08/12/2018
"Budaejjigae" is one of the most popular ones among Korean Stews. It is also called "Army Stew" because it has its own history of the origin. Can you make a guess? The history goes back to the Korean war... When the Korean war happened in 1950, the U.S.A army came to South Korea to defeat the North Korean and Chinese army and to prevent the communism from dominating Korean peninsula. At that time, the American soldiers put the hams and sausages that they usually have for meal into the stew and mingled it with Korean ingredients such as hot pepper paste and tofu, etc. This stew mixed with many ingredients from Korean recipe and American recipe became the "Budaejjigae" and is also called "Army Stew."
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