Korean Pork Belly Barbecue!! UNSEEN KOREAN FOOD in Outdoor Rock Oven!

MUJU, SOUTH KOREA - We’re in the countryside town of Muju, South Korea, and we came here specifically to eat a Korean food meal that’s very traditional, yet extremely rare to find anymore.

To understand this Korean food, you need to know a little about the history. And previous, hemp fiber was used for traditional clothing and in order to process the plant, they needed steam it in a big community fire with hot rocks. So during that time, in the villages people discovered a technique of adding food to a pot and steaming it from the existing heat of the steamer. Korean have always been resourceful and innovative and this is a cooking technique that truly shows it.

Now, hemp fiber is no longer practical or common, and neither is setting up a massive rock pit with a bonfire - so there are only a handful of places in all of South Korea that still keep the tradition.