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[HanCinema's Digest] Food Lovers' Lane

Get to know your Korean side dishes with Beyond Kimchi, one woman is doing her best to keep dogs off the menu, Sue over at My Korean Kitchen shares a Luna New Year dish, and The Korea Times features the story of a North Korean defector who recently opened his first food truck.

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"The Top 6 Korean Side Dishes"

The first time you sit down to enjoy a Korean meal you may be overwhelmed by the number of side dishes around. Your table will be filled with small, at first unidentifiable, edibles, and you've just got to try them all! On that note, Holly lists the top six Korean side dishes, known in Korea as 'banchan'.

..READ ON BEYOND KIMCHI

"Korean Rice Cake Soup (Tteokguk)"

The Lunar New Year is nigh! My Korean Kitchen has been posting a series of recipes in preparation for this massive holiday, and in this post, the last one, has on its menu Korean rice cake soup; which is, Sue says, "a must have food on New Year's Day in Korea".

...READ ON MY KOREAN KITCHEN

"Woman works to keep dogs off menu in S. Korea"

Dog soup is a seasonal dish and not a mainstay of Korean cuisine (it's considered a "traditional delicacy"), but there is still a disturbing number of dogs being killed each year, and not always in the most humane ways. In modern Korea, eating dog has become less popular as animal rights rises and because of animal lovers like this who are trying to keep them off the menu.

...READ ON CBS NEWS

"Defector opens food truck in S. Korea"

To avoid starvation, Park Young-ho and his brother crossed the Tumen River in China when he was just a boy in search of a better life. This year he opened his first business: a food truck. "Selling food on the side of the road in sub-zero temperatures is not easy at all... Still, it was a hard-won chance and I am not going to let it slip away".

...READ ON THE KOREA TIMES

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