Dodang Saemaul Movement Council Make Soybean Sauces for the Needy
"Fill Up Jars With Love"
Nowadays people can't imagine to dare to make soybean sauces by themselves. They usually buy those at the market. Benjawon, a 46 years old woman, who immigrated from Vietnam 15 years ago, participated the event of making Korean traditional soybean paste and soy sauce, and she learned recipes for two Korean sauces.
More than twenty members of Dodang Saemaul Movement Council in Wonmi-gu, Bucheon City made Korean traditional soybean paste and soy sauce for the needy last April 10, 2013.
It takes several months to make Korean soybean paste and soy sauce in Korean traditional recipe. They have ripened lumps of fermented soybean with salty water from last early of March in Korean style jars for food, 3rd floor, Dodang Resident Community Center, after they washed the fermented soybean.
That day they separated soy sauce from soybean paste. They mashed up lumps of fermented soybean and put those into other crocks in order to ripen those to be soybean paste. And they boiled the soy sauce for several hours and poured those in other jars. After 5 or 6 months of ripening time, finally the new soybean paste and soy sauce of the year will complete.
Dodang Saemaul Movement Council has held this event of making two Korean traditional soy sauces for 7 years. If the two types of soy sauces are completed around this September, they will give those sauces to senior citizens who live along or needy neighbors, or use those sauce as food ingredients for senior's festivals. Also they sell parts of those sauces to citizens and make money for helping others.
Benjawon, who is a member of the council, said with her smile "It was a great experience to make Korean traditional soybean sauces. But it was hard to mash up the lumps of fermented soybean to make soybean paste."
Jongbok Kim, chairman of Dodang Saemaul Movement Council, said "It takes long time and it's not easy to make soybean sauses by ourselves. But we're happy to help neighbors with these traditional soybean sauces. We'll keep on helping needy neighbors like the senior citizen who lives along and multi-cultural families."
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