In Korea, there is a big festive day called Seol which is New year. As other fesive days in other countries, also Koreans gather with their families, eat special foods of Seol, play Korean traditional games.

 I’ll introduce one of the famous traditional game which has been played by many people in Seol since long time ago. It is Korean board game called “Yut-Nori”. This is a Korean board game and has been played by many people.

 First of all, you have to prepare some things to play this game. The first thing is the game board.

 You can do the game with drawn game board. But you should draw as the same way of this game board ↑, and also you need Mal that represent your place in the game board. Things like button is great.

 Star the game at the place where the tiger picture is, and if you reach at place of big circle, you can use short way to reach the end of the board.

 Second, you need to prepare Yut.

 These are Yut. Yut is 4 sticks that made up of wood. It has front and back, and the front is little bit round and some pictures are in the front. In the back it is flat and nothing is written in the back. If you don’t have Yut, you can do it with some sticks that showing front and back. You SHOULD know if it is front or back. 

Now, let’s start the GAME!

You have to throw your Yut toghether. Put toghether and throw it.

Then, the Yut will be placed on the floor. It will be all different, and it can be good or bad. It is your fortune.

 This picture is showing “Do” which means go one fowrad. It is the ONE in the dice. Only one yut is facing backward and the others are forwarding upward.

This is “Gae” and it means go forward two steps. It is same meaning as TWO in dice. Two of  Yut is facing back and the other Yuts are facing forward.

 This is “Gul” and it means go forward three steps and it mens THREE in the dice. Only one of the Yut is facing front and the othere Yuts are facing back.

 This is “Yut” and all of yuts are facing backward. It means go 4 steps. It is same as 4 in the dice. If you throw and have “Yut”, you have one more chance to throw them.

 Finally, this is “Mo” and if you have “Mo, you can go 5 steps on the game board. All of the yuts are facing front. Also, if you have “Mo”, you have one more chance to throw the yuts.

Did you learned a lot about our traditional game? I learned about this game when I was in elelmentary school and I had a lot of fun playing this game with my family. It is really great, and I personally recommend you to try it!