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Korean Birthday

My birthday was a few days ago, and I have a few things to share about Korean birthday culture.

Typically we eat seaweed soup on the morning of our birthday.


    See the link on K-drama: WWW

    https://youtu.be/BC0Y8E8kA00



After we deliver a baby, every mother eats seaweed soup every single meal for months. There are a few reasons for that; 

1. We believe the seaweed helps replace the blood (especially iron) discharged during birthing. (We lose iron, helping oxygenation during birthing.)

2. It helps mothers produce breast milk.

As the symbolic meaning for that, we always eat seaweed soup.


There are so many kinds of seaweed soup, based on what kinds of ingredients we use, such as: abalone seaweed soup, beef (my son’s favorite), seafood, dried pollack etc.

This time, I made seaweed soup with beef and seafood.


Our dinner menu on mu b-day



Thoughtful bosses pack an instant seaweed soup with instant rice in a shopping bag and give them to their employees who live alone one day before their birthday, which is a touching gesture for single people (싱글족 - Singgeul jok).



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