• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.136-152
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• 2007

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.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.353-361
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• 2003

This study was performed by questionnaire to investigate the recognition and prospect for Korean traditional Pyebaeck Foods. The subjects of this study consisted of 621 housewives in Daegu area. The results were summarized as follows: The most people(94.2%) had ever seen Pyebaeck refreshments before, and most had seen them in wedding halls(62.5%). The reason they do prepare Paebaek refreshments was “it's tradition”(44.9%), and they considered this tradition as a public moral. The peoples who had prepared Pyebaeck refreshments at home consisted 51.0% and those who had purchased at caterer was 59.5%. The reason for preparing the refreshments at home was usually “it's true-hearted”(48.8%) and the reason for hiring specialists was “it's more convenient”(38.7%). Opinions about cooking method were mostly “complicated”(79.8%), and the knowledge score for cooking methods was low in 2.80. 31.3% of respondents reported inheriting their recipes from their mother. 43.3% of the respondents thought it would be “transmitted only a part” on prospects for Pyebaeck refreshments. 31.5% of the respondents said the improvement plan should be “focused on development of various Pyebaeck refreshments with modern senses” and 30.4% that the industralization should be effected through “publicity activities and education about its excellence”. People had to experience the Pyebaeck in the right way and to understand its real meaning better in order not to consider it as an evil custom, empty formality and vanity.