Samgyeopsal, the food that our country has devoured the entire planet!!
Until the 1960s, our country didn’t know how to eat pork. In a time when even a single grain of rice was precious, let alone meat, there was no pig farming technology, so the meat smelled a lot, and there was no butchering technology, so they started dividing the parts in the 1970s. So at that time, they say they mainly seasoned the meat and cooked it. But in the 1980s, as pig farming technology developed, They were able to remove the smell of pork,
At the same time, when the Bursta was introduced and people started to grill it directly over a fire, the consumption of pork belly, which is specialized for the taste, increased explosively. In foreign countries, pork belly was mainly used from the front and back legs, and the remaining parts.
As we ate, starting in the 2000s, we couldn’t handle it with domestic products, so we started to inhale all the pork belly that was left over from all over the world. We were enjoying our own pork belly party like that, but recently, with the K-pop and K-food craze, even in foreign countries where there were no cooking utensils, let alone grills, there are pork belly experts who eat pork belly wrapped in ssamjang. It’s really interesting to see foreigners eating ssam…ㅎㅎ