Summer Season In Korea

Hae-un-dae Beach

Bulgogi---Korean Beef Barbeque

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• 1 pound flank steak, thinly sliced
• 5 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 1/2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1/4 cup chopped green onion
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
• 2 tablespoons sesame oil
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

Directions

1. Place the beef in a shallow dish. Combine soy sauce, sugar, green onion, garlic, sesame seeds, sesame oil, and ground black pepper in a small bowl. Pour over beef. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour or overnight.
2. Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat, and lightly oil the grate.
3. Quickly grill beef on hot grill until slightly charred and cooked through, 1 to 2 minutes per side.

How To Make Kimchi

Ingredients :

- 2 heads Napa cabbage
- 1 1/4 cups sea salt
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 5 green onions, chopped
- 1/2 small white onion, minced
- 2 cloves garlic, pressed
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 5 tablespoons Korean chile powder

How to Cook :

-Cut the cabbages in half lengthwise and trim the ends. Rinse and cut into pieces about 2 inch square. Place the cabbage into large resealable bags and sprinkle salt on the leaves so they are evenly coated. Use your hands to rub the salt in to the leaves. Seal the bags and leave at room temperature for 6 hours.

-Rinse the salt from the cabbage leaves and then drain and squeeze out any excess liquid. Place the cabbage in a large container with a tight fitting lid. Stir in the fish sauce, green onions, white onion, garlic, sugar and ginger. Sprinkle the Korean chile powder over the mixture. Wear plastic gloves to protect your hands and rub the chile powder into the cabbage leaves until evenly coated. Seal the container and set in a cool dry place. Leave undisturbed for 4 days. Refrigerate before serving, and store in the refrigerator for up to 1 month (if it lasts that long!).

Facts about South Korean culture

• The eldest in the house is considered the most wise, and therefore makes most of the important decisions.
• When you enter a South Korean home, the first thing you do is remove your shoes.
• When the first night of the new year comes everybody hides their shoes. This is because there is a belief that a ghost will come down and try on everyone’s shoes. If the ghost finds a pair it likes it will take it. It is thought that the owner of the shoes will then have bad luck for the whole year.
• Korean architecture is influenced by China.
• The martial art 'Tae kwon do' originated in Korea.

Facts about South Korea

• Korea has 6,228 km of coastline and nearly 3,000 islands located mainly in the Yellow Sea and Korea Strait. Only a few of them lie off the East Sea.
• Its total area is 38,462.49 square miles.
• Its terrain is mostly rugged and mountainous with little arable land.
• Hallasan, an extinct volcano at a height of 1950 meters is the highest point in South Korea.
• It is also known as ‘Hermit Kingdom’ and ‘Land of the Morning Calm’.
• South Korea has a Continental climate with hot, humid summers and dry, cold winters.
• The major cities of South Korea are Seoul, Pusan, Taegu, Inchan and Kwangju.
• Its largest and capital city is Seoul, which is the world’s second-largest metropolitan city.
• Their national anthem is ‘Aegukka’ (The Song of Love of Country) which was adopted on August 15,1948.
• Confucianism, shamanism (traditional spirit worship), Christianity, Buddhism and Chondokyo (Religion of the Heavenly Way) are the religions followed in South Korea.
• Korean is the main language and English is widely taught in schools. The Korean language is related to the Mongolian and Japanese languages. A large number of Chinese cognates exist in the Korean language. Around 1,300 Chinese characters are used in modern Korean.
• It has a population of over 49 million people by current estimates.
• It is one of the world’s leading economies and has a large and sophisticated technological base. It has the 13th-largest economy in the world and the third- largest in Asia.
• It has the seventh largest fishing industry in the world.
• It is known as one of the Four Asian Tiger economies.
• It has 63 daily newspapers.

Tteok-bok-i ( Rice Cakes In Hot Sauces)

If you dare, taste the most popular street food of all time! It is called Tteokbokki.  It’s simply cylinder shaped rice cakes cooked with Korean hot pepper sauce as a main ingredient. A lot of malt is in the sauce, so you should be able to taste the sweetness but for people who not familiar with spicy food, it can be just damn hot. You can find this weird Korean food at street vendors in every corner in Seoul. 

K-Will releases MV teaser for “My Heart Is Beating” feat. IU & Lee Joon

On March 9th, K-Will released the teaser for his highly-anticipated comeback MV, “My Heart Is Beating“, which features the acting talents of IU and MBLAQ’s Lee Joon.

The two came together as lovers for the music video, and in the teaser, fans caught a glimpse of the two wearing wedding attire. Judging by the teaser photos released earlier this week, we can definitely look forward to seeing more sides to their love story.