Abstract
The purpose of this research was to determine the dishes most commonly served during various festive days. This research studied the habits of housewives in Seoul and In the Choongchung province who have children in high school. 1. Most of the housewives in Seoul graduated from high school. On the other hand. those in the Choongchung province graduated from elementary school in their education backgrounds. The monthly income ranged from 1,550,000 won to 1,190,000won to 1,190,000 won for the housewives of Seoul, and from 1,000,000 won to 1,490,000 for those of Choongchung. The nuclear family system was dominated in both areas and 63.8% of the housewives had a full-time job. 2. "Sulnal(The New Year's Day), Chusuk(Thanksgiving Day), Jungwol-daeborum(The 1st Full-Moon Day)" are among the festive days celebrated in 85% of the both areas, and "Yuwol-Yudu(6th, June), Chungyangjul(9th, September), Naphyang(8th, September)" were celebrated in 0.5%. 3. Traditional festive dishes with respect to the festive days were as follows. Tuckuk(rice cake soup) was a favorite food in Sulnal(The New Year's Day), Burum(Peanut,pine-nut, walnut, etc) in Jungwol-daeborum(The 1st Full-Moon Day), Samgyetang(chicken soup) in Dongji Songpyen(rice cake) in Chusuk(Thanksgiving day) and Patjuk(small red beans soup) in Dongji (22th, December). No significance was found in the number of dishes. 4. The Regional differences the festive days such as Sulnal(The New Year's Day), Ipchun(4th, February), Jungwol-daeborum(The 1st Full-Moon Day), Samwol-samjit(3th, March) Sawolchopail(Budda's birthday), Tano(5th, May), Yuwol-yudu(6th, March) Sawolchopail Budda's birthday), Tano(5th, May), Yuwol-yudu(6th, June), Chilwol-chilsok(7th, July), Suddal -gumum (The year's last day) were very significant 5. The festive days should continue. On the other hand, the menu(dishes) of the festive days should be simplified.hould be simplified.