Summer swelter: Korea's hottest season begins
Published: 20 Jul. 2025, 18:22
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- MICHAEL LEE
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![People line up outside a restaurant specializing in samgyetang — a traditional ginseng chicken soup — in Jongno District, cental Seoul, on July 20. The day marked chobok, the beginning of the hottest season in the Korean lunar calendar, when eating samgyetang is believed to to fortify the body against the sweltering heat. [NEWS1]](https://koreaseafood.online/data/photo/2025/07/20/b01004e4-0860-4a8a-877f-720e1be82b73.jpg)
People line up outside a restaurant specializing in samgyetang — a traditional ginseng chicken soup — in Jongno District, cental Seoul, on July 20. The day marked chobok, the beginning of the hottest season in the Korean lunar calendar, when eating samgyetang is believed to to fortify the body against the sweltering heat. [NEWS1]
People line up outside a restaurant specializing in samgyetang — a traditional ginseng chicken soup — in Jongno District, cental Seoul, on July 20.
The day marked chobok, the beginning of the hottest season of the Korean lunar calendar, when eating samgyetang is believed to fortify the body against the sweltering heat.
BY MICHAEL LEE [[email protected]]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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