This week (September 2nd – September 6th), EBS 1TV’s current affairs and cultural program ‘Oriental Medicine Travelogue’ will air as a 5-part series.
This summer was hotter than ever. It was a time when we desperately needed ‘Korean medicine’ to recover our tired bodies and minds. So we prepared it. A special ‘Korean medicine’ for you.
From the largest herbal medicine market in the country where just walking around will make you healthy, to ‘Gyeongokgo’, called the king’s elixir, and ‘Seokcheong’, called the treasure of the autumn mountains, to a special meal for the most precious person in my life.
Let’s recharge our energy with some heavy ‘one-shot’ and welcome the energetic new season, fall.
Choi Geum-ok, who had been sick and weak since she was young, was saved by ‘medicinal herbs’ grown in the mountains and fields, as she hovered between life and death to the point of needing revenge.
Ms. Geum-ok, who realized that nature was where her body wanted to be, came to her husband’s hometown, Samjinae Village, Damyang 30 years ago. Even these days, she goes to the mountains and fields in search of the gifts that the seasons give her.
She set out to prepare a special meal today. She dug up ‘sancho’ in the mountains to make kimchi, picked lotus flowers grown in the fields, and made lotus rice with medicinal herbs and glutinous rice. Her food is characterized by not using a single artificial seasoning. Instead of sugar, she ground pumpkin and added nuts as a good seasoning.
The reason why we prepare the table with such care! It’s because an important guest is coming.
The guest who came after three years was the eldest son, Monk Sejin. His son had suffered from a skin disease since he was young. His mother, Geumok, convinced her son to become a monk, fearing that he would suffer emotional distress as he had difficulty living in society.
Ms. Geum-ok, a mother who always feels sorry and grateful to her son, has been making monk’s clothes for her son by dyeing fabrics with natural materials with her heart.
After spending a heartbreaking time with the rich, it was time to leave again. The mother pickled plums picked in the spring for her son, added perilla leaves, and made a beautiful monk’s robe to wear in the fall.
Let’s take a look at a delicious ‘Hanbang’ herbal medicine table filled with a mother’s love for her son.
Reporter Park Yu-mi Photo = EBS Korea Travel
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2024-09-05 07:24:29