Chuseok Korean Harvest Festival Moon

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Korean Harvest Festival is the "Korean Thanksgiving Day" (추석)

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(KOREA NOW) Watch this video at koreanow.com. Chuseok (추석) is the Korean version of "Thanksgiving," the time to eat a lot of songpyeon, and practice a little seon (zen, chan, dhyana, jhana) or meditation. This Harvest Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 9th month according to the lunar calendar. The exact day changes each year, but it typically falls on September or October. In 2021 it was on Sept. 21st. Korea enjoys a three-day holiday to be with family and friends making "song pong" dumpling cakes with all kinds of stuffing and eating them until sleepiness sets in.

Los Angeles celebrates Chuseok

(WQ) Look up over Korea Town, Los Angeles (near DTLA), beyond the neon signs of all the restaurants and the glaring headlights of all the traffic, and there's the Hollywood sign. Turn east and it's all the lights from The Miracle Mile (Wilshire Blvd.) Look around, and it's the bling of the beauties blaring Far East Movement in their BMWs and Mercedes.

Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan should make a buddy movie, running through K-Town, you know, to save on travel expenses for their next Hollywood blockbuster. Neighboring Hollywood is literally walking distance from K-Town, where the big studios meet the grimy streets of "This Can't Be Hollywood." What did you expect? I'dunno, something clean, a little glamorous, not smog, homeless bums, vagrant encampments, skanky prostitutes, and all this traffic.

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