Bosintang

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Bosintang (boshintang) ( ??? ; ??? ) or gaejangguk ( ??? ), called dangogiguk ( ???? ) in North Korea, is Korean soup that incorporates dog meat as its main ingredient. The soup has been claimed to increase masculinity. Meat is boiled with vegetables such as green onion, perilla leaf, and dandelion, and spices like Doenjang (??), Gochujang (???), and perilla seed powder. It is seasoned with Agastache rugosa before meals. Dishes, one of the most common Korean foods made from dog meat, have a long history in Korean culture, but in recent years have been criticized both inside and outside Korea by people with taboos on dog food.

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Histori

The consumption of dog meat can be traced back to ancient times. Dog bones were dug in neolithic settlements in Changnyeong (??), South Gyeongsang Province. A fresco in the grave complex of Goguryeo in South Hwanghae Province, a UNESCO World Heritage site dating from the 4th century, depicts a massacre dog in the warehouse (Ahn, 2000).

Around the year 1816, Jeong Hak Yu (???; ???), the second son of Jeong Yak-yong (??????), a politician a leading Choseon dynasty and scholar at the time, wrote a poem called Nongawollyeonga (?????; ?????). This poem, an important source of Korean history, illustrates what Korean family farms do every month of the year. In August, the poem tells of a married woman visiting her biological parents with boiled dog meat, rice cakes, and rice wine, demonstrating the popularity of dog meat at the time (Ahn, 2000; Seo, 2002).

In Dongguk Seshigi (?????; ?????), a book written by a Korean scholar Hong Suk Mo (???; ???) in 1849, contains a recipe Boshintang includes boiled dogs and onions.

A common misconception is that the Boshintang (and dog meat in general) is illegal in South Korea, this is not entirely true. Not classified as livestock (according to the Cattle Hygiene Management Act - cattle covered, including cattle, horses, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, quails, pheasants, rabbits and deer), some has taken to indicate its illegality, but that means it is not regulated except by the more common Food Sanitation Law. Thus, restaurants serving Boshintang are subject to routine inspections by city food hygiene checks (including testing dog meat for contaminants), as are all other restaurants. The conditions of animal rapture and slaughter should not be examined, unlike the above-regulated animals. The dog meat (the Boshintang is one of the most commonly presented dishes) is still consumed regularly and can be found easily in many restaurants in South Korea. In 2006, in fact, this is the fourth most commonly consumed meat in South Korea, after beef, chicken and pork (industrial value of 1.4 trillion won).

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Name

There are many different names for this dish in Korean, some of which may be considered euphemism.

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Controversy

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See also

• Asocena
• Korean Cuisine
• List of soups
• List of meat dishes
• Nureongi

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Note

^ a Not to be confused with homophone "??" ( gejang ; marinated crab) or "???" ( Yukgaejang , beef soup).

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References

Source of the article : Wikipedia