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Showing posts with label ancestral traditions in korea. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Fire Seeds

In ancestral Korea, many Korean's did not have matches. Every Korean village had a firebank where coals were kept smoldering. If a villager wanted to start a fire they went to the bank to collect a coal to start their fire. These were called fireseeds. It's a respectful name for something so precious to the people.