Good to see you. I'm very glad to be here. Whenever delivered a speech, I feel pleasure. Giving a speech is a very special, and meaningful experience. And from every opportunity I have gotten a lot things. Isn't it?^^; I would like to thank you for coming here, even though you might have exams in this week.
I will do my best not to make you regret. Let me get into the subject.
Do you remember my last speech? OK, I mentioned about the competitive power of Korean traditional culture, through a comic. However, today I'm on the opposite side of I was that time. I'm going to talk about dishonor of our country. As a example, I checked our traditional foods and their origin.
I'll give you a question. What is the food which stands for Japan? Do you know? Right, That is sushi or raw. Because Japan is a island. Therefore the fishing industry has been developed.
Look at the case of india. The indian don't eat any kind of meet because of their religion. As a result, they eat bean, milk, and yogurt to take in protein.
As you see, we can find many information from the food of some country.
Then Let's see our traditional food. The first one is 'mixed rice.' Do you like it? 00, when do you have this food? As for me, I make and have mixed rice if there were many side dishes and nobody ate them. Now, you would guess the origin of it. When mongolian entered into our country In Korea dynasty, our king escaped from the metropolis. At that time, there was not enough food to offer to the king. People gathered foods and mixed them with rice.
There is another opinion. When our country was a colony of Japan, Japan plunder Jo-sun of various metal things. As lost chopsticks, our ancients made 'mixed rice' Because they only had spoon. whatever is true, 'mixed rice' is the sign of our sad and tragic history.
Secondly, let's see the region of meets in Korean food. What is the regions do we usually eat? Do you know ‘조가네?’ This restaurant is famous for ‘순대국밥.’ The parts, that we eat are ear, lung, guts, liver and so on.
We have other foods. ‘소머리국밥,’ ‘내장탕,’ ‘꼬리곰탕,’ ‘닭발,’ ‘창란,’ ‘All kinds of 젓갈s,’ ‘족발,’ ‘닭똥집,’ and other foods. Generally other people throw away these regions. But why did our ancient try to cook with them. Because, our economic condition was so poor. Or they should offer delicious parts to a master race who controled our country, for example, Mongo, Japan and china. Now a days, some of them have been a little expensive and delicious food. However, imagine that what were they before being cooked. Then could think of eating them?
The third example is "사골soup." In france, soup is estimated as the poorest food. Because, the taste of stuff is diluted into a lot of water. As a result, We can't feel true taste of the stuff. In france, If someone ate the food which is diluted, many people would think that he or she is in extremely low economic condition. But in Korea, the soup is very popular food. In other words, we didn't have enough stuff to be offered to all the people.
And the last example is fermented food. "김치"is very famous thru the world as a food which stands for our country. Including “김치,” our country has various kinds of fermented foods. It explains our tragic story. As our territory was a battle field, lots of foods was spoiled. Our ancient searched foods from ruined house or kitchen.
Then, there was nothing to eat but spoiled foods. It is the origin of fermented food.
So far I talked about ashamed fact of our history. What did you feel? You couldn't believe it, or you wouldn't accept what I told you.
Ok I don't want you agree with what I said. I just want to let you know the opposite side. you have been learned our country is very great, very nice, or proud. Ok those opinions are also right. But don't let us be one-sided people. We have to have negative thinking sometimes. I mean, sometimes unacceptable facts are true. Then we should accept it as a truth, to overcome or correct it.
For example, some people dream of getting good mark, even though they didn't study. They believe in miracle. You have to take a look at everything carefully and thoughtfully. You already have an answer. But you just don't want to accept.
Have an opened mind. And have a objective view. That's what I want to tell you today. Thank you.