![]() ![]() “They’ve never seen anything like this before,” she said. ![]() Pio said she wanted to bring her two toddlers, Chloe and Poppy, to experience the celebration. It was Yoo’s cousin Pio’s idea to come to the festival, she said - a “cousin reunion” of sorts. People waited in line for about an hour to sample Jongga brand kimchi at the 4th Annual Bay Area Chuseok Festival in San Francisco. “I’m so glad so many people are here,” she said. Yoo, who teaches in the Asian American Studies department at San Francisco State, said she was happy to see so many people who aren’t Korean at the festival enjoying and celebrating the culture. “We were in line for an hour and a half to get this food,” said Grace Yoo, holding a near empty bowl of noodles, alongside her friend, Valerie Soe, and her cousin, Betty Pio. Lines, some more than 50 people long, snaked around the field for each of the dozens of mostly Korean food booths and trucks. The event, hosted by the Korean Center, featured a stage with a variety of performers, a tent with a live cooking demonstration featuring different types of Korean jang, or fermented paste - several locally made - and booths for small Korean artists and businesses as well as city services.īut the real draw was the food. Thousands of people gathered on an overcast Saturday afternoon at the Presidio’s main lawn for the fourth annual Korean Chuseok festival, one of several celebrations of the mid-autumn harvest moon in San Francisco this weekend. Jungho Kim/Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less Thousands of people attended the 4th Annual Bay Area Chuseok Festival in San Francisco on Saturday, Sept. Jungho Kim/Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 4 of4 Jungho Kim/Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of4Ī worker at the Jongga kimchi booth shows off the Korean fermented cabbage staple at the 4th Annual Bay Area Chuseok Festival in San Francisco on Sept. Jungho Kim/Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of4Īrtist Lightning Yumeku hangs wishes written by people on pieces of paper at the 4th Annual Bay Area Chuseok Festival in San Francisco. Traditional Korean performers parade at the 4th Annual Bay Area Chuseok Festival in San Francisco on Saturday, Sept. ![]()
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