How do they celebrate birthdays in North Korea?

Like anyone else, most Koreans like to mark birthdays as a special occasion. Traditionally, Koreans eat a kind of seaweed soup in a beef broth with white rice. read more

They cut a cake and thank Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il for the cake and everything which enables them to celebrate the very same birthday as compared to the other 99% of their total population who die of starvation. read more

Dol (doljanchi, or tol) is probably one of the best-known of the Korean birthday celebrations. Dol is celebrated for the first birthday of a child. When Korea had little medicinal knowledge, many newborns would die from childhood diseases or because of Korea’s seasonal temperature differences. read more