The traditional culture is fading away in a great speed due to the leading society. Both China and South Korea has a lunar calendar to follow a national holiday, and both don’t have much difference in the orthography. But in they looked at both Mongolian culture and South Korean culture in different seasons and concluded the difference between two cultures as following. So let’s have a look at the special features of seasonal culture in Korea. Firstly, Korea holds s special festival that is based on agriculture since ancient times. They pray for a rich year and abundance in harvesting. For example, the first full moon of the year in the spring and harvest moon festival in the autumn. Secondly, South Korea has very specific seasons so therefore they have a different festivals that fits the weather of the season. The special festivals in Mongol are; Firstly, since ancient times, Mongolians had played an archery and horse riding as they are nomads. They also have very unique traditional foods like lamb meat and dairy products because of their nature in life style. Secondly, as I mentioned before they are nomads who move around so therefore they have their own unique cultures. For examples, a tradition called ‘Nadam’ in summer. When this festival is on all the people who were separated over the country gather around for the celebration. Thirdly, they don’t divide the seasons in to four but in to two, so they have two different kinds of traditional festivals according to the seasons – summer and winter. When the countries around Mongol signifies the traditional festivals based on lunar calendar, but in Mongol they think of ‘Nadam’ as more important tradition which is held in summer, and start preparing for winter, making pelts. Even though the disappearance of traditional cultures in 21st century makes hard to find an actual tradition, I want to understand and look at the basic features for not just my own country but also the countries around myself.

1. 들어가는 말
 2. 한국의 계절별 주요 세시풍속
 3. 몽골의 계절별 주요 세시풍속
 4. 한국과 몽골의 세시풍속 비교
 5. 나아가는 말

• 조윤경(동북아시아 문화연구소)