What is the cultural significance of food in Korea?
ö/2024-12-21
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If you think about the cultural meaning of food, I think it is knowing and communicating.
The best way to understand someone or a country is to learn a language.
Not long ago, Korean writer Han Kang got the Nobel Prize in Literature.
But I noticed a British translator, Deborah Smith.
I heard that she was interested in Korean culture, so she learned Korean by herself and received a master's doctorate in Korean studies in Korea.
Learning the language of a country of interest like her is not an easy task.
Likewise, food gives us a great opportunity to know Korea and communicate with Koreans.
In the food, you can see the emotions and ethnicity of the people of the country.
Korean food usually needs a lot of ingredients.
To make food by mixing many ingredients means that Koreans love a community where many people live together.
And the most important thing for Koreans when they make food is that they make it with sincerity.
Such Korean hearts are contained in the food.
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