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향토 음식
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향토 음식

Regional schools

Jeolla abundance, Gyeongsang salt, Gangwon potato, Jeju sea — a map, not a ranking.

Climate on the plate

Southwest Jeolla is famous for lavish banchan. Southeast Gyeongsang leans saltier, punchier. Gangwon highland cooking uses potato and buckwheat. Jeju is pork and sea. Seoul is a blender. Travel with this map: you are not eating “worse Korean” in a small town; you are eating another school.