Soybean dipping is likely to be listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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If you're a Korean, it's not easy to think of a table without soybean paste, soy sauce, or red pepper paste.

Soybean paste, which has been with our long-standing food culture and has preserved the health and identity of Koreans, is expected to be listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Reporter Park Soon-pyo's report.

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By brushing off the fermented soybean lump that has been floated throughout the winter, jangdam-making begins.

Carefully put the cleanly turned fermented soybean lump in the earthenware and pour salt water.

The salt concentration that makes the intestinal taste the best.

Finally, add peppers and charcoal heated red to remove germs.

Lunar New Year is the best time to make markets after two months and 15 days of floating fermented soybean lump.

[Park Byung-taek / Soybean paste making instructor: One month for floating, then one month for drying the outside, and 15 days for washing and drying. This fermented soybean paste makes it taste natural without needing preservatives.]

Our traditional market is catching the taste of the world with kimchi on the Korean Wave.

The head of an evaluation organization under UNESCO's Intangible Heritage Committee also explained that it forms the basis of Korean eating habits along with rice and kimchi.

In particular, it was evaluated that it contributes greatly to food security and sustainable agricultural development while inheriting the sense of belonging and identity of families and society through soy sauce.

[Im Seung-beom / Researcher of the Heritage Policy Bureau of the National Heritage Administration: Korea's Jang-Making Human Intangible Cultural Heritage Application Review led to the recommendation of registration. If the results of the examination are recommended for registration, we expect it to be registered unless there is a special situation.]

Korea has 22 intangible cultural heritages of mankind, starting with Jongmyo Jeryeak and Jongmyo Jeryeak in 2001 and Mask Dance the year before.It is highly likely that the

dip will become the 23rd intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

The final list will be decided by the 19th Intangible Heritage Committee in Asuncion, Paraguay's capital, early next month.

I'm Park Soonpyo of YTN.


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