GREENSBORO — Korean Catholics in Greensboro recently celebrated Chuseok, the Korean version of Thanksgiving.
Literally translated as “autumn eve,” Chuseok is the Korean harvest festival that is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar on the full moon, which means it is usually held around the autumn equinox.
On Sept. 23, parishioners at St. Peter Yu Church brought traditional foods such as songpyeon (a stuffed rice cake) to be blessed before Mass. Besides celebrating the harvest and the turn of the season, Koreans traditionally visit their family’s graves and pray for the dead during Chuseok.
— Photos provided by St. Peter Yu Korean Church
