Han. A simple word that has had many meanings over the years in the Land of the Morning Calm. There’s the Han River. The family surname. The shortened form of hana, one. Even Korea’s name in Korean is Hanguk. And that famous Korean concept of powerful sadness, which has no literal translation in English and …
It would be wrong in every sense of the word to maintain this blog without writing an entry dedicated entirely to Korea’s national dish, kimchi. It would be like leaving out the Eiffel Tower in a travel guide to Paris, or ignoring the conical hats in a description of Vietnam. So much of Korean life- …