been wanting to buy a new camera for some time and would like to do so at the start of this holiday so that I can record visits with my friends or any special Chusok events. Hopefully this will work out and I'll put some photos up here. I plan to get in touch with all my friends to ask them how they'll spend the holiday. Hopefully I can meet up with a lot of them.

Already shops are selling gift sets for this holiday. Some have traditional Korean wine which I think would make a good gift. Others have spam! Once I saw a 'spam set' which was nine little tins of spam arranged three by three, but unfortunately had no camera on me. If I see one this year I'm going to get a pic.

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