The Garden of Morning Calm, the oldest private garden in Korea which derived its name from a great Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore’s description for Korea as “Land of the Morning Calm” during the Joseon Dynasty, is one of the must-see places you need to check out, whether you love garden and flowers or just looking…
If the world regards kimchi as the representative Korean food, it is only natural that this highly-nutritious and super addictive fermented dish is made in to kimchi jjigae, a stew, which Koreans love. Kimchi, the fermented staple in a Korean cuisine spread, is considered as one of the healthiest food in the planet due…
The tangerine season is probably the best time of the year for orange lovers. In this season, everybody’s favorite oranges are never as delicate and as sweet. With that, Jeju is a perfect pick for this celebrated season. Let’s go through the orchards in search for the glorious fruit. This inexpensive yet very enjoyable activity…
The requirements for dongchimi is pretty straightforward: radish, korean pear, ginger, garlic cloves, red chili peppers, and green onion. The radish is primarily fermented in a water-based brine and this brine, in turn, is used as part of many of the known Korean dishes such as naengmyeon. Like many other Korean dishes, dongchimi was…
With many vegetables as supporting characters to bulgogi jeongol, the crowd-favorite pan-grilled beef transforms into a delightful dish that’s perfect to share with friends over lengthy conversations in the dead of winter. That’s quite an image, but bulgogi jeongol, translated to Korean barbeque in a hot pot recipe, is more of a poem-inducing creation than…
If you love the cold winter season so much and would prefer challenging winter treks, the best place to go to is Seorak National Park where snow would not melt even after a long time, keeping \ the mountain in its preserved, snowy state. That’s why it is called Seorak because it is derived from…
Kkakdugi |깍두기 Kimchi is a very well-known Korean side dish, and arguably the country’s representative food. But kimchi has many varieties and kkakdugi or cubed radish kimchi is one of those. In the same way, there are several different varieties of radish around the world and the Korean radish is characterized mainly by its rotund…
The yangnyeom Korean chicken is perhaps one of the most successful Korean food ever to invade the foreign market, at least in Southeast Asia. In malls across SEA, one would find Korean chicken stalls and restaurants marketing these unbelievably crispy chicken dishes coated with sticky, spicy sauce, together with other flavors of deep-fried chicken goodness. …
We owe our runway-inspired and warm winter clothes to these little guys, which are loaded with fluff and cuteness. They are well taken care of at Daegwallyeong Sheep Farm, which is a private ranch (and the only sheep farm in all of Korea) that serves as home to 200 sheep and provides a well-maintained facility…
