The worst vacation in 14 years..Wife Kim Min-ja participates as narrator of 'Korean's Table.'

Sep 25, 2024

The worst vacation in 14 years..Wife Kim Min-ja participates as narrator of 'Korean's Table.'



The place where the whisper of sunshine, the smell of the wind, and the calm commotion awaken the mind, the forest that is home to countless lives while preserving the time of nature! Just as the figure of a man leaning against a tree becomes a Chinese character '休', which means 'rest', people find time for 'rest' in the forest. Exclamation mark of taste discovered by people who left for the woods in search of commas in life! Time to go to a paradise full of life in the forest!

Today, Choi Bul-am, who walked nonstop, will go on his first vacation in 14 years, and his wife, actor Kim Min-ja, will participate as the narrator to tell the story of the forest. Kim Min-ja accompanied Choi Bul-am in the 100th special of "Korean Table" and appeared with junior actor Kim Hye-soo in the 10th anniversary special in 2021, sharing a special journey of "Korean Table".

▶ The nomadic peoples of the forest, Jeongseon Duwibong herbalists' autumnal celebration? Nam-myeon, Jeongseon-gun, Gangwon State



Jeongseon Duwibong Peak, which is 1,466m above sea level, is so high that spring greens, eosuri, start to appear only in summer. Lee Hyung-seol, a 30-year-old herbalist who lives up and down Duwibong Peak like his own, and his colleagues. While traveling on the rough roads where people do not travel well, they find 'Horseshoe Mushroom' on the trees, and among the sandfish, they also get Hongdeodeok with a good scent. In addition to the large wild ginseng that makes the sound of 'I've planted ', the Duwibong Forest is a treasure trove containing all kinds of precious things.

The natural cave, which was accidentally discovered deep in the mountains, is the best shelter for herbalists who live wandering through the forest. If you sit in a cave and wrap rice balls made of pickled deodeok in freshly picked fish sprouts, there is no paradise in the mountains



I looked for it because the mountain was good, and people were better. On the way down from the mountain, he visits his brother's house, called Duwibong Peak, and takes out what he got from the mountain. Pat the sandfish and put red pepper paste on it and bake it over charcoal, add all kinds of herbs such as jichigi and sewage together, and boil the pork meat. Even the purple mushroom soup, which was added to the taste of his former chef's hands, is a delicious meal of mountain men who take risks and live a hard life but have fun every day by making friends with those they met in the mountains.

▶ Live as a forest together 'Everyone's Forest' ? Donggye-myeon, Sunchang-gun, Jeollabuk-do Special Self-Governing Province



Lee Min-sun and Kim Seok-kyun, who live in a small forest with chestnut trees in Sunchang-gun, Jeollabuk-do, are deeply into the fun of picking chestnuts in autumn. Eight years ago, the architect couple, who built the dirt house, built a cottage and tree house with natural materials such as soil and rice husk on the hillside of the neighborhood, and created a shelter and playground for anyone to enjoy together. Many people gather strength and wisdom together to create it, and the name is 'Everyone's Forest' because it is a place where anyone can stay. There is no water, electricity, or gas in this forest. Instead, it is followed by the hard work of a person who makes Ongdalsaem, digs in the ground, and picks up trees.

I want to feel the forest intact, so I take the inconvenience, but I don't give up on the taste. Lee Kyung-ah, a forest cook, marinated pork belly with fermented yeast and grilled pork belly in a jar oven. Weed salad mixed with all kinds of wild plants in a sauce flavored with fermented vinegar and fermented liquid, boiled with tomatoes and thistle, and a glass of fresh coffee roasted over a firewood fire fills the table with happiness living in the forest. As if different trees come together and become a forest, we find the meaning of healing and care that the forest embraces, everyone who meets in unfamiliar places and lives on each other.

▶ Forest of my childhood, holding memories? Land-myeon, Gurye-gun, Jeollanam-do

Piagol in Gurye-gun, South Jeolla Province. There is a couple who have been protecting their hometown's old house for more than 40 years in a deep valley over 800m above sea level. Lee Jung-woon, her husband who does not know how time passes for catfish fishing at night and lives in the mountains to pick fruit for choppy fish during the day. He came back to his hometown because he missed the smell of the forest where he used to live every day when he was a child. His wife Park Jae-sook, who said she wanted to live in the city, became a living person while she met a man from Jirisan Mountain and lived adapting.



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