Korean games

board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,500 years ago

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Ssireum () or Korean wrestling is a folk wrestling style and traditional national sport of Korea that began in the fourth century.

Janggi (, also romanized as changgi or jangki), sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular on the Korean Peninsula. The game was derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess), and is very similar to it, including the starting position of some of the pieces, and the 9×10 gameboard, but without the xiangqi "river" dividing the board horizontally in the middle.

Yunnori (), also known as yutnori, yut, nyout and yoot, is a traditional board game played in Korea, especially during Korean New Year. The game is also called cheoksa () or sahui ().

thumb|Reproduction of the ddakjis seen in the Television show#Seasons/series/strand|television series [[Squid Game, in blue and red.]] Ddakji (; ) is a traditional Korean toy used primarily to play variants of a category of games called ddakji chigi (; ). They are usually made of paper and are thrown in some way during games.

Gonggi () is a Korean playground game that is traditionally played using five or more small grape-sized pebbles or plastic stones. It can be played alone or with friends. The stones are called gonggitdol (). The game has five levels of increasing difficulty, testing hand-eye coordination, dexterity, and timing.

kite used in the sport of kite fighting

Pitch-pot () is a traditional Chinese game that requires players to throw arrows or sticks from a set distance into a large, sometimes ornate, canister.

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.

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Jwibullori () is a Korean game in which participants create streaks of light by swinging cans filled with burning items. The game is played during the first full moon of the year in the lunar calendar, which is a national holiday in Korea. It is played during the time when fires are started on farmlands to exterminate harmful insects and rats by burning away their habitat. Another purpose of the game is to wish for good health.

ancient Asian (primarily Chinese) children's board game

Yeonnalligi () is a Korean game. Yeon originates from the Chinese word , which means "kite". The game uses rectangle kites and is typically played on the Korean holiday Seollal. During Seollal, the kite is flown far away with the Sino-Korean word songaegyeongbok to fight against bad luck by cutting the thread connected to the kite around sunset. The word means to send off bad luck and greet good fortune.

thumb | right | Brooklyn Museum - Ayame no Sikku - Hishikawa Moronobu Seokjeon () was an ancient Korean ritual game or pastime. Originating as a form of martial training, seokjeon involved two teams of combatants throwing stones at one another. Slings were also used. Over time, it developed into a formalised game.

Biseokchigi () is a category of traditional Korean games involving the skillful throwing or kicking of rocks.

Korean lion mask dance of Bukcheong

Tujeon () are the traditional playing cards of Korea used in the latter half of the Joseon dynasty. They are also known as tupae ().

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Juldarigi (, also chuldarigi) is a traditional Korean sport similar to tug of war. It has a ritual and divinatory significance to many agricultural communities in the country, and is performed at festivals and community gatherings. The sport uses two huge rice-straw ropes, connected by a central peg, which are pulled by teams representing the East and West sides of the village (the competition is often rigged in favour of the Western team). A number of religious and traditional rituals are performed before and after the actual competition.