Traditional Cuisine Museum to Open at Korea House
December 19, 2005The Korea House in Chung-gu, downtown Seoul, tomorrow will open a museum of traditional cuisine, and hold a range of traditional events to celebrate its official opening.
The museum named “Traditional Korean Food Cooking Studio’’ was built to promote traditional food culture among Koreans and visitors from abroad, and to coincide with the “Slow Food Movement,’’ which encourages people to rediscover the flavors of regional cooking.
Different from other museums where visitors merely look at displayed items, the museum will offer a firsthand experience of cooking traditional food in its kitchen.
A class on traditional food will be given to visitors twice a day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., which will be available free of charge until the end of this month.
To put more traditional touches on the interior and exhibited items at the museum, MBC Art Center, which made the indoor sets and recreated customs in popular local television drama “Jewel in the Palace (Taejanggum),’’ participated in the museum’s construction.
In the celebration event of “The 1st Traditional Korean Food Festival,’’ which takes place from 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, visitors can participate in various activities and enjoy traditional performances.
In the event, they can make their own kimchi as well as enjoy a traditional fashion show and a small exhibition of foods and photos from “Jewel in the Palace.’’ In a small fair, visitors have an opportunity to sample authentic traditional dishes.
The opening performance is “samgomu (a dance with three drums)’’ by Park Chang-su, bearer of the Important Intangible Cultural Property for traditional dance, followed by a fan dance performance.
The final performance “samulnori (music with four kinds of traditional percussion instruments) invites audiences to join the fest.
The venue is within walking distance of the Chungmuro station on subway Line 3 and 4. For more information, call the Korea House at (02) 2266-9101 or visit www.koreahouse.or.kr, which displays in English, Japanese and Chinese as well as Korean.
Source: The Korea Times 4 Dec 2005
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What a drama!
Comment by Doan — February 4, 2006 @ 6:02 pm