Koreans have been told that only when having delicious dishes to their heart's content on the day can they expect a rich harvest and enjoy good health.

Typical of traditional dishes are varieties of rice cakes, including fancy rice cake, steamed rice-cake and glutinous rice-cake.

Fancy rice cake, pasted with no bean flour, is taken on the morning of the Lunar New Year's Day.

Steamed rice-cake is taken with mixtures of glutinous rice powder, black soybean, jujube, chestnut and honey. Inhabitants in Kaesong area would present steamed rice-cake put in the steamer to families of their in-laws.

Glutinous rice-cake is one of popular dishes among the Koreans.

Rice-cake soup, mixed with boiled meat of pheasant or chicken, is symbolic of dishes prepared on the day.

Mung-bean pancake is considered to be one of needed dishes on the day.

The holiday dishes also include honey cookie, fried glutinous rice cake and fruit punch.