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Are you having a relaxing Lunar New Year holiday?
Today was a warm New Year’s Day where everyone gathered together for the first time in three years to eat rice cake soup and serve three meals a day.
There are many returnees, but there are also many who made their way home early.
It is said that the highway is more clogged than yesterday.
Reporters Yoo Seo-young and Ryu Hyeon-jun continue to deliver the New Year’s Day scenery of the Korean Peninsula seen from the sky and the current road conditions.
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A park cemetery where the snow hasn’t melted yet.
Even in sub-zero temperatures, many people came to visit their families who had left them first.
Carefully take out an armful of food, set a neat table for ancestral rites, and bow down together.
Even in the charnel house next door, they prepare simple food, stroke their hands, and miss the deceased.
At a family-owned house in Daegu, laughter burst out at the third generation of great-grandchildren.
“Right, right…”
For the first time in a long time, the four generations ate rice cake soup together with ‘bare faces’ without masks and exchanged good wishes.
“Health is the best…healthy…”
[최진돈/경주 최씨 광정공파 14대 종손]
“In the meantime, everyone told me not to come. Only a few people living in the neighborhood stayed (together), but… (Now that I can see them all), it’s good. Originally, I have to see my relatives often.”
As the corona crisis subsided, an event to share rice cake soup was held once more in the palace for the first time in three years.
[황정빈·김태희/서울 종로구]
“I stood in line on purpose, so I hurriedly stood in line to eat because I was afraid that (the waiting line) would be cut quickly.”
It is also possible to see the performances of folk performances and experience traditional games such as Yutnori.
[전영철/광주광역시]
“Last year, like everywhere else, I spent only at home, but this year I came to Seoul with a comfortable mind because I wanted to show these guys something different.”
In Jeju Island, the verdict of innocence was read in front of the father’s mortuary tablet.
[김명현/4.3 수형인 아들]
“As a victim of the Jeju 4.3 Incident, I am acquitted according to Article 325 of the Criminal Procedure Act.”
My father, who went missing following being imprisoned in Daejeon Prison due to the Jeju 4.3 Incident.
Innocence was confirmed only in November of last year following more than 70 years, and now the family can comfortably enjoy a drink.
[김명현/4.3 수형인 아들]
“I’m glad that the limit has been lifted… I hoped that Sowon would be acquitted and found innocent…”
Citizens lined up to visit the Blue House on the occasion of the holiday, and tourists dressed in hanbok were crowded at the palace.
National highways, which had nearly 1 million more vehicles than yesterday, continued to be congested all day today.
This is Yoo Seo-young from MBC News.
Video coverage: Han Jae-hoon, Kim Jong-jun (Daegu), Son Se-ho (Jeju) / Aerial photography: Min Byeong-ho, Kim Kang-young / Video editing: Jo A-ra
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