Families from South and North Koreas share dishes at reunions [PHOTOS]
By Jung Da-min, Joint Press Corps
Despite 70 years of separation, people from the two Koreas seemed to share the same taste in food.
At the inter-Korean family reunions held over the week ― the first round from Monday to Wednesday and the second from Friday to Sunday ― participants shared dishes from their hometowns, including kimchi and traditional teas.
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| The menu card for a lunch box provided by the North on Saturday at a resort on Mount Geumgang reads: butter bread, kimchi, cold steamed chicken, deep-fried shrimps, stir-fried cucumber, roasted Atka mackerel, stir-fried pork and vegetables, stir-fried eggplants with oyster-seasoned soy sauce, rice wrapped in perilla leaves, Korean melons and ginseng tea. Yonhap |
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| The lunchbox delivered to family reunion rooms on Tuesday, the second day of the first round of reunions at a resort on Mount Geumgang. Rice cakes in three colors and stir-fried Geumgang mushrooms were included. Yonhap |
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| Family members share North Korean snacks during the reunion on Tuesday at a resort on Mount Geumgang. Yonhap |
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| South Korean family members pack snacks and instant noodles for their North Korean family at Hanwha resort in Gangwon Province, Thursday, a day before the second round of reunions. Yonhap |
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| Dinner prepared by South Korea is set up at the welcoming dinner on Friday, the first day of the second round reunions at a resort on Mount Geumgang. Sixteen dishes, including stir-fried glass noodles and vegetables and vegetable pancakes in three colors, were on menu along with popular South Korean drinks. Yonhap |
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| A North Korean man waits for elevator as he carries gifts for a family member from South Korea on Saturday, the second day of the second round reunions at a resort on Mount Geumgang. The gift box on the top contains the mushroom Fomitella fraxinea, known for strengthening immunity. Yonhap |
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| Family members from the two Koreas make a toast with North Korea's Inpungsul wine at a welcoming dinner hosted by North Korea on Monday, the first day of the first round of reunions at a resort on Mount Geumgang. Mung bean jelly naengchae (chilled vegetables) and assorted rice cakes are among the dishes on the table. Yonhap |
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