Hello and welcome, everyone.
Please welcome today's very special guests.
Lee Bongwon, Park Eunhye, Lee Yeonga,
Kim Heechul, and Zhang Yuan.
Yesterday was Seol for the magpies
But today is our Seol
It's Seol today.
- Happy New Year. - Let's stop there.
It's funny to see you sing that song with a wig on.
You're such a funny man.
I think this situation is funnier.
Seeing Bongwon and Misun together like this.
I haven't seen you both together in a while.
- I haven't seen my junior in a while. - "Junior."
- You silly man. - You two live under the same roof.
But when Misun came in she said, "It's been a while"
and Bongwon just cleared his throat.
Today is Seol, Lunar New Year.
- Isn't it our most important holiday? - Yes, it is.
That's right.
I'm sure you can see for yourselves that
- we have some great guests. - Why are we here?
That's probably your most burning question right now.
I'll let Carbon Copies take over from here.
They'll tell you why you're all here.
Please laugh a lot.
- We tried this with three songs. - Did you?
- We changed songs twice. - Just for this.
Hello, we are Carbon Copies.
- We'll introduce our guests. - Let's begin.
Five, six, seven, eight.
Seoul, Incheon, Daegu, Hoengseong, China, aha
Where is my hometown? Is it Seoul? Lee Bongwon
Is it Incheon? Park Eunhye
Is it Daegu? Lee Yeonga
Is it Hoengseong? Kim Heechul
Is it China?
Bam bam bam bam, Zhang Yuan
- Please welcome our guests from all over. - Welcome.
- Thank you. - That was nice and short.
- Nice and short. - We hoped it to be longer.
Today's show is New Years in My Hometown Special.
Our guests are here to represent their hometowns.
- They're... - I feel so awkward.
- Do you? - Honestly, I only know Heechul and
- met the others for the first time. - He's Chinese.
- That Chinese man... - Zhang Yuan.
- The guys shared a dressing room. - That's right.
I visited their dressing room
and I felt like I was in Siberia.
- It was so frigid. - You chat in dressing rooms.
We didn't say a word.
Heechul only said hi.
You're all here to represent your hometowns.
- Were you born in Seoul? - I actually...
- I was shocked. - I think many people will be.
- I don't look like a Seoulite. - I got goose bumps.
- I'd never have imagined it. - I was born in Seoul.
Traditionally you name your parents' hometowns.
My father is from Geochang-gun in Gyeongsangnam-do.
- I see. - My mother is from Masan.
I have Gyeongsang-do blood, but I was born in Seoul
so I insist I'm from Seoul.
- Heechul has the looks of a Seoulite. - He does.
Bongwon, why won't you look in that direction?
- Why do you turn that way? - Misun is looking at you.
I think he's intentionally avoiding her direction.
That view is less appealing to this view.
- So Bongwon you were born in Seoul. - Yes, I was.
- How about you, Eunhye? - In Incheon.
I was born in a remote area of Dongducheon
but we moved to Incheon when I was five or so.
Did you go to school there?
I moved around, so ?I lived in Bupyeong and Yeonsu.
- Sangryeol and Gura... - Our schools were close.
You were Incheon's Joey Wong.
- Yes, Joey Wong. - Incheon's Joey Wong.
What do you think of Joey Wong?
- I'm a fan. - Do they look alike?
- Don't they? - Eunhye and Joey Wong.
Currently I should say you're prettier than her.
- "Currently." - I've never lived in Seoul.
- Not even once? - Really?
- Are you never in Seoul? - Unless it's for work.
My dad is from Yangpyeong, and my mom is from Incheon.
I now live in Bundang.
Do you prefer living in satellite cities?
- You avoid the capital. - She only works in Seoul.
- Her hometown and homes... - They're in Gyeonggi-do.
- I did a sitcom with you, Jaeseok. - You did.
You always bragged about living in Apgujeong-dong.
I had only just moved there.
I'm originally from Suyu-ri.
- That's right. You're from Suyu-ri. - I am.
- What did he say? - He said just this,
"Are you heading to Incheon? I live in Apgujeong."
He was trying to say he liked you.
- He liked you. - That was you flirting?
- To move to Apgujeong? - Yes, I did.
- Then he asked you out for ffee-co. - "Ffee-co".
- So we have a beauty from Incheon. - And from Daegu.
- Lee Yeonga. - Daegu is famous for apples.
- She was Daegu's Vivian Hsu. - That's right.
- You look like her. - Joey Wong and Vivian Hsu.
- Miss Apple. - You do look like her.
- Daegu women are pretty. - Were you born in Daegu?
I was born in Gumi.
I lived in Seoul for a while then moved back to Gumi.
A few years later, I moved to Daegu in fifth grade.
- That's where I grew up. - You went to school there.
You started eating apples in fifth grade.
- She's Miss Apple. - Look at her beautiful skin.
She was once called Daegu's Vivian Hsu.
That is how famous she was.
- Why, Heechul? - I've known her for years.
- You do look like her. - Had you never heard of it?
- We met in Seoul. - You met in Seoul.
- We met in 2002 when I was 20. - Did you?
- That's when you started dating? - Before my debut.
This is me being very quiet.
- He used to be on "Ssulzun". - I was on "Ssulzun".
He's a dangerous guy.
When we first met, Heechul was prettier than me.
- He was. - He was so pretty.
- His looks went downhill. - You're from Hoengseong.
Gangwon-do people are kind.
- Did you live there for a long time? - Yes.
My dad's family is all in Hoengseong
- and my parents live in Wonju. - Wonju?
Don't people say you look foreign?
My dad has really long eyelashes.
- Is he Korean? - Are your parents Korean?
Yes, they're typical Koreans.
What upset you, Myungsoo?
I felt bad for you when the article came out.
What article? I can talk about anything.
The one about you hitting Seolhyun's head.
When I saw that, I told myself that
you weren't the kind of person to hit a woman.
He used to be on "Ssulzun".
- You're bringing up old bad news. - I explained it.
He just recovered from that, and you brought it up.
- I feel sad thinking about "Ssulzun".
- It's on the same time as this show. - That's right.
- Why did you quit? - Why did you leave?
I already knew what had or was happening.
I got too stressed wondering when we'd cover it.
- There's the pressure. - That's right.
You're talking about your friends, too.
- It's people I know. - You're in an awkward spot.
- It's not an easy job. - It's not.
- You need to be thick-skinned. - It's tough.
So you're representing Hoengseong in Gangwon-do.
Also, Zhang Yuan is here.
Where in China are you from?
- I'm from Northeast China. - Northeast China?
- It's a 90-minute flight away. - 90 minutes?
- What's the name of the town? - It's Ansan.
- "Ansan"? - In Gyeonggi-do?
No, it's Ansan in China.
- Ansan in China. - That's what it is in Korean.
- Say it in Mandarin. - Anshan.
- It's "Anshan"? - Yes, it is.
I realized just how nice Mandarin sounds like.
I saw footage of Yuan broadcasting the news
during his anchor days on TV.
That's when I thought that Mandarin sounded cool.
Yuan speaking in Mandarin reminded me of Andy Lau.
Like Eunhye just said, you were an anchor in China.
The language I speak is completely different
from what Liu Dehua speaks.
- It's different. - Andy Lau is "Liu Dehua"?
- It's "Liu Dehua"? - "Liu Dehua"?
I thought you said "Liuk Duk".
- Pull your hair back. - Okay.
Oh, my hair was in the way.
I'll open my ears.
Yuan, could you say something like an actual anchor?
I'm actually taking Mandarin lessons right now.
Men sound really great, and women sound so sexy.
Please show us, Yuan.
This is "Happy Together", right?
I'll go again.
- Anchors say that, too? - That sounded nice.
I'll go again.
That sounds so nice.
- It's so cool. - It's the new year.
Da jia hao. Da jia hao.
- You sound great. - Your voice actually sounds...
I think my voice sounds better in Mandarin
- than when I speak Korean. - It's lower.
Korean and Japanese don't have tones.
Mandarin has four different tones.
Those are the four tones.
If you mess that up, no one can understand you.
Forget all that. I just see Andy Lau's face now.
- It's great. - I learned Korean from mostly women
so I sound feminine when I speak Korean.
He also looks like Lim Changjung.
Especially when you speak a foreign language...
- Lim Changjung. - Why did you interrupt Myungsoo?
- When? - I said he looked like Lim Changjung.
He doesn't.
- I got that a lot. - People said that to him.
- Have you decided to desert him? - No, I didn't.
- He admitted to it. - You used to respond.
Jaeseok, he admits to being a lookalike.
But I don't think he does.
- Infinite's L... - That's it, he looks like L.
- He looks more like L. - L from Infinite.
- I don't think it's Lim Changjung. - That's why I...
- He looks more like Infinite's L. - No, he doesn't.
When Myungsoo mentioned Lim Changjung, Yuan was like...
- I got that a lot. - "I look more like L than him."
You look more like Infinite's L.
I'm a foreigner, so I didn't know who Lim Changjung was
and I looked him up.
I felt strange when I saw his photos.
- Heechul thinks he looks better. - What about L?
I'm pleased.
Any man would feel the same.
Bongwon, it's been five years since you were last here.
Has it? I've never filmed on this set before.
- We filmed in the public bath set. - Yes, we did.
We tried to have him on the show many times
- but he's so busy. - I'm not really busy.
He's rarely in Korea.
- You went to the Himalayas. - I did that last year.
You also went to the Open.
That was also last year.
- He goes to the UK for the British Open. - Really?
He does a lot overseas.
Most of that requires spending money.
- Perfect. - The Himalayas.
I went to the Annapurna Base Camp at 4,520m.
I'm planning another trek this year.
It's to Mount Ama Dablam.
It's 6,851m so that's almost 7,000m up.
- Professionals climb 7,000m peaks. - It's dangerous.
- It's for professionals. - Do you go to the peak?
- I'll go to the peak. - Isn't that dangerous?
- With an oxygen tank? - No, I'll go without one.
- Just like that? - Are you okay with it?
Misun just found out herself.
- It's actually dangerous. - When are you going?
Excuse me while I brief my wife.
We rarely get to talk at home.
It seems this couple just pretends to get along.
Misun told us a little about this.
You have enough hiking equipment to supply a team.
- I have a whole room of stuff. - Like what?
I have backpacks of all sizes.
They come in 20L, 25L, 30L, 40L, 50L sizes.
The largest one is 100L. They're for different hikes.
- Even a coffee... - I make my own coffee.
- Drip coffee for high altitudes. - He's very picky.
- I saw him wearing a jacket. - A Gore-Tex jacket.
It costs 1,500 dollars.
Gore-Tex jackets are expensive.
While water can't come in, sweat has to go out.
He wears that almost every day.
- He has nothing else to wear. - It's expensive.
He has to make it worthwhile.
Which item costs the most?
It's either my sleeping bag or Gore-Tex jacket.
Sleeping bags cost 2,000 dollars.
-My jacket... -He sleeps in his sleeping bag at home.
Are you training at home?
Practicing to be homeless?
Eunhye was on our show fairly recently.
- You're the mom of twins. - Yes, I am.
- I remember now. - Is that so?
A lot of people didn't know you were married
until you talked about your twins on our show.
Most of the reactions I got before were
"Oh, you're really married?"
After the episode aired, I was in a drama that required
filming in the countryside where even less people knew.
- People said, "It's the twins' mom." - So what?
- It was a huge shock. - In what way?
- You do have twins. - Why was that a shock?
If people start remembering me as a mom of twins
what will that make me as a person?
You wanted to keep your own identity.
Is that why you asked us to call you "nuna"?
- She banned us from calling her a mom. - She did.
We can call her "nuna" but not "nunim".
Are you saying you want to pretend you aren't married?
Married actresses have fewer roles to choose from.
It's even fewer after they have a baby.
Having twins drastically reduced the number of roles.
Can you give us an example?
Directors used to be so apologetic when
they tried to cast me as a mom.
Now they ask if I can play a mom of a fourth grader.
They no longer consider you even a newlywed.
- You're a mom. - So I thought about it
and I realized that I'm older.
It's not because I have twins.
- I'd forgotten my age. - You're in your 30s.
- Late 30s. - I see.
"Late 30s."
- Your voice dropped. - It's so upsetting.
I understand. Although you are married with kids,
if someone calls you "ajumma",
- it feels very offensive. - It can.
Your response must change, then.
- If someone says "Eunhye"... - Then I say "yes?"
To "madam" I respond, "What?"
"What?"
I used to say "ajumma" to refer to myself
- but not anymore. - What, then?
I say "aunt".
One five-year-old started calling me "nuna".
- What then? - I let him. I was so grateful.
Let's talk to Yeonga now.
- She talked about her aquarium last time. - She did.
- She has 500 fish and a shark. - Really?
- On the floor. - Why a shark?
- How's the shark? - Are they still well?
- I got rid of them. - Why?
You didn't eat them, right?
I hadn't worked in a while, so I couldn't afford them.
- Did you sell them? - Financial reasons?
I had financial reasons and moved.
How much does it cost to feed them?
I was out of work.
- Fish don't each much. - How much does it cost?
The sharks actually eat
- frozen or fresh squids. - Squids are expensive.
Won't they eat fish food if that's all they've eaten?
They aren't like dogs.
- Dogs can eat dried food but... - Madam.
- Don't call me that. - Sharks can't eat fish food.
Dogs can eat dog food.
- Did you sell them? - No, I gave them to an aquarium.
- You donated them? - You gave them away.
How much does a shark like that cost?
The shark itself doesn't cost too much
but you can't keep one in a glass fish tank.
It has to be made with acrylic panels.
Also, it's harder to maintain sea water conditions.
Someone once asked, "Can't you just use sea water?'
It doesn't work like that.
You need equipment
- to filter nitrates. - You sound professional.
She was weird, but she got weirder.
- Why was she weird? - She just was before her debut.
She was just...
She was odd, but I never knew she had a shark.
I was surprised, too.
Yeonga, how did you and Heechul become friends?
- No, we aren't friends. - Aren't you?
Aren't you two dating?
I really don't like women like her.
- Seriously. - A strong denial is a confirmation.
What's Yeonga like?
I had to go on a variety show so
I was learning to dance from Black Beat's Shim Jaewon.
That was before Super Junior's debut
and that's how we met.
- During practice... - That's not when we first met.
Oh, it was before that.
We met in a nightclub in a hotel's basement.
Yeonga, you just...
Stop trying to hide your past.
Yeonga.
- At last... - Excuse me, I'm thirsty.
This could be alcohol.
She's a heavy drinker.
She felt cornered, so she responded with a high five.
She sat there listening to him talk
- until suddenly... - Was this before your debut?
Yes, I think it was back in 2003.
It was when neither of us knew we'd become celebrities.
She was dressed in black with her hair in a ponytail.
- You must've liked her to remember. - It's not that.
- She was pretty, then. - At the time
I had long hair, wore colored contacts
and flower-printed clothes to nightclubs.
- He wore cowboy hats. - Did he?
I was sitting silently in a corner
when she came up to me like this.
She danced like this.
- I'm serious. - Yeonga.
My friend introduced us, so I said "Hello".
"Hi, how old are you?"
I said, "I'm 21."
"Great, let's be friends."
- That's how we met. - Do you remember that?
I still go out to dance.
- So we decided to be friends. - But later on?
- She's actually a year younger than me. - Is she?
- Yuan, did you understand all that? - Yes, I did.
- He got the dancing. - Dancing is universal.
Languages are different but dance...
Did you stay friends even though she's a year younger?
- Yes, we did. - I don't really care about that.
Yeonga, how do you remember Heechul?
- He was really pretty. - Was he?
Did he have a pretty face despite the fashion?
I can't forget because he wore a pink shirt
- pink pants, and pink boots. - Really?
- A cowboy hat. - A pink cowboy hat.
- He could've passed for a girl. - All in pink?
My clubbing days' photos are everywhere.
I'll send your crew a few to put on screen.
So you were like cosplaying.
I loved bright colors like red and when we got closer
Yeonga used to say all the time that
it's a good thing that I'm manly.
- She said that a lot. - You just like bright colors.
Did women show you a lot of attention?
I think I just did whatever I wanted to.
I did what I like to.
- My fans complain a lot about my hair. - Why?
They post comments like "Please cut your hair."
"You look like my mom or aunt."
Korean fans comment on Korean SNS
and Chinese fans go on Chinese SNS.
They write that comment perfectly in Korean.
"Please cut your hair." They even make banners.
- It suits you. - Does Lee Sooman tell you to cut it?
He leaves me alone.
Whatever I choose to do, he says
- "You always are free spirited." - He's given up.
- He lets me choose the show to be on. - That's nice.
When I told him I wanted to be on "Ssulzun",
he asked me, "Are you sure about this?"
I said I was, but it was tough.
- He seldom smiles like that. - He's a sweet guy.
He felt embarrassed to talk about others.
Heechul, you refused to come on "Happy Together".
- Why? - Why?
For as long as I was on "Ssulzun",
I couldn't willingly appear on another variety show.
I'm bound to meet other people, and I have a conscience
- so I kept on refusing. - He's a nice guy.
Then one day Ji Seokjin from "Running Man" called me.
He and the producer asked me to come on their show
but I said I couldn't.
We'd talked about "Running Man" on "Ssulzun" before.
I said, "I'm sorry but I really can't be on your show."
After I mentioned the show on "Ssulzun"
and an article was published about it
- Jihyo was drunk and called me. - To say what?
She said, "Heechul, how could you say that?"
- I said the article was exaggerated. - What article?
"Heechul Doesn't Watch Childish 'Running Man'"
That's what it said.
This is what I actually said,
"Running Man" sometimes airs an episode
where they go back in time.
It can seem childish, but children love it
and that's why "Running Man" is popular.
I know how reporters twist your words so I was prepared
and I thought what I'd said sounded innocent enough.
Reporters are good at coming up with headlines.
That's their job.
Seokjin told me that the team doesn't care about that
so I went on "Running Man".
- I stood in the corner for a while. - Out of guilt.
Jaeseok came over to me during a break
and he said, "Heechul, it's been a while. How are you?"
I told him that I'd quit "Ssulzun", and he laughed.
I felt so much better when I told him that.
- When... - So we said this whenever we could.
"Isn't it childish?"
"Isn't it so childish?"
That's when Heechul started to relax around us.
I don't mind telling stories
but like Heechul said the articles...
After I was on the Parents of Twins Special
a reporter wrote about one of my sons being sick.
I was offended because neither of my sons was sick.
I'd only mentioned that one was weaker than the other.
The reporter had taken a heartwarming story
that could have warmed other people's hearts
- but said something hurtful. - So people will react.
For example, if I say to Saeho
"Saeho, you look like you lost a lot of weight."
- The headline says "Saeho Was a Pig". - That's true.
Calm down.
That's how Jihyo responded just from the headline.
It used to be worse. "Park Eunhye Will Marry."
People would be surprised.
"Eunhye Is Married to Acting."
- That's how they promoted dramas. - That's right.
It's as if she said, "I want to marry my job."
Yuan, it's been...
Has it been five years since you left China?
I came here at the end of 2010
so I've been here for five years now.
Why did you come here? As an exchange student?
No, I actually worked in Beijing.
- Broadcasting... - It's a very stable job.
Many people would envy you for it.
It was hard because it was so stable.
All I did was work, and I was also a new employee.
I only slept two, three hours a day.
That was all I did for a whole year.
It was so stressful.
Everything was broadcasted live at the time.
I had seven alarm clocks.
- Seven? - It was that tough.
I could only sleep for two, three hours.
I had seven because I was scared I couldn't wake up.
Why did you end up coming to Korea of all places?
There are a few reasons.
One reason was I'd made many Korean friends in college.
- Could you speak Korean? - No, not at the time.
At the time, there were about 400 students
who were from other countries.
- Over half of them were Korean. - That many?
There were many Koreans students
so it was easy to make friends.
- Many girls, too? - Girlfriends?
I did have a few friends.
Girlfriends.
I can tell he would've been popular.
- I lived with a friend for a year. - A girlfriend?
It was a guy. There were two rooms.
We had separate bedrooms.
Did you see us all swoop in?
We were expecting to get 20 minutes worth of footage.
What then?
After about a year of living together
I learned a lot and fell in love with Korean culture.
Are you in touch with Korean girlfriends you met there?
- Even now? - What do you mean?
Korean girlfriends you met in China...
You're pretending you didn't understand.
I have Chinese friends
who usually speak very fluent Korean.
If someone asks an embarrassing question,
they say, "I don't know."
"What? Heechul, what does that mean?"
It was a very simple question.
Do people in your hometown know you're popular?
- My relatives watch the show. - Do they?
My younger female cousin loves it so much.
When I went to my hometown last time,
she traveled 20 hours by plane and train to visit.
I was so pleased.
It turned out she wanted to meet Julian.
Not me.
She traveled to see Julian, not her own cousin.
- I was so upset. - He was upset.
- That's funny. - I heard something.
Yuan knows he's pretty famous in Korea
- but he's excited to meet you, Jaeseok. - Really?
- Why? - Yes, why?
When I was a freshman in college,
- there was a Korean variety show "X-Man". - "X-Man."
I loved that show so much.
- Did you watch it in China? - How?
I watched the episodes online
but I could watch them six months after it aired.
- Six months... - It took time.
Myungsoo was also on the show.
Kang Hodong and Myungsoo, too.
Are there people like me in China?
Do you have comedians who yell like I do?
You don't even have celebrities who look like him.
There's no one like him in space.
I met him in person only today.
I had no idea he had such a small face.
- It's small? - You thought it was huge?
No one has ever said that to me.
Do I have a small face by Chinese standards?
Someone like him should've been the lead in
"My Love From the Star."
- Aliens usually... - They'd look like him.
Myungsoo should've been the lead, not Kim Soohyun.
I visited China while I was on "X-Man".
The guide told me 200 fans had come to the hotel
and I didn't believe him.
I don't even have that many fans in Korea.
He told me to come outside and when I did I saw
two busloads of people yelling.
- What did they yell? - I ran away. It was unnatural.
Six ladies brought a bouquet at the airport
and they sang my song "Prince of the Sea".
You're lying.
- Don't lie. - They really sang for me.
- Really? - He was so touched.
- It's true. - Kim Gura and Lee Hwijae
felt embarrassed.
- It would never happen here. - Never.
- China is a big country. - There are strange people.
The population is so large.
We included Yuan to represent your hometowns
because each region is unique.
Seoulites are often called city slickers.
- People say that. - I wasn't born in Seoul
- but you were. - I was.
I think Seoulites are independent.
- What do you mean? - Slick people are independent.
- Self-centered. - They don't cause a nuisance.
- They don't cause nuisances. - Or like nuisances.
Or like nuisances.
They don't accept help or help others.
They're individualistic.
Heechul, why did you fear Seoulites at first?
I came to Seoul to audition for SM when I was 20
and some of my friends tagged along.
One of them had done some research.
Was that your first visit?
It was our first time in Gangnam.
We were about to turn around to find our way when
one friend said, "We can't turn back in Seoul."
- Why not? - "We'll look unsophisticated."
- That was back in 2002. - Were you driving?
- You'd look lost. - We were walking.
Why can't you turn around?
We were walking along like this.
We thought we'd passed the road and were about to turn.
You'd look lost.
He said, "Don't turn around when people are looking."
People can tell.
- No looking around. - Then you look out of place.
SM's building is in Cheongdam-dong.
There are many luxury brand shops there.
I used to shop in the underground shopping centers
and if I bought a ten-dollar bag the shop owner said
"Which label? Gu...? Pra...?" I said anything would do.
- Fake brands? - They sewed fake labels on the spot.
When I got to Seoul,
I saw all the fancy shops and brands.
I thought, "Seoul isn't that great."
I can buy a bag like that in Wonju for ten dollars.
I had no clue they were actual brands.
Even now I'm not that into luxury brands.
Because my friend didn't let us turn around
even though we were in the neighborhood,
- we walked in a huge circle. - Turn left, right...
I remember being 30 minutes late to the audition.
- What then? - But they hired me for my looks.
It's a legend, so I won't say any more.
- You didn't even sing. - I sang the national anthem.
- He sang the national anthem. - Everyone knows.
- It's an SM audition legend. - You were so naive.
- You were confident. - I thought I was cool.
- Turning around wasn't allowed. - He was himself.
We talked about Seoulites being slick.
- What about Incheon? - The Incheon locals...
- The women are strong. - I heard that, too.
- I don't know about that, but we're stingy. - Right.
I heard a lot that we're stingy.
- Is there lime soda in the sea? -"Sea of Lime Soda"?
- Seo Yeongchun's song. - How do you know that song?
When you're a freshman in college
you introduce yourself, and I said I was from Incheon.
People always say, "You must go to Wolmido a lot."
- So I said... - It's a tourist hotspot.
We all know just a few facts about certain areas.
- So I said... - "Have you been to Wolmido?"
I'd only been to that island about five times
and that question annoyed me so much.
A Seoulite asked that question, so I said
- "Do you go to the Han River every day?" - True.
If they don't ask about Wolmido, it's Chinatown.
I heard about Chinatown after my debut.
I still haven't been there yet.
Even now I'd love to visit Incheon's Chinatown.
- Are Daegu and Busan's dialects different? - Yes.
Busan's is rough, and Daegu's is softer.
- Can you tell? - I think so.
I acted a character from Busan once.
Daegu people say "unniya". Busan people say "unniya".
I prefer the second one.
- I like that. - Say "oppaya" for your fans.
- Oppa. - Oppaya. Oppaya.
- How cute. - They're both sweet.
- Is the first one Daegu? - It's like...
Daegu is a basin, which is flat and stretches far
so they say "oppaya" like this.
Busan is by the sea, so they go "oppaya, unniya".
It's like tossing something out into the sea.
- It's a toss. - "Oppaya, unniya".
Can you say a sentence like "Oppa, are you free?"
- "How about dinner?" - Oppa, are you free?
- Is that Daegu? - I don't know. I'm confused.
I think Gyeongsang-do women are much cuter.
But when they try to speak like Seoul women,
they get the intonation all wrong and sound awkward.
- Does it? - It does.
- They mess it all up. - "Have you eaten?"
- The middle-aged women are hilarious. - How so?
They speak in a perfect dialect when they prep.
As soon as the cameras roll they go, "Hello."
"Do you see the chives here?"
- Chives. - "Try to flip them over nicely."
"Flipping them improves the flavor."
"I heard you aren't the originator of the recipe."
- "I'm the originator." - "Are you?"
"She's a complete airhead."
- "Now this is how you cook it." - That's so funny.
That's how they speak.
They try to hide their dialect, but it comes out.
- Heechul, you spoke in a dialect. - Did you?
- Hoengseong has no dialect. - In old TV shows...
- Really? - Of course.
Whenever someone moves to Seoul,
everyone asks where you're from.
Whenever I say Gangwon-do, people say "Modeureyo".
- "Modeureyo." - It's almost instinctive.
It's that and "You must've eaten a lot of potatoes."
- People said that to me all the time. - Corn.
Daegu has apples, Gangwon-do has potatoes.
Corn was called "okshigi".
- Is Daegu famous for intestines? - Cows' intestines.
- I realized that after I moved to Seoul. - Really?
People always asked if I ate corn and potatoes.
Then I turned 20, moved to Seoul
and was training at SM.
- I didn't realize I spoke in a dialect. - Of course.
Hoengseong and Wonju has no dialect
but they speak in an odd mixture of intonations.
I stopped speaking like that but when I call my friends
and ask how they're doing.
"I'm good. You're on TV a lot."
When I hear them talk like that
I wonder, "Oh, so that's what I used to sound like."
"Welcome To Dongmakgol" was a huge film in 2005.
"Modeureyo? Potatoes, sweet potatoes."
I disliked how unnatural and wrong the dialect was.
How do you speak, then?
- I forgot. - You got rusty.
When I first moved to Seoul
the SM staff laughed whenever I said anything.
If they asked what I wanted to eat,
I said, "Fried rice, please."
- But I have no recollection. - You're good.
- You still have it. - I don't.
You still speak it perfectly.
"I wish you all a happy new year."
The Gumi dialect is a bit like that.
- Really? - It sounds almost North Korean.
Gyeongbuk and Gangwon have similar dialects.
My grandfather is from North Korea.
I stopped speaking in that dialect
but when I call my friends to ask about their kids,
- they speak in the dialect. - "Come over soon."
I usually say I'm too busy to visit soon and add
"You speak in a dialect."
"You moron, so did you."
I'd forgotten that in Gangwon-do close friends
use mild swear words to show friendliness.
You fool, moron, idiot, silly, and others..
Hoengseong beef really is delicious.
- The farms are huge. - That must be it.
The cows eat grass.
- Anshan... - Bongwon is a know-it-all.
My nickname is Navong.
- "Navong"... - He knows so much.
He knows a little about a lot.
Yuan, would you say Mandarin is a dialect?
- Is it? - Yes, it is.
- What is it like? - It's so different.
My hometown's dialect sounds like Busan's.
It's rough and loud.
Other people, especially Koreans
would wonder if the person is upset or angry.
- That's how it sounds. - Could you give an example?
- How is it like? - In Beijing.
- Beijing speak isn't the standard. - Is it not?
Beijing has their own dialect, too.
- What's the standard? - It's called Putonghua.
"What are you doing?" in Putonghua is...
In my dialect, it's...
- It's rough. - It's so different.
Cantonese and Mandarin are completely different.
They have Chinese subtitles on TV.
We have a native Chinese guest.
We have a Chinese guest
so why is a man from Ilsan explaining this to us?
That's so ironic.
They subtitle their own language.
- The Chinese man's hometown... - He's a know-it-all.
He does know a lot.
- I once filmed in Taiwan. - I'm so embarrassed.
Koreans complain a lot that the Chinese are so loud.
We have that prejudice.
I understand, but the Chinese think that
we must speak in a loud voice.
- Because China is so big? - That's the reason, too.
But we also think it's rude to speak quietly.
It's good to greet someone passionately.
If a Chinese person spoke quietly like this,
we'd wonder, "Is he's upset?"
"Why is he speaking so quietly?"
That's why we always speak loudly.
"Oh, hello, nice to meet you."
It's a different culture.
They're so loud when they cheer.
- "Jiayou, jiayou!" - Excuse me.
- All cheering... - He's the Chinese guest.
No one cheers quietly.
Mr. Lee, you're a Korean from Ilsan.
- Yuan's explanation... - Why is he so knowledgeable?
She keeps saying she wants to hide.
Are you from Hong Kong?
- You know so much about China. - I apologize.
I'm so sorry.
What he says makes sense because I filmed in China.
I danced and made a fool of myself as usual.
The local producer complained to the Korean staff.
He pointed to me and spoke Chinese.
I asked what he said in case I did something wrong.
He'd thanked me for being so passionate.
- Would he have said it like that? - He did.
Am I wrong?
- He filtered it for you. - Yuan, how about...
You aren't the producer
- but thank him for being passionate. - Yes, please.
- Pretend. - Praise him for his passion?
- Dance like you did that day. - You're the director.
Say I was doing this.
- That's it? - Saeho.
- It sounds like praise. - It's obviously praise.
- What's wrong with you? - That's obviously praise.
- He's a bluffer. - It's so hard to put up with him.
There must be some who speak extra loud.
Yuan, can you try again with a little more emotion?
Say the same thing but exaggerate.
- It does sound scary. - It does compared to earlier
but it still sounds like a compliment.
I think he insulted you
- but out of pity the interpreter... - I agree.
Oh, that's what happened.
- He didn't like what you did. - Yuan.
This time I want you to complain.
"Why did you hire that guy?"
- Say that. - Angrily.
- With emotion. - Be angry.
I'll pretend to be the interpreter.
He's so... Oh, that's Korean.
You're almost a Korean now.
- I thought he was angry. - Speaking in anger...
It's like talking in one's sleep.
- I'll try again. - Be angry.
Can you tell me what he said?
You danced so passionately.
- This is it. - That's what happened.
That was it.
That's it.
I don't understand Chinese, but I can feel the emotion.
That's it.
That's why the producer told me not to dance.
- He said he was sick of it. - That explains it.
- Now I understand. - Thank you.
- I'd like to ask about something. - What?
- The food. - What food?
I went to China, and there are all sorts of food.
- There are. - Insects.
Where? Beijing?
China is big, so I wouldn't know.
People talk about it a lot.
- We heard you eat monkey parts. - The brain.
- I ate a starfish once. - A starfish?
Was it tasty?
- It's like a crab's insides. - They're edible?
- Is that what it looks like? - The taste.
- I balked at first, but... - Chinese ingredients
- are so varied. - Do you stock up on insects?
- I get that question so often. - I'm sure you do.
"You Chinese eat everything?"
I can tell from your face that you're sick of it.
I think it's part of our culture.
- There are many ethnic groups. - That's right.
There are 56.
Each ethnic group has a unique food culture.
The Han eat average food.
Some minority ethnic groups eat rats.
Some minorities eat cats, dogs, and insects.
Have you heard of Wangfujing in Beijing?
- "Wangfujing"? - Wangfujing.
- It's a street like Myeong-dong. - Wangfujing.
They sell a lot of grilled insects
but the locals rarely eat them.
It's for the tourists.
- Not us. - So not all Chinese eat that.
- That's right. - I see.
The last time I was in China
I ate an insect for the first time with a friend.
My friend asked me if the Chinese eat this all the time.
I said, "Not everyone. I haven't even tried it before."
So we bought two, and we tried one each.
- It isn't too bad. - I filmed in Wangfujing once.
- It's a famous street. - It is.
They sell scorpions, snakes, spiders, and other things.
They're sold on skewers
and I wondered how one would eat that.
I'm always surrounded by fans
because I'm a universal famous celebrity.
So I decided to put something in my mouth for a show.
All my fans and the locals started staring at me.
I thought if a foreigner in Korea tried Korean food
and scowled in front of me, I'd be offended.
So I smiled a huge, happy smile and chewed.
I said "Yum" and kept chewing.
My Chinese fans started looking at me funny.
They said, "You don't have to try so hard."
"We don't even eat that. There's no need to try."
- Your fans know better. - They do.
This is our New Years in My Hometown Special.
I'd like to know what you do on New Years.
Bongwon, what do you think you'll be doing?
Our family has an ancestral rite ceremony on New Years.
- For years. - Are you the eldest son?
Yes, I am.
- Our relatives used to visit for that. - They would.
But now we have less relatives.
My baseball teammates and hiking club members visit.
It sounds more like an office gathering.
It's a waiting room of sorts.
They always visit on holidays.
It's about ten to 12 of them.
- After your relatives leave? - At the same time.
They come to eat.
It can't be easy to cook for them.
The food is there anyway.
- She cooks it. - Someone has to.
You have no idea because you just sit and eat.
- It's tough to cook for groups. - The amount alone.
She goes from cooking this much to this much.
Those who eat only think about the amount they eat.
But the person who has to cook...
I've been doing it for over 20 years now
so I'm used to it.
- She... - You married a great woman.
- What? - She's a great woman.
You live with her, then.
- Eunhye, do you visit your in-laws? - Yes, in Busan.
- Do you help cook, then? - Yes, I do.
I visit them three times a year.
I go for my father-in-law's memorial, Chuseok and Seol.
I love those visits.
I'm the second daughter-in-law.
- What about it? - The hard chores...
- Second daughters-in-law... - Actually...
- Does your sister-in-law do all the work? - No.
Does she complain you come too late?
My sister-in-law lives in Busan.
I sleep over at my in-laws the night before.
My mother-in-law sets everything up the day I arrive
and my sister-in-law comes over the next morning.
People think the younger daughters-in-law
- can't do anything. - That's right.
It's an image portrayed in TV dramas.
- You're Joey Wong. - My sister-in-law cooks.
Before she arrives in the morning,
- my job is to crack ten eggs. - That's nothing.
- Cracking eggs is a job? - To be done ahead?
- Eggs are hard. - Ten eggs are a lot.
I crack and beat ten eggs then
I season the ingredients for Korean pancakes
- with salt and pepper. - That's hard work.
- Then I spread newspaper on the floor. - You set up.
I do that before my sister-in-law arrives.
I hand her the ingredients, and she put flour on them.
Poor you.
- That's hard labor. - I dip them in egg mixture
and my sister-in-law fries them on the frying pan.
The problem is when the pancake is cooked,
it feels like she did all the work.
- Even though you helped. - It's all down to her.
I sat to her side and helped
but second daughters-in-law...
My former manager's mom was the eldest daughter-in-law
and my manager said she hated her aunt for not working.
I got upset and said that's not true.
"You have no idea how hard it is to be the assistant."
- Is your sister-in-law mean? - No, she isn't.
Are you talking badly about her?
You're contradicting yourself.
You're talking badly about your own in-laws.
Eunhye seems to be very confused.
She's denying the abuse, but she's tearing up.
If my sister-in-law sees this and says
"Eunhye, you do the cooking now."
I'd never be able to do that.
It's hard to make Korean pancakes.
My in-laws want them to look perfect.
I'm more afraid that this might air on TV.
- The egg isn't the issue. - It's not that bad.
Let me wrap up your story, Eunhye.
You said you live visiting your in-laws on holidays
but the work is actually too much for you.
Sisters-in-law are tough. I'm the only daughter-in-law.
It's just me.
Sisters-in-law keep in mind who does what
when the family gathers on holidays.
The mothers-in-law see everything.
You don't have those problems.
- Misun is lucky. - I'm very fortunate.
For example, someone has to wash the dishes.
- There she goes again. - There's more.
We didn't ask about this.
It's not just me. It's all second daughters-in-law.
- Don't worry. - All second daughters-in-law work.
I'm sure second daughters-in-law want to vent.
- Speak up. - I'm trying to say we work, too.
Someone has to talk about this.
- The dishes. - There's so much washing up to do
so dishes have to be dried to make room.
I'm the youngest so that's my job.
- You do all the tough jobs. - Don't I?
The flowing water washes everything away.
You just have to hold the dishes up.
- But drying dishes takes effort. - To hold and wipe.
I have to grab hold really hard.
Aren't you exaggerating your own chores?
"The water washes the dishes, but I actually work."
You have to scrub hard the greasy plates.
- Wiping away water is hard? - My hands ache.
Then there's the issue of the dishcloth.
- I can't use too many. - Of course.
There's more to wash later.
It's a stranger's house, so I can't do what I want.
Your in-laws are strangers?
- The truth came out. - "A stranger's house."
- You said you loved visiting them. - It came out.
- It's her kitchen. - Keep going.
- Where does your sister-in-law live? - In Busan.
Why? Are you plotting something?
- Are you going to do something? - Daegu is close.
- Do you want to help? - She lives nearby, then.
- It's worse for her. - It is if you live nearby.
We have 11 ancestral rites a year.
- Do you go to all of them? - I visit three times.
- The rites... - You have it easy, then.
You do nothing.
- Your sister-in-law has a lot to do. - It's a lot.
You should get her something nice this holiday.
- I should do that. I never did. - Never?
- Give her cash. - What about in China?
- Do daughters-in-law cook? - I'm curious.
It's similar to Korea.
Koreans talk about "daughter-in-law holiday syndrome".
- Holiday Syndrome. - China is the same.
Usually the women do the cooking.
- Do they? - Yes, they do.
Do you have ancestral rites, too?
We used to, but we rarely do anything formal.
- Lunar New Year is a huge holiday. - The biggest.
They celebrate for two weeks.
It's a long holiday and the Chinese
- start preparing two weeks in advance. - Why?
- My mother does the same. - Is there a lot to cook?
- The cooking... - It makes sense.
People travel for over 20 hours just to get home.
It's pointless if the holiday is only a few days long.
Just to stay two days.
- The legal holiday is about a week. - Legally?
Yes, legally. We have other holidays, too.
If you take the right days off...
- It lasts two weeks. - Yes, two weeks to a month.
- A month? - Some people take a month off.
What do you do on Lunar New Year?
- We play yunnori. - We give children money.
- We give children money, too. - Do you bow?
We do. We give them money.
- As a kid, money... - You sounded annoyed.
"We give them money."
- Because I... - Is it me you hate?
I now have to give children money.
- It's changed. - It has.
It's a huge expense. How much do Koreans give children?
- 10 dollars? - It's 50 dollars.
You get into trouble if you give ten dollars.
Your relatives say you're stingy and bad.
- We have to give... - Do you swipe cards?
Of course not. I give 100 dollars.
I noticed you held back.
He doesn't like jokes.
- Heechul, that was close. - Thank you.
Heechul is famous in China.
- He's popular. - Super Junior.
It's because he's slightly weird.
He's unlike your typical celebrity.
He borrowed Eunhye's speech pattern.
"I like him so much, but I hate him."
Do you have to give 100 dollars to each child?
- For 40-50 children. - It costs a few months' wages.
That's how much you have to give out to relatives
- is that it? - The younger relatives.
In Korea, when relatives give the kids money,
- their moms say, "I'll keep it for you." - They do.
- Are the Chinese moms the same? - Yes, they are.
I never saw the cash again.
- We're the same. - It's the same.
I don't know where all my Seol money went.
I'm sure your mother still has it.
Yeonga, what do you do on Seol?
- Do you play Go? - With your family?
- That's odd. - We watch the Go channel.
- On a holiday? - We rarely watch TV.
Does everyone like Go?
- I'm a Go Ambassador. - Are you?
- What dan are you? - My dad is 5-dan.
- Then he's good. - Your house must be so quiet.
I never used to think that Go was fun but
now I'm older there's less things to enjoy with my dad.
- It's nice of you. - It's a way to give him cash.
- I challenge him to a game. - That's nice.
Do you give him money for playing?
He gives me a head start, but of course I lose.
I say, "Thanks for the lesson" and gave him some money.
- That's a good idea. - It's a very nice one.
But because you're his daughter,
he might think you're losing to him on purpose.
Overturn the table once in a while.
"How could you use that trick against me?"
We can't talk about Seol without food.
Let's head to the cafeteria.
It's time to talk over some food.
We haven't been here in months.
It's been a while since I saw Bongwon with Misun.
- What is it? - Do you feel embarrassed?
- So much. - Hold each other.
I understand how they feel.
They're not used to showing their love for each other.
- I'm really shy, too. - You look like newlyweds.
Bongwon, you're preparing a stage play?
- "Attention." - It's based on an old comedy sketch.
- A stage play of "Attention"? - It should be fun.
- Eunhye, do you know "Attention"? - Of course.
- Do you? - She's old.
What about you, Yeonga?
- You should know. - I think I do.
- The army... - Yes, on "Humor 1st".
- Heechul, do you remember it? - I do.
- I doubt Yuan knows. - I remember.
- What? - Hang on, you what?
- Thank you. - He's a funny guy.
What?
A big part of holidays is food.
We prepared some holiday dishes for you.
We prepared what our guests eat with their families.
Let's see what you eat.
Eunhye, what does your family eat?
- We always ate dumpling soup. - That's right.
- Are your parents from the north? - No, they're not.
Why not tteokguk?
We're just from Incheon.
I heard that. Where did I hear this?
- The south has a lot of rice. - The Internet?
- The south grows rice. - The north grows wheat.
So southerners eat tteokguk, northerners eat dumplings.
- We add dumplings to tteokguk. - That's right.
- So that's what we ate. - My family do, too.
We always made dumplings.
We have footage of Eunhye making dumplings.
- We asked for one. - It's my first time.
My first time making dumplings on my own.
- I'm not sure if it's a success. - Let's find out.
We'll see.
- Hello. - Is that your home?
- I'll make my mom's dumplings. - Is that your home?
- Yes, it is. - It's my first time making them alone.
- It's your twins. - They're so cute.
it's Jaewan and Jaeho.
Okay.
- This is the stuffing. - Did you make that yourself?
- Did your mom help? - This is the skin.
- Did you make it? - It's best to make it yourself.
- You can by the skin. - That's...
- The table looks so clean. - It's new.
- Your baby... - You gave him a soju bottle.
He's so cute.
- With those tiny hands. - You're doing great, Jaeho.
Isn't he doing well, Jaewan?
- He's cute. - Is he?
You seem to know what you're doing.
Is that a double? Why did he focus on the hands?
- You're doing good. - Why didn't he show your face?
- Dae Jang Geum? - Did you hire a chef double?
That isn't you, right?
My son hates getting dirty.
- He's wiping off the flour. - He is neat.
Yes.
Isn't it pretty? It's nice and fat.
That's the last one done.
I'll bring some to the studio. I hope you like them.
We're done. Finished!
Give mommy a kiss.
Thank you.
- You made a lot in your day. - You're good at it.
I never made songpyeon, the half-moon shaped rice cakes
but I made dumplings every year.
I eat at least ten of them in my soup in one sitting.
Did you make the stuffing, too?
- Is there a family recipe? - No, I use sour kimchi.
I chop up sour kimchi leftover from last year.
I add meat, tofu, lentil sprouts and vermicelli.
That's what goes into the stuffing.
The soup tastes best when it's slightly spicy.
- My mom cooks beef bone soup. - Beef bone soup.
- That sounds good. - Beef bone soup can be thick
so she dilutes that with some water.
We have dumpling soup that Eunhye made herself.
We'll taste it first as usual.
It's been a while.
- Myungsoo. - I'm hungry.
I used to do the serving every week.
- Homemade dumplings are big. - Did you make this?
Having a mushy dumpling improves the soup.
- It must be good. - It smells nice.
It's very sticky.
- There is kimchi. - It should have kimchi.
- How does it taste? - It should have kimchi.
- It tastes better with kimchi. - It's delicious.
- Kimchi dumplings are the best. - It's the taste.
Homemade food is the best.
The skin...
- It tastes special. - Doesn't it?
The skin is chewy and stuffed well.
It took me two hours to make the dumplings.
- Was it hard? - So hard.
Pity your sister-in-law, then.
You just prepare the ingredients.
- Eunhye is a good cook. - With this...
Get a large piece of sour kimchi.
- Mix some rice in the leftover soup. - Rice soup.
Mix some rice in dumpling soup.
I'm not sure if Yuan will like it.
It's delicious.
- Eunhye. - Yes?
- You make great dumplings. - I do?
- Yes. - Thank you.
- I smell the meat. - It's really rich.
- It's tasty. - I love the soup.
These are definitely Seoul dumplings.
- They're rich. - They are.
I think they taste extra rich because of the soup.
- It's so chewy. - Do you like it?
It doesn't taste of MSG, and the dumplings are big.
What do you think, Yuan?
- It's really good. - Is it?
I actually love traditional Korean food.
I don't order dumplings at stores or restaurants.
- China has many kinds of dumplings. - Yes.
These are very different from store bought dumplings.
- They are. - Definitely.
We tried the dumpling soup that Eunhye's family eats.
Are there any unique Gangwon-do customs?
I didn't think much of it when I grew up there
but now that I live in Seoul I realized that
we eat all things beef.
- Meaty foods. - Meat shish kebab.
Meat practically goes into everything we make.
- In Korean pancake. - In tteokguk, rice cake soup?
Meat always goes in rice cake soup or dumpling soup.
- We always had beef. - It's everywhere.
For us today, Heechul prepared
- a Gangwon-do dish. - Did he?
- I started cooking for this show. - Really?
I tried cooking ramen
- but I'm really terrible at cooking. - Are you?
I wasn't sure at the time if I'd even succeed.
- But I have Gangwon-do blood. - Did you succeed?
- It was amazing. - Did you reproduce the taste?
I could open a diner if I quit being a celebrity.
- That's confidence. - Are you that proud?
- Try and you'll see. - Very well.
Let's take a look at the footage of Heechul cooking.
- Hello. - He looks like a girl.
- That mask... - You like red.
Wasn't I pretty in those days?
Right now
I can hear the ratings going up.
The dish I will prepare for you today is...
I'm from Hoengseong in Gangwon-do.
Hoengseong is famous for Korean beef and me.
I'm going to make you some beef tteokguk.
I used to eat this with tteokguk.
I remember what it looks like
but I'm a really terrible cook.
When God made me, he put everything in my face.
He didn't give me any cooking skills.
I like garlic.
I don't have a girlfriend.
I won't be kissing anyone
so I'll put in a lot of garlic.
- Reporters will have a field day. - That much?
I like spicy food, so I'll add a lot of chili powder.
- Chili powder? - That's odd.
Why chili powder?
It looks pretty good.
I'll also add dried seaweed.
I cut it up.
You're adding seasoned seaweed?
- What? The seaweed... - You put that in later.
- That's what the producer said. - It goes in later?
- It's sprinkled on later. - As a topping.
Who cares when it goes in as long as you eat it?
Now for some Hoengseong beef.
Don't I look like a chef?
I think I can add the meat now.
I think it's boiled together.
It smells really good.
Look at Yuan's face.
If this were a 4D show, you could smell it.
- And then like ramen... - Ramen?
- We're all grimacing. - You added many ingredients.
You have to wash every corner.
We wash our armpits when we shower.
- Cut as much as you want. - With scissors?
Aren't I an amazing cook?
This is Heechul's Hoengseong beef tteokguk.
It's a hodgepodge of ingredients.
The smell of beef...
This is Heechul's Hoengseong beef tteokguk.
"Happy Together" viewers and moms
I love you.
This mess...
Is this your mom's actual recipe?
It's what I remember seeing in my bowl.
It's based on my memory.
The crew you sent to film me all had some.
We'll taste it, then.
- That's a lot of meat. - A lot.
- It's a meat soup. - Is it supposed to be like that?
- We have so much beef. - It's Hoengseong.
I even dream of cattle.
- I'll try the meat first. - It's like beef soup.
- The look alone... - It's really red.
- Isn't it delicious? - The meat is not bad.
- The meat isn't tough. - It's delicious.
The look of it...
I'll try some with the soup and tteok.
What if a cooking show wants me on?
I'm already busy.
- Isn't it great? - How is it?
- Hoengseong tteokguk. - What do you eat with it?
Do you have any sides with it?
What's scary about this is
I think I might eat it all up.
- Not because it's delicious. - I wish this were 4D.
- I wish the viewers could smell it. - It's not bad.
- Did you use salt? - I used no seasoning or sauce.
- No soy sauce or salt. - Then what?
- How do you season it? - I don't.
It's just the chili powder and garlic.
- Seasoning... - Any kimchi?
- Nothing. - I do taste the garlic.
- The smell is pretty strong. - It's good for you.
- It looks good. - I heard you eat squid kimchi.
- I don't like squid kimchi. - Why?
- He's trying to be cute. - It's our Seol Special.
You should be trying to promote Gangwon-do food.
- Why don't you like it? - My aunts all make it.
- It's good. - They add squid to the kimchi.
- It's tasty. - Whenever I'm eating with them
and I get a piece of squid I think, "Oh, not again."
If I say I don't like the squid my aunts and mom
would say, "Eat it, that's the good part."
But I've never seen them eat the squid.
- I think they avoid it. - Myungsoo, any comments?
- It's not horrible. - He didn't use any seasonings.
It's not tteokguk, but it's not ramen.
It's a weird in-between.
You don't season baby food.
- You don't have to. - But we use minced beef.
- It's salty. - Is it?
- It's not totally bland. - Is that why?
We have some more, so we'll let you critique it.
- I think... - I'm curious.
- It's not bad... - But I can't say it's delicious.
- We'll be honest. - Be objective.
It's weird, it's not tteokguk but then...
You just insulted the Hoengseong cattle.
It's not terrible.
I personally love garlic. I'm a garlic maniac.
I use a lot of it when I cook.
It's not bland because of the garlic.
- The aroma... - The garlic seasoned it.
Eunhye, what do you think?
I know why Heechul added the garlic.
- What is it? - It smells beefy.
I think that's why he added a lot of garlic.
- It still smells a little. - The garlic helps.
- It still smells. - How about you, Yeonga?
- Add more garlic. - Hot pot with a lot of garlic.
- It's like shabu shabu. - Yuan?
- Is this Gangwon-do food? - No.
- It's not. - I don't know.
It's Heechul's rice tteokguk.
Do you like it?
If this was really Gangwon-do food, I won't go there.
- Jaeseok and Myungsoo... - No, seriously.
- I'd say it's good if it were. - I love the meat.
- I keep eating the meat. - I can't stop.
I said you complain but you keep eating.
- I can't stop. - It could be fattening.
- It's all meat. - Heechul's tteokguk.
It's Heechul's recipe, not Gangwon-do's.
I can't say this is a Gangwon-do tradition.
It's just Heechul's tteokguk.
It's not even his mom's, it's Heechul's.
My parents and relatives in Gangwon-do might say
"Is that what he thinks we eat at home?"
This is just what I think I ate growing up.
- Based on your memory. - From my childhood.
Like a craftsman relies on his memory.
- These days... - Traditional tteokguk recipes...
I think this is a confession enough.
It's what he remembers from fifth grade.
I think I'd want more later, though.
Yeonga, hasn't it been a while since you went to Daegu?
Yes. About six, seven years?
- Don't you miss your mom's food? - Not really.
Her mom must be a poor cook.
- You'll start missing it. - I love this.
It would've been boring if she agreed.
This is a perfect Seol show.
I'd like to know what Daegu food you remember.
- Daegu food. - What did you like?
I brought tteokguk. It's tteokguk but with...
You usually top it with meat. We used kimigi.
What is "kimigi"?
I explained to your writer that it's tofu, meat
- and garlic, stir-fried together. - That's "kimigi"?
That's what my mom called it.
A stir-fried tofu, meat and garlic topping?
- Stir-fried? - That's odd.
- We have some of her food here. - I'm curious.
- "Kimigi"? - "Kimigi."
- What's this? - That much?
If you have leftover meat pancakes
you crush that and stir-fry them.
This originally is the tteokguk topping.
- Made with leftovers. - This is a new recipe.
- With rice? - And leftover topping?
- Can you add gochuhang? - If you want.
- It's rice, not tteokguk. - There's no soup?
It's the leftover topping.
- Topping with rice. - It's like a donburi.
- A topping donburi. - Is it good?
You could eat that with a fried egg.
It's like meat with rice.
It's the non-spicy version of mapa tofu.
- It has a clean, light taste. - It needs gochujang.
- Like he said... - I like spicy food.
You could add gochujang to taste
or eat with some kimchi.
It would be perfect with some kimchi.
- It would. - It would be nice with kimchi.
- Whatever you like... - You don't like it?
I do like it.
- He didn't mean that. - Your face says it all.
Honestly, the dumplings killed me.
- You ate four. - I ate too many.
Just now, wow...
- I eat a lot of tofu. - Do you? It's good.
- It's good. - Isn't it?
- it's tasty. - It is, I told you it is.
I know what you mean. Kimchi would help.
- You could add gochujang. - Kids would like it.
- Mapa tofu. - Add spices according to your taste.
You could add more tofu.
- It's not Seol food. - It is.
- After Seol... - You can make it with leftovers.
- That's right. - It's a donburi.
It's like Yeonga said.
You can make this with whatever leftovers you have.
You could crush leftover pancakes.
- I like spicy food, so I'd add gochujang. - Yes.
- It's bland. - It's like non-sweetened bulgogi.
- That's exactly it. - Non-sweetened bulgogi.
- Misun? - It tastes like baby food.
- It is. - It's soft and easy to chew.
It's light and not too strong or spicy.
A lot of holiday foods use a lot of oil.
You can crave something like this.
After all that cooking for the holidays
moms want to rest and relax.
It's a great way to cook up a quick meal.
- Do you know why I like this? - Why?
- You just need a bowl. - Exactly.
The husbands should make this.
- What do you think, Eunhye? - Like Misun said
I'd give this to my sons.
They spit out tofu chunks when it's grilled.
If it's crushed like this, they might eat it.
When you're raising kids, everything you cook is bland.
- Yes. - You're right.
- So I love this. - I see.
It's great for children and the elderly.
- Any comments, Heechul? - It lacks that two percent.
- It would be perfect with that. - What?
Heechul's tteokguk.
- It's a perfect compliment. - Yuan, comments?
- It's delicious. - Isn't it?
- This is what you might like. - It tastes of China.
It does taste a bit like Chinese food.
I ate it all.
Yuan, what kind of Korean food do you like the most?
- Your favorite? - I like stews.
- Jjigae. - I like jjigae and samgyetang.
- Samgyetang. - I'll cook you jjigae.
Then forget I said jjigae.
- What about cheonggukjang? - I like it.
- Do you? - Hangover soup.
- Are you okay with the smell? - Yes. I am.
You sell stinky tofu in China.
- I can't eat that. - That smells worse.
I don't eat that much.
- Not all locals can eat it. - Some can't.
What do the Chinese eat during Lunar New Year?
There is something we must eat at midnight.
- At midnight? - We eat dumplings which are gyoza.
- That's the Chinese name. - At midnight?
- Yes. - Is it a custom?
- With your family. - Is there a reason for that?
The Mandarin pronunciation for dumplings
sounds like the word for "proud".
If you eat dumplings at midnight, in the coming year
- good things will happen. - That explains it.
- Yuan brought us some food. - Did he?
- Yuan's food. - Chinese food?
- I'm curious. - Black bean noodles?
This should be good.
- Dumplings. - Dumplings, dumplings, dumplings.
Chinese dumplings.
- Let's see. - What's inside?
- Those are samseon dumplings. - "Samseon."
We did a little something to the dumplings.
- Some have a different stuffing. - Wasabi?
You'll taste the difference when you bite into it.
What's in a samseon dumpling?
- It has three ingredients. - In the stuffing?
- There's eggs, chives and... - Eat this one.
Then it's either shrimp or meat.
- This has shrimp. - That's why it's "samseon"?
It's fun to add anything extra into food.
It's chives, eggs, and shrimp or meat.
You're it?
What is it?
- A piece of chili? - It's a date.
Is it supposed to have a date?
No, it's a Chinese custom.
We add a special ingredient and whoever gets it
is supposed to have a good year.
- What does a date symbolizes? - It's health.
- You do look a bit worse for wear. - What?
- Look after yourself. - I thought it was chili.
It's delicious. We won't describe the taste for you.
The ingredients...
What's in that white one?
That one is called a suancai dumpling.
Suancai is like your white cabbage kimchi.
- Is it made with white kimchi? - Yes, it is.
You can add beef or pork.
- I ate way too many dumplings. - You're sick?
You're eating like it's a buffet.
- What's wrong? - What is it?
- You bit something? - Are you faking it?
- What's wrong? - A coin?
Why is there a coin?
- Eat it. - A coin?
- To become rich? - Do you add coins?
- You have to eat it. - Really?
- Then you'll earn a lot next year. - It'll come out.
Do you want him to earn more money?
- If you pick it out, you earn less money. - Eat it.
- You have to swallow it. - Like this?
No, don't.
- How did he pick that one? - It's meant to be.
- I guess so. - It's fascinating.
- It's meant to be. - Only one has a coin?
- Just one. - There's only one coin?
Let's see if they win anything.
Do we get something special?
- No way. - Let's see.
Tell us what you think of the taste.
Which do we eat first? The samseon dumpling?
Stick it in. Be a man.
Nothing?
You're eating another one?
May you two never go hungry this year.
- Misun. - Health?
- Is it a coin? - Looks like it.
She found something.
Honey.
- Congratulations. - He's a lucky man.
He lives off his wife.
- If he finds the date, they're set. - Let's see.
Did he get it?
- No, he didn't. - Have a look.
Misun will have a busy year, then.
- Look after your own health. - This is fun.
- Did you find it? - No, I didn't.
You all look disappointed when you find nothing.
- No one mentioned the taste. - That's not an issue.
- I'm on a food show, so I'll tell... - Look it up.
- Does that mean Yuan... - Hang on.
- Isn't this a date? - Yuan...
He found the date.
Heechul, you'll be healthy. Health is important.
I'll have a healthy year while earning more money.
Health is important.
- Eunhye, any comments? - I love Chinese dumplings.
It smells of China.
It's a pity we didn't get to eat it when it was hot.
It was slightly hard, but it tasted great.
- Yeonga? - They tasted great. I like them.
I loved the extra stuffing and the custom.
It's a great part of it.
It would be fun to do that with your family.
- It would. - As a child, 40-50 relatives gathered.
- We ate as many as we could. - To find something.
They want to find something.
It helps you bond.
- Adding something nice... - Nothing bad.
Something nice.
- It's a foreign custom but a nice one. - It is.
I'd like to thank Bongwon, Eunhye,
Yeonga, Heechul and Yuan for joining us today.
It's 2015.
I wish you all the best of fortune
and health and happiness in the new year.
We got the date and coin, health and wealth.
- We'll share it with you. - That's nice.
- Happy New Year. - Thank you.