On the occasion of ‘Seol Nal’, New Year’s Day by lunar calendar, the KLI provided its students a chance to experience various Korean traditional cultural things by tasting Korean rice-cakes (Ddeok), and let them keep the meaning of it. We provided more than one thousand pieces of Korean cakes to the around 900 students of regular program including other students and instructors on the morning of February 16th, New Year’s Eve. The instructors talked the meaning of sharing the ‘Jeolpyeon’ (square type rice cake), and ‘Gyeongdan’ (rice-cake dumping covered with bean paste) with others and introduced the unique Korean traditional New Year to the students on the occasion of ‘Seol Nal’.
On the other hand, the students in Level 5 of regular program participated to experience making various types and colors of Korean traditional masks just before the ‘Seol Nal’ that would have helped them understand the Korean traditional culture. Those masks are under exhibition in the lobby.
In the ‘Cooking Studio’ that has just opened in this semester, the students could taste the Korean BBQ by cooking themselves that could also have them experience the Korean foods and tradition as well. The students were delighted to use the Korean expression in the living that they have learned it by books only. Especially, it added the meaning to cook foods by themselves before having ‘Seol Nal’.