Korea Joongang Daily
Korea JoongAng Daily

설날 만두 드시고 싶나요? 여기가 바로 만두 맛집

Seollal may be best known as the day for eating tteokguk, but a deeper conversation into the traditional holiday dish leads to a more divided issue: Does mandu have a place in the New Year's staple soup?

2024-02-23

A guide to Seollal's must-eat dish

Seollal, or the Lunar New Year, one of the country's most festive holidays in the pre-pandemic days, used to be about large family gatherings, paying respects to ancestors and a seemingly endless amount of food. People drove for hours in the...

2022-01-27

There's only one dish to welcome the New Year with in Korea

In Korea, where everyone becomes one year older at the same time on the New Year’s Day, there is a joke that you won’t age unless you eat your bowl of tteokguk.

2020-12-31