Chuseok Festival 2022

Chuseok Korean Harvest Festival | Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, 12 pm - 4:30 pm

Held on Webster University’s Campus – Community Music School

Location: 535 Garden Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63119-3141
Date – 9/17/22
Admission- FREE

Partial funding graciously provided by the Korea Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Masks are highly encouraged indoors while not eating and drinking at this event.
Free Parking in the parking garage

Enjoy traditional Korean performing arts featuring The Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago and other local groups. Participate in Korean calligraphy demonstrations, while learning the Korean alphabet and making Korean crafts. Visitors can also enjoy traditional games, a martial art demonstration, K-pop dance performance, sample delicious foods, and try on traditional Korean clothing called Hanboks.

FOOD

GFK is excited to announce that Buzz’s Hawaiian Grill will be providing a special Korean themed meal.

• Bulgogi Taco with Kimchi

• Fish tacos

• poke

• Fried rice

• Kimchi fried rice

Program

KOREAN LIFESTYLE DEMONSTRATION VISUAL ART

(12:00– 4:00 PM)

• Food Truck (11:30 am -2:30 pm Parking lot)

• Food Demonstration/Samples (Lobby)

• Korean Alphabet & Calligraphy (Lower level)

• Korean Crafts (Lower level)

• Face Painting (Lower level)

• Traditional Games (Lower level)

• Traditional Clothing Hanbok Experience (Lobby)

• K-Pop Station (Lower level)

PERFORMING ARTS (12:30 – 4:30 PM)

• 12:30 pm Welcome – Liz Lenivy GKF Officer Dr. Seungkwon You, GKF Chairperson

• 12:40 pm St. Louis Youth Ambassadors Orchestra

• 1:10 pm Introduction by Dr. Seungkwon You, GKF Chairperson

  Special Guest

• 1:20 pm Visiting Korean College Students – Singing Performance

• 1:40 pm Break

• 2:00 pm Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago

  Sangmo Pankut

  Bamboo Flute Solo

  Hallyangmu

  Gayageum Ensemble by Youth members

  Banghwang

• 2:30 pm Washington University Samulnori & Standing Drums

• 3:00 pm Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago – Repeat Performance

• 3:30 pm Taekwondo Demonstration by Y.S. Rho

• 4:00 pm K-Pop Dance Performance by K:ODE

• 4:20 pm Closing Remarks

Performing Arts

Korean Arts & Crafts

Korean lantern – color a Korean traditional pattern and make Hanji paper flowers to decorate a glass jar lantern

Korean tassel (Norigae) – use paper folding technique (Jong-i-jeobgi) to create a traditional Korean ornamental tassel traditionally worn on a woman’s hanbok

Korean letter bracelet – make a bracelet using a simple traditional Korean knot and hangul letter beads.

Traditional Games

Make & Play Ddakji (Folded Paper Tile Game, as featured in Squid Games)

• Make & Play Paengi-I (Spinning Top decorated with traditional patterns)

• Yut Nori

• Jaggi-Chagi

• Gong-Gi

Traditional Clothing – Hanbok Experience

Korean Alphabet & Calligraphy

Korean Traditional & Fusion Food

In addition to Buzz Hawaiian truck, we will be having a food demo on making Kimbap in the lobby with some samples provided.

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WHAT IS CHUSEOK?

Chuseok, which is held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, consists of thanksgiving services in which newly harvested crops and fruits are offered to the ancestral spirits. Generally held to be as important as the Lunar New Year’s Day, Chuseok is when family members gather together and hold a ritual with newly harvested crops and fruits to give thanks to their ancestors and to nature. As it falls in the harvest season, a time of abundance, Chuseok even comes with a saying: “Not more, not less. Just be like Hangawi,” Hangawi being another name for Chuseok.

Chuseok and Songpyeon - During the mid-autumn holiday of Chuseok (15th day of the 8th lunar month), families gather together and make songpyeon (half-moon shaped rice cakes).