Yut Nori: Korea’s New Year Race Game of Sticks and Horses

On the morning of Seollal, the Korean Lunar New Year, the game comes out before the food does. Four wooden sticks clatter onto a mat, someone shouts “Mo!”, and four generations of one family start arguing about whether to stack their pieces or split them. The game is Yut Nori (윷놀이), and Koreans have been […]

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