Korean food like miyeok-guk, rice cakes and fruits are shared with as many relatives, friends and neighbours as possible since it is believed that the blessings increase with the number of people sharing the food. Therefore, the people will share the rice cakes with as many relatives, friends and neighbours as possible.ĭol is the baby’s first birthday (i.e., first year after birth) and is celebrated by a big feast or party called Doljanchi (돌잔치). There is a belief that if the rice cakes are shared with 100 people, the baby will have a long and healthy life. If the baby is in good health on the first 100th day, the family will celebrate by having parties with their close family members and friends, and Korean food like miyeok-guk, rice cakes and wines are consumed at the parties. This tradition is still kept among a lot of Koreans. However, if the baby was sick on the 100th day, that day would pass without celebration since it was believed that celebration would bring bad luck to the baby in such case. So, people celebrated when their babies survived the first 100th day after birth. In the past, when medical science was not that advanced, the infant mortality rate was pretty high. There are some important birthdays on which Koreans like to celebrate with big feasts or parties, for example, the 100th-day celebration, the first birthday, the 60th, 70th and 80th birthdays. Therefore, on someone’s birthday, the Koreans usually greet that person by asking “Have you had miyeok-guk?” In the Korean dramas, you can also see people cooking the miyeok-guk for their family members or friends who are having birthdays. Eating miyeok-guk on birthdays is a reminder of the mother’s pain of child-birth and an appreciation of the care given by the mother. In the past, after giving birth to the baby, the mother ate the miyeok-guk for about 1 month because it was thought that seaweed, being rich in iodine and calcium, was good for uterine contraction and milk production.
While nowadays Koreans are influenced by the western culture and have birthday cakes on their birthdays with their families and friends, there is a deeply-rooted tradition which is still kept among the Koreans – eating the miyeok-guk (미역국- seaweed soup) on their birthdays. If you like Song Joong-ki, the main male actor in the hit Korean drama “Descendants of the Sun”, or handsome guys, you should not miss this video in which the handsome Song Joong-ki brings you a birthday cake, sings the birthday song for you and says “I love you” to you at the end of the video – it’s so sweet!
Happy birthday song in korean how to#
Please watch this video to learn how to sing the Korean version of the birthday song and the different ways of saying “happy birthday” in Korean. There are also other formal and informal versions of saying “Happy Birthday”. In Korean, “happy birthday” is “생일 축하합니다 (saengil chukha hamnida)” – this is the formal version. The Koreans do have some special food to eat on their birthdays and there are several important birthdays on which bigger celebration parties are held. First of all, happy birthday to all having birthdays today. I would like to talk about the Korean-style birthday celebrations in this blog post.
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