Happy New Year again. My parents are visiting us for couple weeks from San Francisco. Great to see them spend some quality time with the kids. These are some images from our family’s New Year’s celebration – Korean style. Enjoy them this week as I’ll remove some of the pics soon. FYI, we celebrate New Year’s again [Solleol or Lunar New Year] on February 7 this year.
Every Korean family enjoys Duk-Kuk for breakfast on New Year’s Day. Minhee and my mother spent the night before making homemade “mahn doo” [wonton] to make some incredible “duk mahn doo kuk.”
We all dressed in our traditional Korean hanboks to pay our respects to our parents. We all bowed to them and received words of wisdom and some gifts. Then our children bowed to us and Minhee and I gave words of encouragement to each of our children. It was emotional.
In the evening, we played a scintillating traditional Korean game called “Yuht.” Here’s a picture of my son using his special mind tricks to control the sticks. Shalom. Happy New Year.
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You look like some Korean mafia dude in that picture.
nice family..happy new year…
se hae bok manee pade sae yo!
yo man. it looks like those yut pieces materialized supernaturally out of your son’s hand! did he get moh yut?
i played yuht too! it’s the nasty version of Sorry
Pastor Eugene,
I have enjoyed your articles and views enormously this past year. It’s truly refreshing to see a man of God walk the walk. I hope Quest branches out to Orange County, CA. I look forward to the New Year and the challenges that God will bring us. My prayer to you, family and ministry.
God Bless
Pastor Cho,
Thanks for sharing these great pics and reflections. As an Idahoan now living in South Korea I have a context for the photos and the things you shared. It is great to see the way you are retaining cultural traditions within your lives as Christians in a different country. The Duk-Kuk looks good…we had some the other day as well.
Thanks for you ministry through this blog. Happy New Year.
peter: thanks for the kind words. i’m – like many – stumbling along this journey of faith.
ryan: where are you in korea? sae hae bok mahnee bah dew sae yo.
We had duk ook, too, and my wife explained to my kids that all around the world Koreans were eating this with us. It was my 4 year old’s first time, and he said “It looks so icky but it smells so good!” and when he finally tried it, he was won over.
Hi,
I have a 13 yr old Korean exchange student staying with us till the end of February. I would very much like to acknowledge the Lunar New Year on her behalf. We are a hispanic family and I don’t kow any one who is Korean. Do you have any key ideas on how we could celebrate this time with her?
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