First lady Kim Hea Kyung hosted a tea meeting with Korean-Japanese artists on Tuesday afternoon at a convention center in Nara Prefecture, Japan. Kim has been actively using Korean cuisine as a form of soft diplomacy.
With soaring food prices and fading Confucian practices, the Chuseok harvest holiday's traditional meal with dozens of home-cooked dishes is becoming increasingly streamlined year after year. But the sweets that come afterward are enjoying a...
Hangwa, traditional Korean sweets, are packaged at a factory in Gangneung in Gangwon Province on Wednesday. The sweets are often exchanged as gifts for the Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb. 1 this year.
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