A Study of the Housewives' Perception Level on Wedding Food in Busan & Kyungnam Area

부산.경남 지역 주부들의 전통혼례음식 인식 정도에 관한 연구

This study was carried out to survey the degree of the perception and necessity of wedding food prepared by housewives. The participants of the survey were 331 housewives lived in Busan and Kyungnam area. The findings could be summarized as follows: The housewives lived in Busan and Kyungnam area had evaluated the necessity of wedding foods, Paebaek foods or Yedan foods. The respondents of 36.6% answered that they will order wedding foods from specialists, whereas 28.7% said that they will prepare them by themselves. More than half of the respondents(56.2%) thought that current wedding foods were prodigal and have to be done in thrifty manner. Broadly 46.8% of the respondents considered that the ritual practices of wedding foods will decrease steadily. A conclusion was that lots of participants had a negative view of wedding foods and pointed out the necessity of developing them to reflect traditional wedding customs with economic costs.