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오방색

Obangsaek — five colors

Blue, red, yellow, white, black — the old color grammar on a royal plate.

A plate as a map

오방색 maps directions and elements. Court and banquet cooks still chase a five-color bibimbap or namul spread. It is aesthetics plus folk cosmology, not a nutrient claim. Home cooks can steal the idea: contrast green namul, red kimchi, yellow egg, white rice, dark jang.