PHOTOS Families from South and North Koreas share dishes at reunions
By Jung Da-min, Joint Press Corps
Despite 70 years of separation, people from the two Koreas seemed to share the same taste in food.
At the inter-Korean family reunions held over the week ― the first round from Monday to Wednesday and the second from Friday to Sunday ― participants shared dishes from their hometowns, including kimchi and traditional teas.
The menu card for a lunch box provided by the North on Saturday at a resort on Mount Geumgang reads: butter bread, kimchi, cold steamed chicken, deep-fried shrimps, stir-fried cucumber, roasted Atka mackerel, stir-fried pork and vegetables, stir-fried eggplants with oyster-seasoned soy sauce, rice wrapped in perilla leaves, Korean melons and ginseng tea. Yonhap
The lunchbox delivered to family reunion rooms on Tuesday, the second day of the first round of reunions at a resort on Mount Geumgang. Rice cakes in three colors and stir-fried Geumgang mushrooms were included. Yonhap
Family members share North Korean snacks during the reunion on Tuesday at a resort on Mount Geumgang. Yonhap
South Korean family members pack snacks and instant noodles for their North Korean family at Hanwha resort in Gangwon Province, Thursday, a day before the second round of reunions. Yonhap
Dinner prepared by South Korea is set up at the welcoming dinner on Friday, the first day of the second round reunions at a resort on Mount Geumgang. Sixteen dishes, including stir-fried glass noodles and vegetables and vegetable pancakes in three colors, were on menu along with popular South Korean drinks. Yonhap
A North Korean man waits for elevator as he carries gifts for a family member from South Korea on Saturday, the second day of the second round reunions at a resort on Mount Geumgang. The gift box on the top contains the mushroom Fomitella fraxinea, known for strengthening immunity. Yonhap
Family members from the two Koreas make a toast with North Korea's Inpungsul wine at a welcoming dinner hosted by North Korea on Monday, the first day of the first round of reunions at a resort on Mount Geumgang. Mung bean jelly naengchae (chilled vegetables) and assorted rice cakes are among the dishes on the table. Yonhap