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Korean Childhood Game
A Korean children's game of kicking a paper shuttlecock
Jegichagi is a children's game played at the start of the year, kicking a shuttlecock with the foot and competing over who can keep it up for the most kicks. Players took turns for a personal record, or stood facing each other and kicked it back and forth.
An old jegi was made by wrapping a coin or a holed piece of metal in hanji paper or silk and splitting the ends into strands. The paper tassel or feathers help the shuttlecock fall straight back onto the foot.
In Seoul, planting the foot between kicks was called ttanggangaji, alternating both feet eojijaji, and keeping the kicking foot off the ground heollaengi.
You play all three styles in order: one-foot, two-foot and heollaengi. One-foot lets you track freely under the shuttlecock, two-foot has you pick the announced left or right foot yourself, and heollaengi hops on the supporting foot to line up. The rhythm speeds up with every success, and the first miss ends that style.
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Play JegichagiThe history and traditional play above are summarised from the public sources below. Names and rules vary a little from region to region.