Rice cakes, ice sculptures usher in Lunar New Year at Pyeongchang Games

South Koreans in traditional clothes posed for pictures alongside the ice sculptures that dotted the park while children played with large sticks that work as a kind of dice in a traditional Korean board game called yut.

As is customary for Lunar New Year, children received packets of cash from older relatives.

“I like New Year’s Day because I receive lots of money,” said six-year-old Lee Chae-won.