Making formal bow of respect to their elders in the morning on New Year's Day has been the custom of remote antiquity of the Korean nation.

People make New Year's visits to the elders of their families and neighborhoods as well as their teachers and friends.

The old people would prepare simple gifts for children and festive dishes for adults.

Koreans also used New Year's box through which people made New Year's greetings without personally calling at the elders.

Those at high posts and the aged put tables inside the gates of their houses so that those who are too busy to call at others would put notes on which New Year's greetings are written even through the third party.

New Year's box manners turned into New Year's cards along with the development of the postcard system.