추석 (Chuseok) Festival 2012

Hi everyone! This past weekend was 추석 in Korea which is what people like to call “Korean thanksgiving!“ At this time, most people head out of Seoul and go to their families ancestral land and do a number of rites and spend time with the rest of the family. For foreigners in Seoul with a Korea family to go visit, it can be a weird time! The streets and subways are oddly empty (I was able to sit down on line 2...) and many restaurants and stores are closed (nearly all of them on actual Chuseok day). It is a