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Korean Culture Class Eat Their Way through Yangpyeong

One of the newest Korean trends is meokbang. The term, used online for videos of people eating a wide variety of foods, is a combination of the words for eating and broadcasting. The trendy term can also refer to gluttonous mealtime displays. Always keen to keep up with the latest trends, the Korean Culture Class’s March program was inspired by the meokbang craze, as the participants had their fill of delicious cuisine all day long. Let’s take a walk through the class’s food-filled itinerary and see their feast unfold!
  A short one-hour drive from Seoul brought the class to a strawberry field in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi-do. The strawberry farm was soaked in sweet citrus fragrance and early spring sun. The classmates wandered around the strawberry patch, filled their punnets with the tastiest looking fruit, and of course filled their tummies in the process. Strawberries and swollen bellies in tow, the class moved next to the food hall in Boritgogae Village. Here, they made and then ate tofu, dumplings, and barley treats in the traditional Korean style. To help burn off some of their excess calories, they tried their hands—and feet—at the time-honored Korean game of jegichagi, a kind of shuttlecock hacky sack. As darkness descended they moved outdoors to experience a pair of activities enjoyed by Koreans on the night of the first full moon of the year—daljip taeugi, burning sheaves of pine twigs, and jwibulnori, spinning cans filled with flaming kindling. The evening’s festivities were a novelty that even Korean city dwellers don’t often get to experience these days. As the dancing flames licked the night sky, the classmates’ faces were lit up with beaming smiles to match.
  A feast of food and fun, the day’s itinerary afforded the classmates a true taste of meokbang as they prepared and dined upon a selection of classic Korean dishes, while savoring the opportunity to experience more of Korean culture and rural life.

KFVN Reporter Mun Ji-young

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