Today, special foods are cooked on this day. The celebration begins with a family get together at which crescent-shaped rice cakes called Songpyon are served. These are stuffed with beans, sesame seeds, chestnuts or dates, and steamed upon pine needles. Other special foods made from freshly harvested grain and fruit are also prepared and served.

The family then pays its respects to its ancestors, by visiting their tombs, cleaning and clearing the area around the tombs, and offering them food, drink and crops in ritual worship. Men, women and children dress in traditional Korean clothes. Traditional dances are performed and many traditional games are played - though these vary from region to region.

Chusok dates according to the Gregorian calendar are as follows:

2008 - September 14
2009 - October 3       
2010 - September 22
2011 - September 12
2012 - September 30
2013 - September 19
2014 - September 8
2015 - September 27
2016 - September 15
2017 - October 4       
2018 - September 24

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