Delhi’s K-culture fans mark Chuseok with games, calligraphy and songpyeon

At the Korean Cultural Centre India, 17-year-old Anushka Pal wrote a wish in Hangeul calligraphy as part of a Chuseok activity linked to the full moon.

Delhi’s K-culture enthusiasts gathered for the Korean harvest festival through hands-on sessions on traditional games, food and dress. Visitors wrote wishes with brush pens or ink and hung up the sheets after the calligraphy session.

Participants also played jegichagi, in which players keep a shuttlecock-like object called a jegi in the air with their feet. Naina, 21, compared it with India’s chungi game. She also tried songpyeon, a Korean rice cake that she said resembled a gujiya and tasted like panjiri.

Some attendees wore hanbok, Korea’s traditional clothing, and played tuho by throwing arrows into a narrow-necked jar. Nandini Shael, 22, said she wore a hanbok to experience a traditional side of Korean culture beyond its popular music and dramas.