Korea has a LOT of different kinds of food, most very different
from other countries. Korea is a peninsula in Asia, which means
it's a bit of land sticking out into the ocean near China and
Japan. Like most Asian countries, Korean meals involve a lot of
rice and noodles. Because they have so much coastline and not much
flat land, they have more foods involving fish than foods involving
beef. Every meal has a lot of small bowls of side dishes around;
veggies and tofu and stuff which you eat in addition to whatever
main meal you've got. These are called banchan. A common banchan is
kimchi, which is spicy fermented/marinated vegtables - usually
cabbage, sometimes cucumber or carrot. Korean meals most familiar
to westerners: ramen, which is a noodle soup; bi bim bhap, which is
a bowl of rice with some marinated veggies, egg and chili paste;
bul go gui, which is a barbecued beef usually eaten with rice and
wrapped in a lettuce leaf If you want to learn more details about
Korean food, try here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_cuisine
