On New Year's morning, people get up early.  They wear new clothes, already prepared for the whole family and they have ancestor-memorial rites. The people take food to the elders in their neighborhood and go on a New Year’s visit.  After their new year’s bow, the elders give good advice and some money.  For breakfast they eat rice dumpling soup and drink chilled rice wine for welcoming spring, and because it is said that this wine can prevent diseases. 
     On New Year’s Eve, a person comes to sell lucky bamboo strainers.  If a person buys this, he or she will have good luck for one whole year.  Early New Year's morning, people go out into the streets and listen to the Korean magpie, which brings a good year, but if you hear another bird it will bring a bad year. People believed that if you have a bad year, you have to help others to get a good year.  So they give poor people food or build a bridge where people need one.  On this day, people bite hard shelled nuts depending on their age. It is believed that if you do this, you don’t get boils. 
    On the day of the New Year’s first full moon, we have a strange custom.  People call their friend’s names.  This is for selling their summer heat.  And if you answer, you will buy that person’s heat. People also step on bridges that day.  This is because if you do this your legs will be healthy for the year.  When it is night, children play with fire wheels; this chases away evil spirits and welcomes spring.  Then the fire wheel is placed on the fields, this kills the eggs of pests and can make fertilizer. 
     The games that are played in New Years are the game of yut, teeter, and kite flying.  Yut is based on the five groups of livestock which are the dog, pig, sheep, cow, and horse. Teeter is like seesaw, and it is played by women and is a good chance for women to see the outdoors.  Outside the wall young men crowed to see the aristocratic women. 
     People fly kites with their misfortune written on it.  They believed that this will make all bad things fly away.