The harvest moon at home.
Home is in two countries.
You are the eldest household, which means Chuseok starts in your kitchen two days early and you are still arranging the charye table when the relatives pull in from the long drive. A Korean family in Los Angeles, New Jersey, Toronto or Sydney does the same thing on the same weekend as the family in Daegu, with the same songpyeon shaped at the table and the same children fidgeting in hanbok, and each side wonders what the other's morning looked like. The photos end up split between KakaoTalk rooms on two continents. One QR code gathers both sides into one gallery, and a private stream lets the grandmother in Korea see the bow.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at Chuseok gatherings
Why Chuseok gatherings work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Both sides of the family, one morning
The family in Korea holds charye at dawn and the family in New Jersey holds it that evening, because of the time difference, and each side photographs its own table. One code shared in both KakaoTalk rooms puts the two tables in one gallery, so the grandmother sees her son's household bow in Seoul and her daughter's in Toronto without either having to forward anything.
The bow, watched from the other continent
Charye is the moment a parent abroad most wants to see: the table laid, the children in hanbok, the deep bow. Live Broadcast is included with the Event Pass and streams it on a private link with sound, so a grandfather in Busan watches the ceremony rather than reading about it later, and the children hear him say their names.
Songpyeon hands and hanbok fittings
The photographs a family keeps from Chuseok are the ones nobody planned: the aunts' flour-covered hands pinching songpyeon, the smallest cousin refusing the hanbok jeogori, the trunk full of gift sets before the drive. Whoever has the phone in hand uploads it with one scan, at full resolution, into the gallery the whole family shares.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
unlimited photo and video uploads
Every guest can send as much as they like: phone photos, iPhone HEICs, short videos, up to a fair-use bound of 25 GB per event. Originals are kept at full resolution.
Broadcast it to the people who couldn't come
A private live broadcast is included with the Event Pass: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with sound, and keep the recording afterwards.
Voice messages
Guests record up to 60 seconds of audio right from the upload page: a blessing, a toast, a story. It is saved next to the photos in the same gallery.
Private by default, never indexed
The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you share. Guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers, and you can close the gallery whenever you choose.
Full-resolution downloads
Download any photo, or the whole event as one archive, at original quality. What guests uploaded is what you keep — no compression, no watermark on paid events.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event the week before, name it for the year and the household, and drop the link into the family chat on both continents before anyone sets off.
Print the code on a card for the charye table and one for the kitchen counter where the songpyeon gets made, and mention it once before the bow.
Relatives scan and upload through the ceremony, the meal and the cemetery visit. Start Live Broadcast before the bow so the family in Korea joins.
Once the last car has left, download the originals and send the gallery link to both sides so each keeps the other's morning.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land. Photos pass a quick AI check first; videos wait for a person.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
M2FDV8LW
This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from Chuseok gatherings
Agree the timing across the time zones before the holiday. Charye in Korea falls in the early morning, which is the previous evening in California and the middle of the night in Sydney, so a family in two countries cannot watch each other live without planning. Pick the one ceremony the relatives abroad most want to see, usually the grandparents' table in Korea, and stream that one with Live Broadcast, then let the other households upload their own charye photos through the day. The gallery ends up holding every table, and the one stream everyone stayed up for.
Make the songpyeon session its own thing. In most families the rice cakes are shaped the evening before Chuseok, with the aunts at the table, the children making misshapen ones and someone declaring that a pretty songpyeon means a pretty daughter. It is the loosest, most photographed hour of the holiday and the one that never makes it out of the kitchen. Put the code on the counter, turn on the voice guestbook and ask the grandmother to record how her mother taught her; that recording is worth more than any of the photos.
If the family does beolcho and visits the graves, tell relatives the code works there too. The visit is quiet and people hesitate to photograph it, but a few shots of the cleared grave, the cousins with sickles and the bow at the mound are what the family abroad asks for afterwards, because they could not be there to help. Upload them into the same gallery. Turn on host review if some elders would rather approve which of those photos the wider family sees.
Common questions about Chuseok gatherings
Can my parents in Korea watch our charye from here in Los Angeles?
Yes. Live Broadcast is included with the Event Pass and streams up to 90 minutes to as many as 100 viewers on a private link with audio. Your parents open it in their phone's browser with nothing to install. Send the link in the family KakaoTalk room the day before, with the time in both zones written out, and put the phone on a stand where it sees the table and the bow. They will hear the children as well as see them.
My grandmother only reads Korean. Can she upload photos or open the gallery?
The guest pages are in English, Español, Français, so the words on screen will not be in Korean. In practice she still manages, because uploading is one large button that opens the camera roll, and you can write the welcome message at the top of the page in Korean yourself. The gallery link works the same way: she taps it and scrolls. If in doubt, have a grandchild scan it for her once and leave the page open on her phone.
The family in Korea and the family here hold Chuseok on different days. Is that two events?
One event. The code stays open for the whole holiday window, so the Korean household's charye at dawn and yours that evening go into the same gallery, and so does the drive, the cemetery visit and the meal the day after. If you want the households kept apart, add each one as a sub-event under the same code. The family then uses a single link, which is easier to keep alive in a group chat than several.
Some of the grave photos are personal. Can I control what the wider family sees?
Yes. Turn on host review and every upload waits in your queue until you approve it, so a photo from the cemetery or of an elder who was unwell does not appear until you decide. The gallery itself is private, reachable only by link or code, not listed anywhere and blocked from search engines and AI crawlers. You can close it to new uploads once the holiday ends while the family keeps browsing it for 365 days on an Event Pass.
What does it cost for one Chuseok?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for the holiday, with no subscription. It includes unlimited uploads from relatives on both continents, the voice guestbook, host review, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting, and Live Broadcast for the family in Korea is included. Seollal in the new year is a separate event with its own code, so the two holidays stay apart in the family's record.
Every photo from Chuseok gatherings, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
Explore other use cases
One QR code, every kind of event. See how Picsui fits yours.
More occasions