Sungkyunkwan aims to standardize the traditional Chuseok feast but newer generations are done with outdated patriarchal customs
Source: Everyday Economy via Naver
1. [+595, -9] It's difficult to change the mind of elders who think that a Chuseok table needs to be brimming with food to the point of its legs breaking. Please spread this news far and wide on TV and news channels everywhere~~
2. [+359, -4] Please report this every single day on the 9 am news. I want my mother to see this.
3. [+308, -9] I think people just end up frying 'jeon' since everyone's gathered anyway and you need more food on the table anyway ㅠㅠ please get rid of this outdated Chuseok culture. Let's just make it one night that families gather to hang out ㅠㅠ the media can be the first step in a new direction.
4. [+188, -3] Holidays like Chuseok should just be a simple day where families get together at a nice restaurant for one night. It's way too much to be expected to gather at someone's house for days on end... and it always requires the thankless sacrifice of one family member to make it all happen ㅠㅠ
5. [+65, -0] I hate that all of these customs are decided by people who don't ever have to cook or prepare these customs. The only people who have a say should be the daughter-in-laws who do all the heavy work.
6. [+60, -2] Just get rid of the custom of a Chuseok feast altogether~
7. [+38, -0] Honoring our ancestors is a fine tradition and all... but why is all of the work put on the daughter-in-laws who have no ties to said ancestors? Let's just let all people spend time with their own families and leave everyone alone~~~
8. [+38, -1] Forget these "official" rules and customs. Every family should just be allowed to make up their own rules. You don't have to set up a full table if you don't want to. Maybe fruits and rice cakes are all you want.
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Article: "Enough with the Chuseok feasts" wife in her sixties threatens husband with knife over burden
Source: Everyday Economy via Nate
1. [+4,098, -152] Her method of expressing her anger may have been wrong but I completely understand how she must've been feeling. When I'm frying 'jeon', I, too, wonder what I'm doing all this for. All this work for the jeon to end up cold by the time it hits the table, and no one wants to take it home for leftovers either.
2. [+3,526, -154] Just get rid of all these customs and traditions. It's backwards and outdated and people should stop marrying into families that uphold such conservative mindsets.
3. [+3,276, -93] These holidays are never about cooking enough to eat but an over-abundance that ends up rotting away in your freezer before being thrown out. It's a waste.
4. [+273, -6] The thing about these Chuseok feasts is that it's never a group effort. It's always one elderly grandma who has to do all of the grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, for decades on end...
5. [+247, -6] The people who want these tables should be the ones to cook and do the work!
6. [+234, -6] I wasn't aware of these issues as a child but now that I'm older and have my own family, I realize that these customs are nothing but forcing my mother, my wife, and now my daughter to suffer.. I've noticed that it's also always the uneducated classes that obsess over these ancestral tables.
7. [+199, -5] Let's all just focus on the living and be good to them first!
8. [+174, -6] What I can't stand about men is that they don't lift a finger when it comes to cooking all this but they're more than happy to eat and rate the food and get mad at you when you suggest catering instead.
9. [+159, -2] The grandma was wrong to threaten her husband with a knife but I understand where she's coming from. She's spent 30 years of her life putting together these Chuseok tables, I can't imagine how difficult it must've been.
10. [+99, -2] We need to get rid of these holiday customs full stop. Every single one of these holidays ends up with news articles about families murdering each other or couples ending up in divorce. These customs serve no good in the end.
11. [+94, -4] I think these holiday customs are becoming an issue in society especially because of lower birth rates as well. All of these holidays instigate couple fights and rising divorce rates. Let's please get rid of these outdated customs.
12. [+91, -2] It's a nice thing to honor your ancestors with these feasts but there's no point in making the living suffer for them.
13. [+83, -4] I think mothers need to be stronger in their resolve as well. They always talk about how difficult it is but they're so used to tradition that they just think it's the lot they've been dealt with in life and continue upholding these traditions year after year without the resolve to just stop.
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