On the eve of Daeboreum, the first full moon of the lunar year,
the markets are full of foodstuffs associated with the festival
such as peanuts, walnuts, red beans, millet and wild vegetables.
The signature dish for the festival, which falls this Thursday,
is ogokbap or five different kinds of grain -- rice, millet, red
beans and beans. Choi Myung-lim, a curator at the National Folk
Museum of Korea, says some farmers include any crop they grow,
since that augurs well for a good harvest of it. People shared
ogokbap with neighbors because they believed that eating the
ogokbap of more than three households would bring them luck
throughout a year. According to the Korean Almanac, a book on
the changing seasons and customs of Korea, ogokbap also has a
healing effect for children. If their skin turns dark and they
lose weight in spring affected by the change of the season,
having them share ogokbap gathered from 100 homes in the
neighborhood with a dog will solve the problem -- child and dog
should sit face to face