I am sitting in the middle of a Korean event for Chuseok in the neighborhood apartment complex. It started at 2 and still running until 9 at night.
There was a dumpling-making event where mostly old people joined in. They were making the seompyeon pretty fast and I cannot almost keep up with them in filling their well-shaped rice dough. I totally gave up making my own shapes since they weren't as pretty and quickly-formed as most of the old ladies'. I resigned myself to the job of spooning in the sesame+sugar filling for them instead.
There was this grandmother who made a bit bigger seompyeon and I had to spoon out the filling twice the amount more than what the others made.
I also notice that some made theirs quite differently only to find out that they came from another province. That is quite interesting coz one can probably guess where they're from through the style of shaping their seompyeon.
A few younger kids also joined in after school let out later in the afternoon. They tried to make some but they are obviously inexperienced compared to the grandmothers.
It seems like the tedious job of making these Chuseok rice cake can be a fun event if shared with other people. The grandmothers even sang and dance along with some live entertainment while they were making the seompyeons. I even got bumped a few times while a grandmother was dancing but of course, all I can do is try to avoid her. :D She sure had fun, eh?
They all got some rest after and sat down to watch the show. There were guitar acts, duets and mid-age girl group, young and adult traditional drummers, a choir, and even jump ropers.
There was also a singing contest open to all---that means-- for all ages with a limit of two minutes for each of the almost two dozens of candidates. The youngest was a 4th-grader girl who sang an English song, and oldest would probably be the grandmother who had a bit of hard time scaling up the stair without any hand bar but she sang pretty well. The singing range varied from not-so-good to quite good ones.
A few that stood out from my memory, aside from the one I already mentioned, was a gentleman who did look like a man (he even came with his son on stage) but sounded like a woman's voice the minute he started singing. He quite good, if not the best, though. He sang his a little upbeat song like a pro and everybody seemed to have a good time. If it wasn't a contest with a time limit, we would have enjoyed another song from him.
It is pretty interesting how they had the stage set up from a big truck that comes with stage light, and a screen projector. This basically served as the stage wall, with the stage itself enough to hold more than a dozen people.
There was a dumpling-making event where mostly old people joined in. They were making the seompyeon pretty fast and I cannot almost keep up with them in filling their well-shaped rice dough. I totally gave up making my own shapes since they weren't as pretty and quickly-formed as most of the old ladies'. I resigned myself to the job of spooning in the sesame+sugar filling for them instead.
There was this grandmother who made a bit bigger seompyeon and I had to spoon out the filling twice the amount more than what the others made.
I also notice that some made theirs quite differently only to find out that they came from another province. That is quite interesting coz one can probably guess where they're from through the style of shaping their seompyeon.
A few younger kids also joined in after school let out later in the afternoon. They tried to make some but they are obviously inexperienced compared to the grandmothers.
It seems like the tedious job of making these Chuseok rice cake can be a fun event if shared with other people. The grandmothers even sang and dance along with some live entertainment while they were making the seompyeons. I even got bumped a few times while a grandmother was dancing but of course, all I can do is try to avoid her. :D She sure had fun, eh?
They all got some rest after and sat down to watch the show. There were guitar acts, duets and mid-age girl group, young and adult traditional drummers, a choir, and even jump ropers.
There was also a singing contest open to all---that means-- for all ages with a limit of two minutes for each of the almost two dozens of candidates. The youngest was a 4th-grader girl who sang an English song, and oldest would probably be the grandmother who had a bit of hard time scaling up the stair without any hand bar but she sang pretty well. The singing range varied from not-so-good to quite good ones.
A few that stood out from my memory, aside from the one I already mentioned, was a gentleman who did look like a man (he even came with his son on stage) but sounded like a woman's voice the minute he started singing. He quite good, if not the best, though. He sang his a little upbeat song like a pro and everybody seemed to have a good time. If it wasn't a contest with a time limit, we would have enjoyed another song from him.
It is pretty interesting how they had the stage set up from a big truck that comes with stage light, and a screen projector. This basically served as the stage wall, with the stage itself enough to hold more than a dozen people.
It wasn't such a bad traditional event after all. The crowd was just enough. But the Kpop style sound was a bit too much for me at the end. I actually prefer the well-choreographed choir of the city singing songs form my all-time-favorite movie, the Sound of Music. It was quite long and tiring but fun for a first-timer like me nonetheless.
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