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A Survey on Practices and Attitude toward Wedding Food among Housewives in Busan and Kyungnam Area  

Kim, Kyong-Myo (Japanese Restaurant, Paradise Hotel in Busan)
Kim, Kyung-Ja (Department of Food & Nutrition, Dong-A University)
Shin, Ae-Sook (Department of Hotel Culinary Arts, Yangsan College)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture / v.17, no.3, 2002 , pp. 240-251 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is to describe practices of and attitude toward traditional wedding food and the attitude of housewives toward the traditional wedding food in Busan metropolitan and Kyungnam province area. Data were analyzed from the convenient sample of 525 housewives collected from September 20 to September 28, 2001. As for the necessity of traditional wedding food, the most popular food was ebagee food, pebaek food, yedan food in order. Of the various kinds of traditional wedding food, table setting for parent-in-law was chosen as the most popular one. Sociodemographic characteristics such as education level and age were statistically associated with perception of traditional wedding food being necessary as a ritual thing. The respondents preferred rice cakes as wedding food to fishes, fruits, traditional sweets and skewered slices of seasoned meats. More than half of the respondents think current practices of wedding food is prodigal and has to be done in thrifty manner. As a ritual practices of wedding food were to be readjusted to the change of social custom depending on the degree of modernization. More than half (52.1%) of the housewives expected traditional wedding food should fade away. A conclusion was that it is necessary to develop modernized wedding food reflecting traditional wedding customs with economic costs.
Keywords
Busan and Kyungnam province; housewives; traditional wedding food;
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