Every year, Korean temperatures steadily rise during the summer months. This rise in mercury coincides with the rise of a popular icy dessert that Koreans use to battle the summer heat: Bingsu. All across the Korean peninsula cafes, coffee shops, and restaurants start putting out advertisements for this popular dish on storefronts, sidewalks, billboards, and even music videos. Continue reading
Food is a necessity, good food is a luxury, and jjimdak is an addiction. If you’re really in need of some jjimdak, then the South Korean city of Andong is where you want to be. Each year, Hedgers from all over Korea make a pilgrimage to this historical city for their ritualistic gorging on brazed chicken, noodles, and the sinful brown broth. Continue reading
The cuisine of South Korea is extensive. Some truly amazing food lies in wait around every corner and we take full advantage of this fortunate problem regularly. One of our favorite soups, haejangguk, is one that we seek out on a regular basis and we’ve been lucky to have a really good place about 100 feet from our front door. Continue reading
Recently, we took another short drive up to Suncheon, the city just north of us. We love taking day trips there as we are constantly discovering new things to see and do. This time, the game plan was to go to the Naganeupseong Folk Village just west of the city. Continue reading
South Korea loves its fast delivery culture. You can have almost anything sent to you or hand delivered for fairly cheap, including having yourself sent to work if you’re running really late for work and willing to cling to the back of a delivery scooter. Continue reading
Recently, we had another Instagram Challenge featuring Chinatown in Incheon. The challenge this week was so close that we gave it a couple of days in order to announce a winner. Well, for the first time, we have a tie! Both photos had the exact same number of votes, so for this week, I guess we are both winners. Click here to see both photos. Continue reading
Happy Seollal everyone! For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s the Lunar New Year! Here in Korea they celebrate by going home and being with family, much like Chuseok. We got two days off from work, our first break in months, so we decided to head into Seoul and celebrate! Continue reading
Food and service delivery is a big deal in many Asian countries, but it is hugely popular in Korea. You can have virtually anything delivered in this country, from Starbucks to your weekly groceries. We, however, have never really utilized the delivery options, instead relying upon home cooking and restaurant dining when we needed sustenance. There is also the small consideration of our terror when attempting to speak Korean over the phone. Continue reading
A while back we made a video of some of the delicious fish noms we had while in Busan. We have often been asked what the food is like here in Korea, so we have decided it was time to start making some more food videos. We will be doing these posts a couple of times a month. We are excited to share even more of Korean culture with you as well as some of our favorite things to eat in Korea! We hope you all enjoy newest section of our blog, Korean Noms! Continue reading
Noms – (n). Any yummy substance that people chow down on to achieve pleasure and satisfaction. Can be referred to as nomming or om nom nom to mimic the sound one makes while eating hungrily. Continue reading
Hedgers Abroad 