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The world is paying attention to Korea's music, dramas and movies, and new types of Korean restaurants are also popular these days in New York, the United States, where people enjoy a variety of food culture.



It goes beyond delicious and comfortable food to present a luxurious taste of Korea. Correspondent Kim Jong-won of New York covered it.



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New York's 32nd Street Korea Way, the menu in Hangeul is lined with stone pot bibimbap, budaejjigae, and Korean restaurants.



Customers enjoying Korean food in front of a Korean restaurant.



If you look, you can see that there are more Americans of various races than Koreans.



As such, Korean food has long been a popular food that New Yorkers can enjoy on a daily basis.



Although globalization was successful in this way, it also had limitations.



Korean food is perceived as cheap.



[Jeong-eun Park / Manager of New York restaurant 'Atomix': (Americans) I have no objection to the 200 or 300 dollars when I go to a Japanese restaurant, and I have a longing for Japanese food.

But people think that Korean food is expensive even if it is only $20 or $30.

We need to change this food culture a bit.]



So-called Fine Dining, a Korean-based restaurant that was established in New York four years ago, has 16 seats and receives guests twice in the evening only.



One meal per person costs well over $300, but it's still one of New York's most popular restaurants, filling six months' worth of reservations.



The menu is a creative reinterpretation of Korean food,



[Employee: Mix 'Mae Saenggi Sauce' with the pasta below and enjoy.]



Recently, in New York, high-end restaurants where young Korean chefs are introducing new interpretations of Korean food are rapidly increasing.



[Jung Ho-young / Chef Joo-ah, New York Restaurant: Nowadays, even customers who visit our restaurant have a growing understanding of Korean food.

Customers seem to prefer food with a Korean point these days.]



In particular, these Korean-based restaurants are receiving stars one after another from the Michelin Guide, which selects and announces the best restaurants in the world.



[Park Jin-bae/Professor of New York FIT: I know about 14 Japanese restaurants (in New York) that have received Michelin stars.

There are 6 Korean restaurants, but 18 Japanese restaurants and 2 Korean restaurants received Michelin stars before the pandemic and 3 years ago.

Now, in the next five years, the number (of Michelin-starred Japanese and Korean restaurants) will be similar.] In



New York, Korean food is now being reborn as a food that the mainstream American society is passionate about.



(Video coverage: Lee Sang-wook, video editing: Kim Ho-jin)