GLOBALIZING KOREAN FOOD

The food above was served during one of the semester get-togethers!

These past two weeks I had to select restaurants within the confines of vegetarian (not in its strict sense) and halal. Had to search for hours every day and thanks to the project that I am involved with - I did learned a lot about restaurants, menus, places and everything related to 'eating in Korea'.

Many of us come to Korea with a very conservative image of 'food choices'. I must say that please, be open minded because here nobody will go hungry and the country has almost all the choices (from wherever u are) for everyone who plans to visit or is visiting Korea. I will only say that Korean Cuisine is diverse, tasty and beautiful too. :-)

What has the government as well as the media been doing about globalization of 'Korean Cuisine' project you can read in the article here.

One very interesting piece of news was in KT about CJ Foodville, the country's leading food service company, who have launched a bibimbap-specialized restaurant Bibigo, with an eye firmly gazing on the overseas market.

The highest number of visitors coming to Korea belong to China and Japan and hence one Chinese Newspaper highlighted on Korea's growing investment on globalizing of Korean food. The article, though published in 2009, can be read in full HERE and gives an idea of how things are moving in this sphere.

A comprehensive list of VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT IN SEOUL.