Korean recipes: oyster tofu soup

Korean recipes: oyster tofu soup     Dubbed the ‘milk of the sea,’ oysters are just as nutritious as milk. It is in the fall, especially between September and December, that oysters are in-season across the Korean Peninsula. Oysters are often called the “milk of the sea,” as they are just as nutritious as milk.…

Korean food wins praise in Frankfurt

Korean food wins praise in Frankfurt   The age of Korean food is coming, following in the footsteps of the popularity of Korean pop music and Korean soap operas. Korean foods such as kimchi, bibimbap mixed rice and chicken ginseng soup, or “samgyetang”, are all known as being healthy foods. Reflecting such growth, the Korean…

Eat your way across Korea: barbecued ribs

Eat your way across Korea: barbecued ribs   The delicious world of Korean cuisine is broad and deep. From the vegetable dishes of kimchi, through the variety of soybean and soybean paste soups, Korean cuisine encompasses the expansive geography and habitats native to the Korean Peninsula. Korean cuisine is also the result of Korea’s millennia-long…

King Jeongjo constructed filial piety and new hope in Suwon Hwaseong Fortress

King Jeongjo constructed filial piety and new hope in Suwon Hwaseong Fortress Nowadays the Korean movie ‘The Throne(Sado)'(introduced in latter half of writing)  has been a box office hit and thanks to it, people are more interested in Korean history, especially in Late Joseon Dynasty, 18th century when King Yeongjo who is King Jeongjo’s grand father and King…