ISSN : 1225-7060(Print)
ISSN : 2288-7148(Online)
ISSN : 2288-7148(Online)
Journal of The Korean Society of Food Culture Vol.28 No.3 pp.246-260
DOI : https://doi.org/10.7318/KJFC/2013.28.3.246
DOI : https://doi.org/10.7318/KJFC/2013.28.3.246
결혼이주여성 전통식문화 인식 및 교육방안
A Study on the Awareness of Traditional Korean Food Culture among Immigrant Housewives to Design Educational Plans
Abstract
This study examines the awareness of traditional Korean food culture among immigrant housewives in multiculturalfamilies, with the aim of introducing educational plans suitably designed for them. Our survey shows that Korean traditionalholidays most well-known to the immigrant housewives are New Year’s Day and Chusuk. Sambok and Chusuk are at thetop in terms of preference. Samgyetang, Ddukguk, and Ogokbab are among the best known festive food to immigranthousewives for holidays such as New Year’s Day, Jeongwol Daeboreum, Sambok, Chusuk, and Dongji; Samgyetang is themost preferred food, followed by Ddukguk and Patjuk. In addition, a vast majority of immigrant housewives who have everattended Korean traditional cuisine education programs found the need for such an experience, with the score of 4.16 outof 5. In addition, the survey shows the order in which the immigrant housewives want to learn: the recipe of Korean food(53.5%), followed by table setting and manners (16.5%) and then nutrition (15%). The recipe of interest for mostrespondents is the one concerning daily food (69.5%). And more than half of the respondents prefer cooking practice as adesirable educational method. The difficulties that they have when attending such an educational course are usually inabilityto understand the language, difficulty in identifying the ingredients (seasonal), and lack of cultural understanding. The mostpreferred educational method is direct lecture (71.5%), followed by written materials such as books and newspaper (10.5%)and the Internet (9.5%). Finally, strategies for promoting traditional food culture are suggested as following: developingeducational resources (31.5%), making various educational programs more available (25%), narrowing the cultural gap(22%), and improving the educational environment (21.5%). Therefore, this study proposes that there is a need to developand diffuse Korean traditional food culture first, and then provide many immigrant housewives with a variety of educationalprograms. It is expected that these efforts will solve the problems caused by cultural differences in the early stage ofinternational marriages and eventually contribute to the harmony in multicultural families.