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Yoon Sook-ja
Yoon Sook-ja (born June 6, 1948) is a South Korean cooking researcher and professor. Education and career She got her master's degree in Food and Nutrition at Sookmyung Women's University, and took her doctoral course in Food and Nutrition at Dankook University. She was the associate professor of Traditional Cookery at Baewha Women's University, and now she is the head of the Institute of Traditional Korean Food, where she is also a professor in the Department of Food and Cooking. Additionally, she is the head of the Tteok Museum. She has given presentations on Korean food in London. She was one of the people in charge of South Korea's return banquet at the 2007 Inter-Korean summit. Bibliography *1997, ''Our Kitchen Gadget'' (LIFE & DREAM) *1998, ''Korean Traditional Cuisine'' (JIGU PUBLISHING Co.) *2000, ''Korean Foods in Season'' (時節飮食) (JIGU PUBLISHING Co.) *2001, ''Korean Traditional Desserts : Ricecakes, cookies and beverages'' English translation from the Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sookmyung Women's University
Sookmyung Women’s University () is a private university in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1906, Sookmyung is Korea’s first royal private educational institution for women. The university's name is derived from the Hanja characters of ''sook'' and ''Myung'', which mean "elegant" and "bright" respectively. With its more than a century-long legacy and history, Sookmyung is renowned as one of the best women's universities nationwide. According to JoongAng Daily's 2018 university rankings, it has been ranked as the second-best women's university in Korea and is ranked nr. 20 on South Korea's list of best universities. Sookmyung Women's University has distinguished alumni in media, journalism, politics, governments, and academia. It has a highly acclaimed ROTC program. In 2009, The Republic of Korea's Defense Ministry chose Sookmyung Women's University as South Korea's first university to operate a Reserve Officers' Training Corps program for women. In addition, Sookm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanja
Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, which can be written with Hanja, and (, ) refers to Classical Chinese writing, although "Hanja" is also sometimes used to encompass both concepts. Because Hanja never underwent any major reforms, they are mostly resemble to ''kyūjitai'' and traditional Chinese characters, although the stroke orders for some characters are slightly different. For example, the characters and as well as and . Only a small number of Hanja characters were modified or are unique to Korean, with the rest being identical to the traditional Chinese characters. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore have been simplified, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding Hanja characters. In Japan, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sookmyung Women's University Alumni
Sookmyung Women’s University () is a private university in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1906, Sookmyung is Korea’s first royal private educational institution for women. The university's name is derived from the Hanja characters of ''sook'' and ''Myung'', which mean "elegant" and "bright" respectively. With its more than a century-long legacy and history, Sookmyung is renowned as one of the best women's universities nationwide. According to JoongAng Daily's 2018 university rankings, it has been ranked as the second-best women's university in Korea and is ranked nr. 20 on South Korea's list of best universities. Sookmyung Women's University has distinguished alumni in media, journalism, politics, governments, and academia. It has a highly acclaimed ROTC program. In 2009, The Republic of Korea's Defense Ministry chose Sookmyung Women's University as South Korea's first university to operate a Reserve Officers' Training Corps program for women. In addition, Sookm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1948 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the ''Union of Burma'', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President, and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published in the United States. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object. * January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop communal violence during the Partition of India. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanga Yorok
''Sanga Yorok'' (hangul:산가요록, hanja:山家要錄) is a Korean cook book written in hanja in about 1459 by the royal family doctor, Jeon soon. The work also incorporates descriptions of farming. The terminology means "records for farming villages". ''Sanga Yorok'' precedes by 80 years the book from Kim Yoo's Suwoon Jipbang. It deals with 239 kinds of cooking methods for liquors, juk, guk, tteok, desserts and tofu-related dishes. The writer, Jeon soon worked for medical care of royal family during Munjong and Sejo of Joseon to record another book, ''Sikryo Chanyo'', the first-ever recorded Korean book for dietary treatment. The importance of the writing can be found from numerous methodologies of dishes of 38 kinds of kimchi ''Kimchi'' (; ko, 김치, gimchi, ), is a traditional Korean side dish of salted and fermented vegetables, such as napa cabbage and Korean radish. A wide selection of seasonings are used, including ''gochugaru'' (Korean chili powder), sprin .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eumsik Dimibang
The ''Eumsik dimibang'' or ''Gyugon siuibang'' is a Korean cookbook written around 1670 by Lady Jang (張氏, 1598~1680) from Andong Clan, Gyeongsang Province during the Joseon Dynasty. The author was in the noble ''yangban'' class and the book is a manuscript written in hangul (Korean alphabet). ''Eumsik dimibang'' encompasses Korean cuisine in general and deals with various ways of storing foods. The book also contains 51 different entries related to traditional alcoholic beverages. It includes the earliest printed recipe for '' gwaha-ju'' (fortified rice wine). Since the book is the oldest and detailed cookbook written by a woman in Korean history, it is considered a valuable document for researching Korean cuisine. See also *''Siuijeonseo'', a 19th century Korean cookbook *''Gyuhap chongseo'', a Korean women's encyclopedia *Korean cuisine Korean cuisine has evolved through centuries of social and political change. Originating from ancient agricultural and nomadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domundaejak
''Domundaejak'' (hangul: 도문대작; hanja: 屠門大嚼) is a book of food criticism written by Heo Gyun in 1611. It is included in the '' Seongseobubugo'' (hangul: 성서부부고; hanja: 惺所覆覆藁) (a collection of 26 books and 12 volumes). This book was written during Heo Gyun's exile. He was exiled to Hamyel (now Iksan), a seaside district in Jeollabuk-do. While eating the coarse food there, he started to describe the delicious food that he ate before. ''Domun'' (hangul: 도문; hanja: 屠門) means the door of the butcher's, and ''daejak'' (hangul: 대작; hanja: 大嚼) means chewing something loudly. So the title ''Domundaejak'' means licking one's lips by the butcher's door, thinking of the meat that one cannot now eat. This book refers to 11 sorts of tteok, 30 types of fruit, 5 kinds of meat, 40 varieties of seafood, 25 sorts of vegetables and 5 other foods, for a total of 117 foods. It names those foods' ingredients' groups, names, specific localities of product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Bok-ryeo
Han Bok-ryeo (韓福麗; born May 13, 1947) is a researcher of Korean royal court cuisine. She was born in 1947, the oldest daughter of Hwang Hye-seong, also a researcher of Korean royal court cuisine. She studied for her master's of Horticulture at The University of Seoul and Food Engineering at Korea University, and she got her doctorate in Food and Nutrition at Myongji University. She follows after her mother who made an effort to systematize Korean royal court cuisine, so she contributes to its reproduction and modernization. For her success in these efforts, she won the official commendation of the Minister of Culture. She was engaged in developing menus and providing support at the Inter-Korean summit in 2000; she also was the consultant for the dishes served in Korean soap opera ''Dae Jang Geum''. She is now the director of the Institute of Korean Royal Cuisine and is running two Korean restaurants named 'Jihwaja' (지화자), and 'Gungyeon' (궁연). She was registered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suunjapbang
''Suunjapbang'' () is a cookbook written by Kim-yu (; 1481~1552) in about 1540, during the early period of the Joseon period of Korea. Regarding its title, ''suun'' (需雲) means ''dignified food culture'', and ''japbang'' (雜方) means ''various methods'', so ''suunjapbang'' means ''ways of making food fit for a man of refined taste''. Books one and two include a total of 121 recipes from Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, such as how to make alcoholic drinks. ''Suunjapbang'' consists of 25 pages, and its manuscript is written using Chinese characters. The second book is thought to have been added by Kim-yu's descendants. This book is considered to be an important document recording the food of that period in history. Composition In this book, there is a total of 121 recipes described. The front section seems to have been written by Kim-yu, and the latter part was written in a cursive hand presumed to have belonged to his descendants, so its recipes are divided into book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs used to pronounce them, and they are systematically modified to indicate phonetic features; similarly, the vowel letters are systematically modified for related sounds, making Hangul a featural writing system. It has been described as a syllabic alphabet as it combines the features of alphabetic and syllabic writing systems, although it is not necessarily an abugida. Hangul was created in 1443 CE by King Sejong the Great in an attempt to increase literacy by serving as a complement (or alternative) to the logographic Sino-Korean ''Hanja'', which had been used by Koreans as its primary script to write the Korean language since as early as the Gojoseon period (spanni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dankook University
Dankook University (commonly referred to as Dankook), abbreviated as DU or DKU, is a prestigious private research university in Yongin and Cheonan, South Korea. The university was established in 1947. It was the first university established after the National Liberation Day of Korea, and its original location was in Jongno District and Yongsan District (after Jongno), Seoul. Dankook University was ranked 148th in Asia by QS Asian Universities Ranking in 2010. Academics Dankook University has a global affiliate network of universities and institutes. * Study abroad programs at sister universities allow students to improve their language skills. Dankook University gives financial support and several academic credits. * Short-term visiting programs provide faculty, staff and students with opportunities to expose themselves to global standards. * International summer/winter schools are designed to welcome students from sister universities and non-affiliated institutions. * Global Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
