In Korea, bureom (부럼) is a collection of various kinds of nuts such as peanuts, walnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts, and ginkgo nuts. It is popular and traditional to eat during the Daeboreum (literally: "Great Full Moon"), a Korean holiday that celebrates the first full moon of the new year of the lunar Korean calendar. It is believed that cracking a nut in your mouth early in the morning on Daeboreum will help strengthen teeth, avoid allergies, prevent boils, and bring good luck for the coming year.[1][2]
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- ^ "Jeongwol Daeboreum (Fifteenth day of the lunar calendar)". Korea Tourism Org. Archived from the original on 2015-05-03. Retrieved 2012-10-29.
- ^ "Cracking "bureom" brings a healthy year" (PDF). Dynamic Busan.