First, I’d like to say to everybody who celebrate Korean Lunar New Year “Saehae bok mani badeuseyo … ” I hope it’s not too late to send the greeting and to share how Korean New Year celebrated in my country.
Last year’s Seollal Celebration at the Korean Cultural Centre Indonesia (KCCI, 2014)
But some people, especially young people Korea lovers in Jakarta, celebrated Seollal by participating in Seollal special event held by Korean Culture Centre (KCC) Indonesia.
Korean Culture Centre Indonesia’s Seollal Celebrations
Different with last year Seollal celebration in which KCCI invited about a hundred guests-most of them area Korea lovers-and made a small party. On that occasion, KCCI explained how Korean usually celebrate Seollal from the tradition of observed activity “Sebae” , traditional Korean food that is customarily eaten for Seollal “tteokguk” and some folk games which are associated with Seollal.
Seollal 2015 in KCCI
According to KCCI Public Relation Officer Kimberly Dewi Febrianti said on Hanbok Experience Contest, KCCI gave special privilege for the first 30 participant to try on King and Queen Hanbok and KCCI new hanbok collection. “More than 200 people participated in Hanbok Experience Contest,” Kimberly said.
On Tteokguk Contest, KCCI gave the participant the rice cake and a recipe to make tteokguk soup, and then they record how they make tteokguk in a video or photos. After that, they uploaded the video or photos in their SNS and is linked to KCCI’s SNS. This method also applies to Hanbok Experience Contest for judging and assessment by KCCI.
“By organizing these contest, KCCI want to introduce Korean Lunar New Year’s Day which is almost the same as Chinese New Year or Imlek, it’s only one day ahead, to Indonesian,” Kimberly said.
“And we also want to introduce many kind of Korean traditional cultures, besides K-pop,” Kimberly added.
Bibap Performance
At the same day of Chinese and Korea New Year’s Day, Lotte Shopping Avenue, a big mall in Jakarta also presented Bibap special performance from Korea. It consists of 8 actors featuring non-verbal comedy performance combined with beat-box music, accapella, dance, acrobat and martial arts.
“With this Bibap performance we eager to give special offers and special amusement to our customer in our shopping program with maximum benefit,” Senior Marketing Manager Lotte Shopping Avenue Anastasia Damastuti said.
With the increasing number of Korea events, I think there will be more and more people in my country familiar with Korea traditional cultures and Korea modern-art performances. Hallyu is still out there.
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