Five to six years ago, Korean live fish and

Five to six years ago, Korean live fish and Japanese-style fresh fish were compared, and Japanese aged fresh fish were far more delicious. It must be aged. Also, it was known as the "standard of sashimi" that in order to taste raw fish properly, you have to dip it in soy sauce, not red pepper paste.

Recently, however, Japanese people know and enjoy Korean-style live fish, and the taste of red chili-pepper paste with vinegar, and makjang. Has Japanese food culture regressed? Or has the taste of raw fish, red chili-pepper paste, and makjang improved dramatically in Korea?

There is no right answer to taste. In this country, the foods that people feel ridiculously salty when they eat in Europe are the norm. Rice is the best. Koreans enjoy the texture and aroma of rice by cooking it in a thick and dry manner, but Spanish Balencians and Italian Lombardy, who mostly use rice as their main food in Europe, find it difficult to understand why they boil it. They think rice should be used as a canvas to create a variety of flavors and scents.

Especially when you eat risotto at a restaurant near the rice paddies on the Lombardy plain, the texture of al dente that they enjoy in rice is surprising to Korean standards. In our standard, people often enjoy risotto that is not just half-cooked rice, but more like raw rice. Koreans raise their eyebrows 100 percent and think it is "wrong," but by their standard, Korean-style rice is overcooked, poorly cooked rice.

There is no right answer to taste. This should be seen as a cultural phenomenon. Domestic institutions and companies are asking a lot of questions about the future direction of globalization of Korean food (why Korean food should be globalized except for now), but my answer is the same. When Korean cultural contents grow and become known, more people will enjoy Korean food even if they do not try to force them to globalize it. It is of little use to go out and say, "This is healthier (exaggerated or lied) or more delicious (also exaggerated or lied) food" with only Korean food. If you approach it from a cultural point of view and they start to enjoy our culture with interest, Korean food becomes global without having to exaggerate or lie.