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"My mother's meals never stopped"…From the Janghang Smelter Guesthouse to Yunyoung Bapsang at Namdaemun Market
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- This is an interview article revealing that the roots of Yunyoung Bapsang at Namdaemun Market in Seoul began not with its 1998 opening but with Korean home-style cooking at the Janghang Smelter guesthouse in 1978.
- Kim Geum-rye, born in 1935, served Korean food to foreign buyers at the guesthouse for about 18 years, and her daughter, CEO Choi Eun-suk, opened the restaurant in 1998.
- Choi Eun-suk said she started the restaurant during the IMF financial crisis at her mother's urging, and that the experience of side dishes such as seasoned vegetables, stir-fries and kimchi was passed down to her daughter.
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Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): “어머니의 밥은 멈추지 않았다”…장항제련소 영빈관에서 남대문 ‘윤영밥상’까지
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