Nobody sleeps the night before Solnal, the Korean Lunar New Year. The story of Yakwangi is told to send the children to bed early on New Year's Day since they must be very tired with no sleep from the night before. In the story, the character Yakwangi is thwarted from stealing shoes when he spies a rice strainer and mistakes the holes for eyes. (The jori is a tool used to sift small stones or straw particles from the rice. People used to buy one very early in the morning of New Year's day and hang it up on the wall. It is to pick up happiness in the New Year as one does with grains of rice.) Yakwangi stops to count the "eyes", loses track, and starts over. Eventually he forgets his original purpose and leaves the house at dawn.