

Sookmyung Women¡¯s University Korean Food Institute is the only Korean food institute in University established to
conduct organized researches and instruction of Korean foods and to systemize scientifically, industrialize and
globalize them. With 67-year history of studying food and nutrition from Home Economics established in 1938, it
makes functional foods with Korean traditional foods, standardizes traditional cuisines, develops and
commercializes menu of traditional foods and provides education and experience programs.

Tradition of study on Korean foods has been handed down by its professors learning cuisines from the last court
lady Han Hui-sun(1889-1972, a first-generation expert in foods of the Royal court, Chosun Dynasty intangible
cultural asset no. 38)who had lectures and taught actual training of cuisines in Sookmyung Women's university
from 1955 to 1967.

With the food development laboratory equippedwith up-to-date facilities and equipments, the sensory laboratory,
cooking classrooms classified according to materials and functions, seminar rooms, a virtual restaurant for food
coordinators and future enterprisers and a traditional propriety room to experience traditional wedding ceremony
and religious ceremony, it performs organized researches and provides education programs based on them.

A museum of Korean traditional and antique households (Old kitchen), four cooking studios with different functions
(Beauty, Sense, Delight and Purity), cooking classes for children, a restaurant (Snow flower), seminar rooms,
a tea room, a outdoor restaurant and a laboratory for development of foods will work as cultural spaces to
experience and enjoy Korean food culture as well as practical rooms for studies and special education.
 
Recipe of Bulgogi, Japchae, Kimchi pancake, and Baechu Kimchi
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