Yeongam-gun Hosts Tteokguk Making Experience with Foreign Residents

Prepared to Understand Korean Culture and Approach More Familiarity

The Foreign Resident Support Center in Yeongam-gun, Jeollanam-do (Director Jeong Dubae) held a rice cake soup (tteokguk) making experience for foreign residents on the 4th, ahead of the Lunar New Year.

According to the county on the 7th, this experience was organized to help foreign residents such as migrant workers and marriage immigrants understand Korean culture and feel more familiar with it.

A rice cake soup-making experience for foreign residents is being conducted.
[Photo by Yeongam-gun]

At the event, a center official explained the origins of the Lunar New Year holiday and tteokguk, and the participating foreign residents made tteokguk and enjoyed eating it with kimchi.

Additionally, foreign residents from various countries introduced their own hometown holidays, providing an opportunity to get to know each other.

Foreign residents who made tteokguk for the first time responded positively, saying it was good to have a chance to understand family and Korean culture and to make traditional food.

Director Jeong Dubae said, “I hope this event becomes an opportunity for foreign residents to live more comfortably in Korea,” and added, “We will create and implement many programs to support the increasing number of foreign residents in various ways.”

For detailed information on support for foreign residents, please contact the Yeongam-gun Foreign Resident Support Center.

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