3. Korean Food
Let's have K Food Party with Wonder Girls!!!
Juk 죽 (Porridge)
Juk is a predominantly Korean porridge made of grains such as cooked rice, beans, sesame, and azuki beans. It is sold commercially by many juk chain stores in South Korea.
김치 Kimchi
Kimchi is a traditional fermented Korean dish made of vegetables with a variety of seasonings. Kimchi is also a main ingredient for many popular Korean dishes such as kimchi stew (김치찌개; kimchi jjigae), kimchi soup (김칫국; kimchiguk), and kimchi fried rice.
Bibimbap 비빔밥 (Rice Mixed with Vegetables and Beef)
Bibimbap is a signature Korean dish. The word literally means "mixed meal" or "mixed rice". Bibimbap is served as a bowl of warm white rice topped with namul (sautéed and seasoned vegetables) and gochujang (chili pepper paste). A raw or fried egg and sliced meat (usually beef) are common additions. The ingredients are stirred together thoroughly just before eating. It can be served either cold or hot.
Samgyetang 삼계탕 (Ginseng Chicken soup)
Samgyetang is a variety of guk or Korean soup, which primarily consists of a whole young chicken and Korean ginseng. It is believed that this soup can prevent illness.
Doenjang jjigae 된장 찌개
Doenjang jjigae is a variety of jjigae or stew-like Korean traditional dish, made with doenjang (Korean soybean paste) and available ingredients such as vegetables, mushrooms, seafood, or tofu. It is one of the most representative dishes of everyday home-cooked Korean meals. Doenjang is an essential part of the Korean cuisine, and every Korean home has it all year around.
Bulgogi 불고기
Bulgogi is a Korean dish that usually consists of marinated barbecued beef, chicken or pork. The word Bulgogi literally means "fire meat" in Korean. It is listed at number 23 on World's 50 most delicious foods readers' poll compiled by CNN Go in 2011.
Naengmyeon 냉면 (Cold Noodles)
Naengmyeon is a Korean dish of long and thin hand-made noodles made from the flour and starch of various ingredients: buckwheat , potatoes, sweet potatoes, 칡냉면, naengmyun made with the starch from arrowroot (darker color and chewier than buckwheat noodles), and kudzu (칡, chik). Varieties with ingredients such as seaweed and green tea are available.
Tteokbokki 떡볶이
Tteokbokki, also known as Ddeokbokki is a popular Korean snack food which is commonly purchased from street vendors or Pojangmacha. Originally it was called tteok jjim (떡찜), and was a braised dish of sliced rice cake, meat, eggs, and seasoning. or Pojangmacha. Originally it was called tteok jjim (떡찜), and was a braised dish of sliced rice cake, meat, eggs, and seasoning.
4. Korean Culture
Actually there are some similarities between Chinese culture and Korea culture. For example, we celebrate Lunar New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival together. "Hanja" was used by Korean before the creation of "Hangul". These cause me feel more interested to Korea culture.
Hanbok
I like their Hanbok. It really looked nice and pretty. It can show the elegant of a girl when she is wearing it. I really hope I can have chance to wear it.
Pansori (판소리)
Pansori is a genre of Korean traditional music. It is a vocal and percussional music performed by one sorikkun (Korean: 소리꾼, a singer) and one gosu (a drummer playing a barrel drum called buk Korean: 북). The term pansori is derived from pan (Korean: 판, meaning "a place where many people gather"), and sori (Korean: 소리, meaning "sound").
Chunhyangga is the most famous pansori in Korea, having had considerable popularity in the country for the past century. Chunhyangga is considered to be the best pansori musically, and as a work of literature and play.
We can watch Chunhyangga pansori(춘향가) performance by Sungmin and Hyorin here.
Hangul
Hangul, the Korean alphabet, is the native alphabet of the Korean language. It is a separate script from Hanja, the logographic Chinese characters which are also sometimes used to write Korean. Hangul is a true alphabet of 24 consonant and vowel letters. However, instead of being written sequentially like the letters of the Latin alphabet, Hangul letters are grouped into blocks, such as 한 han; each of these blocks transcribes a syllable. That is, although 한 may look like a single character, it is composed of three distinct letters: ㅎ h, ㅏ a, and ㄴ n. Each Hangul block consists of two to five letters, including at least one consonant and one vowel. I'm still learning Hangul now. You can speak Korean if you memorize the Hangul chart.
Read Futher?
Korea Touches My Heart Pt. 1: Entertainment and Interesting Places
Korea Touches My Heart Pt. 2: Food and Culture
Korea Touches My Heart Pt. 3: Little things you don't know about Korea
Korea Touches My Heart : Why me??
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