Abstract

Cuisine is important not only in personal life but also in social life at both family and community level; on a large scale, it is for diplomatic mission. As a result, the comparison in cuisine culture would bring about useful knowledge to enrich mutual understanding in both Korean and Vietnamese cultures. The paper analyses and demonstrates the similarities and differences in the field of cuisine between Korean and Vietnamese traditional cultures, as well as the similarities in the way of cooking and in the eating and drinking habits of Korean and Vietnamese peoples.