Tteok Museum

Tteok Museum is a museum located in Waryong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Founded by Yoon Sookja, the chief director of the Institute of Traditional Korean Food (한국전통음식연구소), it opened in December, 2002.^[1] The museum specializes in Korean cutlery with approximately 2,000 old Korean kitchen utensils from ancient maetdol (맷돌, grinding stones) to early 20th century kitchenwares on display^[2] and exhibits 50 of Korea's nearly 200 types of tteok (Korean rice cake).^[3]

Tteok Museum

Established	December 2002
Location	164-2 Waryong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Director	Yoon Sookja
Website	tkmuseum.or.kr
Korean name
Hangul	떡박물관
Hanja	떡博物館
Revised Romanization	Tteok bangmulgwan
McCune–Reischauer	Ttŏk pangmulgwan

See also

• Tteok
• Korean cuisine
• Kimchi Field Museum
• Korean Folk Village
• List of museums in Seoul
• List of food and beverage museums

References

1. Park Gumi (2005). ""Tradition, not old fashion but competitiveness ("전통, 낡은 것 아니라 경쟁력이다")" (in Korean). NewsHankuk.com. Archived from the original on October 19, 2021.
2. English tour Korea Archived 2007-06-19 at the Wayback Machine
3. Kim Hee-sung (2007-03-24). "Would tteok, or rice cake, by any other name taste as sweet?". The Korean Overseas Information Service.

External links

• Official website

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