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Rice cakes in life
Tteok marks birthdays, New Year, shamanic offerings, and the subway snack.
Not one food
떡 is a family: coin 가래떡 for tteokguk, honey 약식, coated injeolmi, street tteokbokki. White tteok shows up at rites; red-bean tteok at birthdays to ward off luck-eating spirits. Cook the snack; remember the calendar.