BooDaeChiGae 부대찌개

During the Korean War, extreme hunger forced people to abandon shame, and eat garbage and contents of discarded C-ration cans purchased at U.S. military bases. In Korea, BooDaeChiGae, which embodies the memory of this hunger, has become popular among the post-war generation. In a way, BooDaeChiGae can be read as a phenomenon of the post-modern era because it embodies different cultural elements. But, BooDaeChiGae is actually a distorted relic of the drastic social upheaval caused by U.S intervention and the Korean War while Post-modernism is a product of post-capitalist relations, and its circulation in the West. Although the Armistice Treaty was signed over fifty years ago, this food is still on the Korean dining table, reproducing the memory of the War in present-day Korea.