Seollal

Happy Seollal!

By: Gem Yelin Lee, Copy Editor It’s January 21, and I come home to my mother on her eighth consecutive hour in the kitchen, preparing ingredients and cooking time-consuming dishes. The apartment is cold from windows being left open to air out the cooking smells, and the burners are hot from a tireless onslaught of 전 (jeon) being made in heaping batches. My father is somewhere simultaneously helping tidy the apartment and obsessively rummaging through old bins, looking for Korean folk games. This is a scene that only happens once a year: during 설날 or Seollal, the Korean celebration of…

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