Traditions (Customs)

For the ceremony, they'll also bring out a lot of food and most presents given to the baby are envelopes of money. 

Here's a fun fact: in Korea, you don't necessarily have to be a year old in age at the time of this celebration. This is because Korea has something called Korean age and so when you are born, you are considered one year old and then you gain one year every new year. So you could be one or two years older than your current age in Korea. Pretty cool, right?

Moving on to the last subject: palaces. Korea is home to a lot of history and to display the history, they have museums within traditional palaces. The palaces were once home to royal families and noblemen. On the site, they have lakes where princes once fished, libraries where noblemen once studied and thrones where kings once sat. I actually had the pleasure of visiting a palace near my dorm and was amazed by the scenery. I saw an entire grade of students dressed in hanboks, a secret garden and many traditional locations where history once took place. 

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