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This poster was made after my Japan and South Korea trip in 2018. The theme of this project is food. I picked the Korean food Gimbap and Japanese food sushi to depict, accompanied by some other typical ingredients widely used in the food of the two countries such as seaweed and narutomaki.
Aside from depicting the food, I also want to reflect the characteristics of the two countries' people. That's why I personified these two types of food and asked my Korean and Japanese friends to write me two poems about the food in their own languages.
寿司 Sushi
海の恵みの豊富な小さな島の食文化
The food culture of a small island which has plenty of harvest from the sea
それには職人の腕と何より新鮮さが求められます
It requires the chef’s skills and freshness of ingredients
手軽に食べられ、つい、手が伸びてしまう
Easy to eat, and you can’t stop
月に何度も足を運びます
You’ll go there many times
そして思うのです
And you’ll think
これは日本を代表するソウルフードなのだと
This is the soul food of Japan
永留怜奈
Rena Nagatome
김밥 Gimbap
우리 사는 곳 달랐어도
We have lived in different places
우리 색깔 달랐어도
We have been in different colors
한곳에 누워
Yet we lay together
향을 섞는다
and mix our smells
까만 어둠
Dim darkness
하얀 이불
White blanket
시간의 칼날에
The sword of time comes
하나씩 하나씩
One by one
추억이 옆으로 눕는다
Memories get laid aside
김정현
Jeong Hyeon Kim
