The letter covers all three bullet points from the prompt—significance of New Year in Korea, how it is celebrated, and personal likes—with clear purpose, friendly register, and well-chosen supporting detail such as ancestral ceremonies, hanbok, and tteokguk.
8.0Ideas progress logically across clearly focused paragraphs answering each bullet point in turn, though cohesion relies on fairly simple devices and some linkages, such as 'make up for lost time', are slightly loose.
7.0Vocabulary is flexible and topic-appropriate, including natural cultural terms like Seollal, japchae, and ceremonial bow, but there is some repetition of 'country' and 'family', a spelling slip ('ountry'), and occasional imprecise phrasing like 'complete family'.
7.0A good range of sentence structures is used accurately, including complex forms such as 'since it is one of the few occasions when families get together', with only minor awkwardness, for example in 'travel to see their family'.
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