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The Institute of Traditional Korean Cuisine Pyeonchang-gun Gangwon-do

The Traditional Korean Food Experience Center is dedicated to preserving, passing down, and developing Korean food culture, offering a number of experience programs on traditional food. Visitors can also lodge at a hanok, or traditional Korean house. Day programs (20,000 won) change by the month, overnight experience programs available (prices vary and classes are held in the Korean language).

* Special Features All the dishes are made of organic vegetables grown by the staff. The center does not use any chemical/artificial ingredients whatsoever. The traditional houses are furnished with classic Korean furniture. There are over 500 jars containing fermented pastes and sauces. The center also has a traditional ice cooler for storing salted fish. Visitors staying at a traditional house are given free organic tomatoes in spring and autumn, and oven roasted potatoes in winter. A wide variety of fermented pastes and sauces such as gochujang (red pepper paste) and doenjang (bean paste) will be sold from November 2009.