Riches- 1. Meat

Basic Info: 

Different types of meat displayed at the butcher shop

Meats have different types, such as beef, pork, duck and chicken. Almost all the parts of the meats are edible and have high calories. However, they produce a large amount of proteins that provides us healthy nutrition. Sometimes eating meat help people to stay healthy. For example, the shanks of the cow provided calcium when it was boiled in a soup (not separating the bone), one part of pork prevents the geriatric disease and the oil that is produced from the duck meat is known as healthy. 

History: 

Only the nobles or any other rich people used to cook meats on burning charcoal fire, spice them with soy sauce, eggs, scallion, garlic and spice. For peasants they had to use animals for farming that the law forbade them from killing them. However the wealthy people sometimes killed the animals without others knowing since they had money which equaled to power. The most valuable and expensive meat was beef. Cows were the main source of farming the land and they did not give birth to many offspring at a time unlike pigs or ducks. Our ancestors ate various parts of the precious animal. Conversely for pork, they only ate parts without the fats. As for the ducks, during the era of 3 kindgoms this particular meat was served to the king. 

By looking their clothing and their hats it is clear that these people are  from the upperclass. 

CCOT:

In the past, pork was considered as most unpopular type of meat. The pigs were fed with left overs of humans, rice bran, barely bran, left over from making tofu etc. However Koreans today look for pork. The most prominent type of pork is "sam gyeb sal" meaning 3 layers of meat- the part where bits of fats would be included between the meats. Koreans find that this particular meat is very savory and chewy. Another change would be when our ancestors cooked the meat they would have used the lid of kettle but today people came up with various other ways to cook pork to add more incense and taste (for example cooking them in a bamboo container).  

Experience: 

I have been to many restaurants that served meat. There were the ones dripping with sauce and the ones nothing added on to them. Personally I prefer the ones that had been dipped into the sauce because the gravy from the meat and the salty sauce becomes perfectly balanced that it's neither salty nor too plain. In meat buffet restaurants they had types of meats that the kids would like- sausages and hamberger steak. I recommend people not to eat those because they only fill up your stomache that you don't get to enjoy other juicy meat that you can only enjoy in Korea.