Why is it so difficult to go to hometown during holidays (Chuseok, Lunar New Year)? > Culture & Customs

Korean people head to their hometown for the holidays ‘National Migration’There are several main reasons why this happens!

• ✨ 1. A sincere offering to ancestors (chart): Korea traditionally holds ancestral rites for ancestors on holidays. I think it is a very important courtesy to express gratitude with food prepared with care and to share that sincerity with the family. 🙏
• ✨ 2. Meeting with scattered families: These days, everyone lives in big cities like Seoul, right? I make sure to see my parents and relatives who I don't see often because I'm busy during the holidays and eat delicious food to relieve my worries! 🍲💖
• ✨ 3. The warm feeling of ‘togetherness’: In Korean culture, 'affection'. The time we all gather together to make songpyeon or eat rice cake soup and talk about various things is a time of great healing and energy for us! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Of course Huge traffic jam It's true that we have a hard time because of this... 😭 Sometimes the highways are congested and you have to stay in the car for hours. Still, the reason people are willing to endure this hardship is because they see their parents' faces when they arrive in their hometown. "Welcome, thank you for your hard work"Because the moment you hear one warm word, all that fatigue disappears! 🥰