koreanfestivals1-11, Exercise 2: "The Seoul Lantern Festival is an ancient Buddhist tradition."

Model answer (any four questions):

- Who says so? No owner is given.
- Record, legend or marketing? The Seoul Lantern Festival article says it began in 2009, to celebrate Visit Korea Year 2010 to 2012; nothing in the articles claims a ritual origin.
- Thing or word? Lanterns are a Buddhist feature of Buddha's Birthday (lotus lanterns, the Yeondeunghoe lantern festival), but that is a different event.
- Continuous or revived? Neither: it is a new festival.
- Who benefits? A city tourism campaign; the Jinju festival complained that Seoul's copied its Namgang Yudeung Festival, which began in 2000 as a requiem.

Safer version: "The Seoul Lantern Festival began in 2009 as a city festival of lanterns and light installations; lanterns are also a feature of Buddha's Birthday, a separate and older observance."