In the old days, kites were usually flown between the first and the fifteenth days of the first lunar month. Sometimes the kite string was cut, symbolizing the expulsion of misfor-tune in the new year. The oldest extant record of kite flying involves Silla General Kim Yu-shin who, in 647, hung a burn-ing straw scarecrow from a kite and sent it over enemy bar-rscks to win a hattle.

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