{"id":62,"date":"2009-02-01T03:57:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T07:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/?p=62"},"modified":"2009-02-01T03:57:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T07:57:35","slug":"musumnal-%eb%a8%b8%ec%8a%b4%eb%82%a0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/musumnal-%eb%a8%b8%ec%8a%b4%eb%82%a0\/","title":{"rendered":"Musumnal (\uba38\uc2b4\ub0a0)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musumnal (<strong>\uba38\uc2b4\ub0a0<\/strong>) is a quaint, rural festival celebrated the first of every February.\u00a0 Musum (<strong>\uba38\uc2b4<\/strong>) means servant or farm hand, while nal (<strong>\ub0a0<\/strong>) means day.\u00a0 Altogether musumnal (<strong>\uba38\uc2b4\ub0a0<\/strong>) means the &#8216;festival of servants.&#8217;\u00a0 This festival is celebrated on Jeju Island (<strong>\uc81c\uc8fc<\/strong>).\u00a0 On this day a shamanistic rite called yungdunggui (<strong>\uc601\ub4f1\uad6c\uc774<\/strong>) is performed.\u00a0 The rite is named after a fairy tale sea goddess named Yungdungsin (<strong>\uc601\ub4f1\uc2e0<\/strong>).\u00a0 A shaman will perform a dance in an effort to ensure an abundance of fish and to pray for the safe return of the fisherman at sea.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, on the same day, a rite called muhongut (<strong>\ubb34\ud63c\uad7f<\/strong>) is performed.\u00a0 Not to creep anyone out, muhongut (<strong>\ubb34\ud63c\uad7f<\/strong>) is a rite to guide the spirits of the dead safely to the afterlife.\u00a0 This rite is specifically held for those who have drowned at sea.\u00a0 Countless people have died on the shores of Jeju Island (<strong>\uc81c\uc8fc\ub3c4<\/strong>).\u00a0 Sometimes the bodies are retrievable and sometimes they are lost at sea.\u00a0 In order to appease the anguished souls who have died without a proper burial, the shamans pray for the deceased person&#8217;s spirit to go to the afterlife in peace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On this day, people will also dress in traditional Korean clothes.\u00a0 The clothes are white and made of cotton.\u00a0 In the old days, only the nobles could wear brightly colored clothes.\u00a0 Servants and people of the lower class were required to wear plain white clothes.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll see a parade of people walking in white clothes to commemorate the people of the lower classes; who were often laborers, farmers and fishermen.\u00a0 Many of the people of Jeju Island (<strong>\uc81c\uc8fc\ub3c4<\/strong>) have ancestors who were of the working classes, and so musumnal (<strong>\uba38\uc2b4\ub0a0<\/strong>) is a day to pay respect to all the toil and hard work of the working class.<\/p>\n<p>On that note, I just want to thank everyone for reading my posts and keeping up with this blog despite all the busy things you have to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musumnal (\uba38\uc2b4\ub0a0) is a quaint, rural festival celebrated the first of every February.\u00a0 Musum (\uba38\uc2b4) means servant or farm hand, while nal (\ub0a0) means day.\u00a0 Altogether musumnal (\uba38\uc2b4\ub0a0) means the &#8216;festival of servants.&#8217;\u00a0 This festival is celebrated on Jeju Island (\uc81c\uc8fc).\u00a0 On this day a shamanistic rite called yungdunggui (\uc601\ub4f1\uad6c\uc774) is performed.\u00a0 The rite is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/musumnal-%eb%a8%b8%ec%8a%b4%eb%82%a0\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1065],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-festival"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}