Bindaetteok is a savory pancake and a popular item on many menus. People enjoy the dish not only in the winter but also at banquets, such as weddings or hoegap 60th birth...

Mar 11,2016

Across Korean cuisine, there are many dishes that are cooked with rice in a soup or broth.Broadly, these dishes can be called tang ban (탕반, 湯飯) or janggukbap in Korean. M...

Mar 04,2016

Ipchun (입춘, 立春) marks the beginning of the first of the 24 solar terms and it falls around Feb. 4. It heralds the beginning of spring and the time to start farming. As th...

Feb 26,2016

The Great Full Moon of the First Month, or Jeongwol Daeboreum (정월 대보름), falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month and marks the first full moon after the Lunar New Y...

Feb 19,2016

Yakgwa are cookies that can also be medicine, and the snack has one of the longest histories in Korean cuisine. The snack originated during the era of Korea's ...

Feb 08,2016

Seollal Lunar New Year’s Day is back. This holiday has more meanings than other days, as we are now one year older. On Seollal, families and relatives get together to per...

Feb 05,2016

Bibimbap is one of the most popular Korean dishes enjoyed by non-Koreans. Depending on what ingredients you add and how you mix it, you can make your own bibimbap to your...

Jan 29,2016

What would you feed a weak, sick bull to make it immediately stand up? The answer is small octopuses, or nakji (낙지). Jeong Yak-jeon (정약전, 丁若銓) (1758-1816), a scholar an...

Jan 22,2016

In winter, people can easily catch a cold or other illness because cold weather makes our immune systems a bit weaker. To stay healthy and to protect the immune system, p...

Jan 15,2016

Yaksik cuisine is usually eaten on the Jeongwol Daeboreum, the first full moon of the Lunar New Year. It's made with healthy ingredients, such as chestnuts, jujubes, pine...

Jan 08,2016