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Customarily, elders receive visits and greetings from their offspring, relatives and neighbors. In return, they visit and give greetings to their elders. The junior members of the family solicit virtuous words from their seniors by performing formal bows. The seniors usually respond by saying "My best wishes for the realization of your dreams this year." This encounter occasionally leads the seniors to tell their own or others' stories about persons who have been rewarded for their virtuous deeds. "Sebae : new years bow : 세배 " are performed within three days of the New Year Day. But the exchange of greetings is allowed until the 15th day of the first lunar month, in case where offspring live far away from parents. Adult visitors are given wine and food, and children are given pocket money for doing Sebae.

They regard such annual greetings as a precious legacy which should be preserved by all means. Visits to family elders who perform ancestral ceremonies are still common place in Korea.

Folk games begin in the afternoon of New Year Day. Boys fly kites and girls play on a seesaw called "Nolttwigi :널뛰기 " in Korean.

Young couples dressed in their colorful Hanbok, traditional clothing. They are hurrying to the eldest's home to pay obeisance to their ancestors.

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