Hwaseong City Holds Lunar New Year Folk Festival

On the occasion of the Lunar New Year's Day, folk festivals including safety prayer ceremonies and moon-house burning events were held in various locations throughout Hwaseong City to wish for peace and prosperity in the community.

On the 4th, the 4th Hwasan-dong Lunar New Year's Day Safety Prayer Ceremony was held at the Hwaseong-dong Residential Center grounds, hosted by the Hwasan-dong Social Organizations Council and organized by the Residents' Autonomy Committee.

Various folk games were held including seesaw jumping, jegi (Korean badminton), tuho (arrow toss game), and kite flying. The events concluded with a safety prayer ceremony for the year's wishes and a moon-house burning event to ward off bad luck.

Additionally, the 3rd Namyang-dong Lunar New Year's Day Folk Festival, hosted by the Namyang-dong Residents' Autonomy Committee and organized by the Namyang-dong Agricultural Management Association and Life Improvement Association, was held grandly in the Namyang-dong area on the 5th with approximately 2,000 citizens in attendance.

Citizens who participated in the festival with their children experienced folk games such as yut (traditional Korean game), top spinning, jegi, and kite flying, while family members wrote wishes for health on cards that were burned together with the moon-house. The festival concluded with residents dancing ganggangsullae (traditional Korean circle dance) around the moon-house.