Korea- The "True Nation of Food Delivery"

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What?

The term "Baedalue Minjok", is an ancient term meaning "The people of the Baedal". Basically, that's what the ancient Koreans called themselves to elevate themselves among the other ethnic groups. Baedal, is the nation in which Hwanung came down from Heaven and made. (Remember Creation of the Nation?)

Well, that shouldn't get confused with "The people of delivery" or "fast delivery". South Korea is one of the few countries where you can get McDonald's delivered to, well, almost anywhere in the country. And an app/company,  "배달의민족" (The people of Delivery), has the list of almost all restaurants in the nation, that has delivery service. No interest. 20 million people have downloaded the application.

See, many people in Korea like to have food delivered. It's usually a free service, and others, well a free service if you order more than a certain amount of cash. (McDonald is 30,000 Won, or around $30 USD)

You know those Korean-Chinese restaurants across Koreatowns in LA, NY, Vancouver and Toronto? Well, they're one of the popular choices for delivery, even if many people just eat it at the restaurants.

Anyways, I'll give out more tips about restaurants, and how their services are awesome here in Korea.

And don't forget for pizza.

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Oiljang 오일장: Korea's Unique Food Market

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Wait. It's already the 27th of October? How many days have passed since my last post... oh.
Well, I'll do my best to come back on schedule... But this is all I could post for now. Sorry!

This market is not made out of oil. And no, it is not a economic race for gas companies. Oil means 5 days. And I'll explain where that name came from. 

오일장, or the 5-day market, is a tradition that continues to this day on many countrysides across the nation. It is a place, in which a bunch of people selling food... sells food every five days. They are individuals, who stay for hours on a stool or sitting on newspaper, selling things.

Photo from the Korean Tourism Organization (한국관광공사), a government-based institute

Oiljang originated from salesmen who didn't know the calendar thousands, and I mean thousands of years ago, and decided to meet every 5 days.

Personally, I can describe the people selling food on these street markets very kind. Without measuring weight, they always give extra food (And once gave me tons of free food :D). This is called "정", or Jung. It is something similar to the English term "Sympathy", however the same thing done to strangers. "정", has no other word for it in any language on Earth. It is a simple, Korean term. And that's one thing I love about Korea.

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Kimbop (김밥), Symbolism of Korean Food

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BEHOLD THE GIMBOP! (Or kimbop.)

Kimbop. Literal translation: Seaweed Rice, or seaweed meal. Many people think seaweed is just some kind of green stuff in the ocean, but if you cook it twice, and brush some sesame oil and salt onto the seaweed: It's fabulous. Now with that, Koreans made the delicious food favored in picnics. (Cause it's not really like a full meal.)
The main ingredients can differ; of course, you need to have cooked seaweed and rice (COOKED, of course!) Then you can add ingredients like cheese, kimchi, tuna, ham, and cooked eggs.

The ingredients and the wooden mat.

How to make your gimbop:

1. Cut all the ingredients (excluding seaweed and rice) into a long rectangular shape. save the other pieces for more gimbop ingredients.
2. Place the ingredients on the rice, which will be spread around a huge piece of seaweed, which shall be on a wooden mat.
3. Roll the wooden mat for a few minutes.
4. Then cut that roll you have in front of you (10 would be fine.)

And there you have your gimbop!

Since you can choose your ingredients, gimbop has been always popular, fun to make, and diverse. In fact, Korea gave this idea to Japan about 1500 years ago, and that's how Sushi came out to the world!
In the late 20th century, sausage was an interesting and popular ingredient in gimbop; in modern days, there are a lot of kinds of gimbops, such as triangle gimbop (sold a lot in places in 7/11 and other chain corner stores like that.)

Also, there are things called "Gimbop Chains" which is kinda like a fast food restaurant, but the speed is between a normal restaurant and a fast food chain, and it isn't fast food. There are 45,400 of these in Korea, mostly near schools where students can go eat stuff after school.

Have fun making Kimbop!

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