Tteok & Kitchen Utensil Museum

Infobox Korean Museum
name = Tteok & Kitchen Utensil Museum
떡•부엌살림 박물관


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established = December, 2002
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location = [164-2 Waryong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
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director = Yoon Sookja
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website = [http://www.tkmuseum.or.kr/ tkmuseum.or.kr]
hanja=떡•부엌살림 博物館
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Tteok & Kitchen Utensil Museum is a museum located in Waryong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Founded by Yoon Sookja, the chief director of the Institute of Traditional Korean Food (한국전통음식연구소), it opened in December, 2002. [cite news|title="Tradition, not old fashion but competitiveness (“전통, 낡은 것 아니라 경쟁력이다”)|url=http://www.newshankuk.com/news/news_view.asp?articleno=k20050914195747034814 |language=Korean |date=2005 |author=Park Gumi|publisher=NewsHankuk.com] The museum specializes in Korean cutlery with approximately 2,000 old Korean kitchen utensils from ancient "maetdol" (맷돌, grinding stones) to early 20th century kitchenwares on display [ [http://english.tour2korea.com/03Sightseeing/DestinationsByRegions/Depth04.asp?sight=Culture&sightseeing_id=182&ADDRESS_1=6142&ADDRESS_2=5540&konum=1&kosm=m3_1 English tour Korea] ] and exhibits 50 of Korea's nearly 200 types of "tteok" (Korean rice cake). [cite web|url=http://www.korea.net/news/News/newsView.asp?serial_no=20070323034&part=112&SearchDay= |title=Would tteok, or rice cake, by any other name taste as sweet? |date=2007-03-24|publisher=The Korean Overseas Information Service |author=Kim Hee-sung]

ee also

*Tteok
*Korean cuisine
*Kimchi Field Museum
*Korean Folk Village
*List of museums in Seoul

References

External links

* [http://www.jongno.go.kr/english/culture/museums_15.jsp Rice Cake and Kitchenware Museum ] at the Jongno-gu website
*ko [http://www.tkmuseum.or.kr/ Official site]
* [http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2008/03/135_21068.html Vive La Korean Food! Hallyu Revitalizes Culinary Tradition] at Korea Times
*ko [http://www.zoomin.co.kr/webzine/zn_webzine_view.asp?Thm_gcd_fg=WZTHEME&Thm_dcd_fg=105&nSeq=3151&Page=1&wField=&wString= Introduction to the museum]
*ko [http://weekly.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200506/wk2005063015344837070.htm Tteok & Kitchen Utensil Museum] at Hankook Ilbo