Study on Daily Meal Pattern of Korean Families

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 1987;25(2):69-77.

논문편 : 한국가정의 일상식의 구조에 관한 연구

한경선 , 윤서석

Study on Daily Meal Pattern of Korean Families

Kyoung Sun Han , Seo Seock Yoon

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to explore the daily meal pattern. This could view the future trend of meal pattern by comparing the ones in the past. The informations of this study were obtained from 720 housewives residing in various parts of Korea during July 20 to september 10, 1985, by using questionaires. The subjects were divided into several groups according to their ages, educational levels, careeres, monthly incomes, numbers of family, areas of residence, and types of housing. The X2-test was applied to see the indivisual data. The following observations were made in this study: 72% of Korean families had rice with side dish set three times a day, the first choice for rice substitute was noodle and the second was breads, 80% of the subjects consumed 2~4 varieties of side dishes. The favorite were Kimchi and Doh-an jeang digae(soybean paste stew), cooked vegetable and Gohchoojeang igae(Red pepper paste stew).