not something wrong, but something different

You wanna go to the restaurant and try some Korean foods? Well, let me think.
Yes! I've got something, but you may not like it. The thing is;

보신탕(Dog meat soup), A very special Korean food.

What do you think? You hate it? Yes, I understand. But I want to tell you about the real Korean-dog-eating-culture, which you might have misunderstood so far, and I think, after hearing it, you may feel like trying, don't you think so? Then, tonight would be the very special moment in your life, wouldn't it? :)

At first, let me tell you "the History of 보신탕 in Korea".

It was a very long time ago that our ancestors started eating dog, and, when cho-sun dynatsy, 보신탕 became very popular. Since that time was the agricultural age, people worked with cows, which were very expensive to buy, so they couldn't eat them. Instead, people ate dogs that were the only farm-raising-animals for having protains.
What's interesting is that our ancestors also had some kinds of dogs that they never ate as we do now; think about puppys in many houses today. we never eat them. They called them "구(狗)" and called the edible ones "견(犬)", which means, they were not that mean to eat what thay lived with as other country's people think.



What's more, 보신탕 is well-known for a high nutritive and healthy food.
It has lots of protains and is 10times easier to digest than pork or beef, and The oil of dog meat contains very little cholestarol so people can eat it with no worrys about the adult-disease.

We eat the dog meat seasoned (무침-seasoned dog meat) as well as boiled(보신탕).

무침 is a very nice side dish with race or even with drink. People drink 소주 or 막걸리, which are Korean traditional drinks, with the 무침.

Well, as you know, dog eating culture of Korea could seem very weird, disgusting or even cruel to some people who have the ethnocentrism. I totally disagree with them not because I eat 보신탕, but because I think it's not something wrong, it's just something different. If they don't accept the difference, at least they shouldn't blame on it for such an unreasonable reason like, as a Franch woman said, "How can you Korean people eat dog that is like our family".
I don't want to blame them, but I'm just wondering that how Franch people can eat beef that is like a God for Hindu.


So, that's all about 보신탕. What do you think? Are you gonna try it?
It's up to you.