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When people talk about Korean food, they usually talk about dishes.
But what surprised me most was the table itself.

In this video, I look at the Korean dining table as a system and try to understand why it looks and works the way it does. Not from a guidebook perspective, but from my own experience eating in Korea and digging into the history behind it.

I start with the basics:
why Korean chopsticks are metal, why a spoon is always part of the set, and why Korea kept the spoon while many neighboring countries didn’t. This leads into how Korean meals are built around a combination of soup and non-soup foods, and how that shapes both the table layout and the way people eat together.

From there, I move into sharing culture.
Why so many side dishes are placed in the middle, why food isn’t really owned by one person at the table, and how this collective way of eating shows up in everyday behavior.

The last part focuses on ssam imagine wrapping rice, side dishes, and protein into a single leaf or sheet of seaweed and eating it in one bite. I look at where this practice comes from historically, why it mattered in the past, and why it’s still such an important and recognizable part of Korean food culture today.

This isn’t meant to be a complete history lesson or a food guide. It’s an attempt to connect everyday experiences at the table with the cultural and historical logic behind them, and to make sense of things that initially felt unfamiliar to me.

Sources

Wikipedias:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsticks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goryeo

wiki imiges:
By FiveRings at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By 국립국어원, CC BY-SA 2.0 kr, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Other sites:
https://books.google.nl/books?id=GvjP...
https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E...
https://web.archive.org/web/202111272...
https://www.koreascience.or.kr/articl...
https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E...
https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E...
https://folkency.nfm.go.kr/kr/topic/d...

Music:
Cylinder Five - Chris Zabriskie
Cylinder six - Chris Zabriskie
uWu Victory - Rod Kim

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