A completed recipe of miyeok guk, Korean seaweed soup. It's made to celebrate birthdays, but also as a means of reminding those who eat it of the postpartum journey their mothers have gone through.

Miyeok guk is a seaweed soup consumed on birthdays in Korea. It is also the first meal served to many new moms after delivering a baby. The soup is believed to help with postpartum recovery by ...

Author-illustrator Hyewon Yum’s picture book A Spoonful of the Sea examines the Korean tradition of miyeok-guk, a seaweed soup that’s served to both nursing mothers the month after they give birth, ...

Daebak! – pronounced DEH-bahk, often with a long, guttural emphasis on the first syllable – can be a noun, an adjective or an interjection that expresses approval when something is truly great. It’s ...

Eric wrote, “If I could have only 10 Korean dishes for the rest of my life, these would be it.” By Sam Sifton Credit...Bobbi Lin for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Sue Li. Prop Stylist: Sophia ...

A resident collects seaweed, known as "miyeok" in Korean, at a beach in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, northeastern South Korea, on April 9, 2025. Koreans use seaweed to make "miyeokguk," Korea's ...

The main ingredients in this flavorful soup are beef and daikon, making it similar to soegogi-muguk (Korean beef and daikon soup). However, unlike the latter, tang-guk has less broth and omits ...