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konggi or kongginori. Gonggi (Korean: 공기, IPA: [koːŋɡi]) also known as Korean Jacks and Seven stones is a popular Korean children's game that is traditionally played using five or more small grape-sized pebbles. Nowadays, children buy colourful plastic stones instead of finding pebbles. It can be played alone or with friends.
McCune–Reischauer. Chegich'agi. Jegichagi is a Korean traditional outdoor game in which players kick a paper jegi into the air and attempt to keep it aloft. A jegi is similar to a shuttlecock, and is made from paper wrapped around a small coin. In Korea, children usually play alone or with friends in winter seasons, especially on Korean New Year.
Yutnori. [edit] Yutnori, a board dice game with four wooden sticks, is one of the most popular traditional games of Korea and usually played on the first day of the New Year by two players (or teams). Each player (or team of two players) takes turns throwing yut sticks. Each stick has two sides (round and flat), which makes the stick roll.
Paengi-Chigi (kor:팽이치기) is a traditional Korean game enjoyed by both the both young and old and is played mainly in the winter. This game involves a top and a stick with a long string. These spin tops are wound up with twine and then let go. [1] Players must keep hitting the spinning top with the string tuck with the stick to make it ...
Squid (Korean: 오징어, ojingŏ), is a children's game played in South Korea. The game is named as such because the shape of the playing field drawn on the ground resembles that of a squid. There are regional variations of the name such as "squid gaisan " (with gaisan thought to be a variation of the Japanese word kaisen 開戦, 'to start a ...
Biseokchigi (Korean: 비석치기) is a category of traditional Korean games involving the skillful throwing or kicking of rocks. [1]There are a wide variety of regional names for the game, including biseokchagi (비석차기), [1] biseokkagi (비석까기), [2] mogjakkagi (목자까기), [2] jakkagi (자까기), [2] bisasaeggi (비사색기), [2] and more.
Origin. Yutnori finds its roots in Korea's Three Kingdom Period (57 BCE – 668 CE). While its exact origin remains uncertain, evidence of yunnori has been documented in various historical records spanning Korea, China, and Japan. A claim by Korean historian and activist Chae Ho-shin suggests its descent from the Korean Kingdom Gojoseon in 2333 ...
Blue Marble Game (부루마불게임) is a Korean board game similar to Monopoly manufactured by Si-Yat-Sa. While Monopoly is traditionally played across locations in a single city, the Blue Marble Game features cities from across the world; its title is a reference to The Blue Marble photograph taken by the crew of Apollo 17, and its description of the Earth as seen from space.