Fried rice: Cheap & Easy!

• Easy to make in a short period of time.

• Since the dish is tasty it is typically served with danmuji and a small bowl of a kind of mild and warm soup such as miyeok-guk (미역국) or kongnamul-guk (쿡나물국).

• During the summer, dongchimi (동치미) can also be accompanied with the dish.

• Mostly the popularity of ‘kimchi’ fried rice (김치볶음밥) is reflected from South Korean pop culture.

• Byun Jin-sub (변진섭): a popular male K-Pop singer in the late 1980s sang a song titled “Wishes” in which he stated that the singers ideal girlfriend would be the one who cooks good kimchi fried rice.

• Taeyang (태양), another K-Pop soloist, also said in his 2010 song, “I Need A Girl” that his ideal girlfriend will eat the kimchi fried rice that he cooks.