HISTORY OF RAMEN IN KOREA

By: Kim, Hyoun Min of 11J

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People always crave for something new and tasty. I would like to introduce the food, Korean ramen.  Well, ramen originated from China and is known as a Japanese dish. If there are 2 east asian countries eating ramen we can never forget about Korea. According to the World Instant Ramen Association, an average of 74.1 bowls of ramen is consumed by each person in Korea every year in a study in 2014 which ranks top 1 in the world. 

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This may be because after the world war II, Korea had a big food shortage. Due to this food shortage the chairman of the Samyang Company thought of a way to stop this crisis. This is when the chairman thought of selling ramen to the country. It was in 1963 when the Samyang company first introduced ramen to the country and it was worth 10 won which almost anybody could afford. Many netizens of the country appreciated Samyang's effort to stop the food crisis of the country. Typing comments like "Our country's first ramen, It's really cheap!" 

Now, eating ramen in South Korea has become a lifestyle and a really popular food that everybody would know of. 

p.s. I wrote this article to spread awareness to the people of Korea and people who love and enjoy eating ramen. I would like you guys to appreciate this simple but important food Ramen.

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My Trip to Chengdu

By Kim Chung Beom

My trip to Chengdu 

Traveling cannot always be simple. This is how I when to Chengdu.
You should always remember you need a Chinese visa when traveling to China.
It takes two flights in order to reach China from the Philippines.
Manila NAIA airport ~ Korea Incheon airport
Korea Incheon airport ~ China Chengdu airport
First before packing your things, check the weather. 
Korea was -8 degrees and Chengu was 7°C

1st day

I Ieft NAIA airport to Korea. It took me 4 hrs to reach Incheon airport. When I went out of the airport, I felt the pain of 8 degrees celcius wind maybe because I was used to the weather here in the Philippines. 

I headed to my home town before leaving to China because my flight between Korea to China had almost 14 hrs free time. If you are in my situation I recommend visiting 

Hong-Dae since it's only an hour away from the airport. 

After few hours of free time I came back to the airport and prepare to leave for China Chengdu

Going to China Chengu only took 1 hr from Korea Incheon.

I finally arrived in in Chengdu airport around 10 pm. I was so happy to be in China but it was still so cold.

Before heading to my hotel me and my team decided to visit McDonald. Chinese people pronounce it as "Mac Dang-lau"

The McDonald in China was actually really good and the price was similar to McDonald here.

2nd day

We when to a mountain where we saw 3 different tourist attraction at once.

There was a beach, German town and a 100 year old church.

The other days were well spent and I had to go back to the Philippines.

Like how I went to Chengdu, i did the same going back. I had to visit Korea first before going back to the Philippines.

Just to add up,there are a lot of things to eat in Incheon airport and this is one of them

This was my trip to China Chengdu and Korea