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한가위

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한가위
Part of speech
noun
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Hangawi

A traditional Korean holiday; it falls on August 15th by the lunar calendar; on this day, people prepare special foods like songpyeon, half-moon-shaped rice cakes, and newly harvested fruits, and hold a memorial service for their ancestors; they also enjoy a variety of folk plays such as ssireum, a traditional wrestling, juldarigi, tug-of-war, and ganggangsullae, a traditional circle dance.