The 6 Days for Modern Koreans to Get Festive, Which Do Not Include the Independence Day

Click to enlarge the icons of New Year's Day, Lunar New Year's Day,
Valentine's Day, White Day, Mid Autumn Festival, and Christmas (clockwise).

These are probably what modern Korean people think the 6 most important days in a year : Jan. 1st (신정.New Year's Day), the Lunar New Year's Day (설날. Jan. 1st in the lunar calendar), Feb. 14th (발렌타인데이. Valentine's Day), Mar. 14th (stupid..oh no, they call it White Day, 화이트데이), Mid Autumn Festival (추석. August 15th in the lunar calendar), and Dec. 25th (크리스마스, Christmas). Special icons would pop up on these days and jump all over the place on my cell phone screen; for example, on both New Year's Days, a couple in traditional Korean costume would perform deep bow, a practice still observed nowadays, and on mid-autumn festival a jade-rabbit would jump all over the place pounding medicine. These icons are cute, and they also show the festival culture of modern Korean people.

現代韓國人眼中最重要的6個日子大概是新年、農曆新年、情人節、白色情人節、中秋節、以及聖誕節。在這些日子，我的手機螢幕會出現相關圖案，不停跳動、變換；例如新舊曆新年會出現身著傳統服裝的一對男女進行跪拜禮(在新年向長輩行跪拜禮的習俗至今依然存在，我今年就跪過許小臉整家長輩了XD)，情人節會出現各種巧克力或糖果，中秋節會出現玉兔搗藥，聖誕節就有聖誕老人送禮物給你。這些圖案不只可愛，還透露了現代韓國人的節慶文化。