Korea

The kite is one of the most popular plays in Korea. It can be seen in the cities and the campaigns during the first moon of the lunar calendar. The children like the adults can start to fly as soon as they make their visit of new year with ainés, friends and neighbors, and this until half of the month.

At the end of this period, it is habit to register ideograms meaning "to drive out misfortune to welcome happiness" on a kite, then to launch it while making unroll all the wire until letting it escape so that it carries with him all misfortunes of the year. For this reason you never should recover a kite fallen on the ground from fear of being contaminated by the misfortune which it is carrying.

In Korea, some competitions are organized to devote the champions, but the majority of the fights are friendly. The majority of the kites are built by the pilots for their own needs. They can be very decorated and have required much time with manufacture, although they are dedicated to being lost. The kites also have the capacity to protect the dwelling against the bad spirits. The kites bought for decoration differ by their rdesign and their capacities from flight.

Extracted the book "traditional fighting Kites throughout the world", by Karine Boitrelle and Ludovic Petit.