Before Chuseok in Korea: The In-Laws, the Daughter-in-Law and That "Charye" Table
Chuseok (추석) 2026 in Korea falls on 25 September (day 15 of the eighth lunar month), with the holiday running 24 to 26 September. Among the terms Koreans searched most over these two days are both "parents-in-law" and "daughter-in-law". This article is about how the offering table is laid out: fish east and meat west, jujubes and chestnuts and pears and persimmons, red east and white west — and what Korean media fact-checks found: these rules have no traceable source in the old documents.