Han Jung-hye, a former head of Han Jung-hye Cooking School, who is considered to have contributed to promoting Korean food culture to the world, died of old age on the 9th. He was 91 years old.
Born in 1931 in Bukcheong, Hamnam, the deceased graduated from a teacher’s school at the age of 20 and spent three years as an elementary school teacher. Later, he married at the age of 23, but after giving birth to his first child, he once wanted to become a lawyer since 1952, and after giving birth to his youngest child at the age of 32, he changed his way to cooking. “There was always a regret that I couldn’t continue studying in the corner of my mind,” he said in an interview with the JoongAng Ilbo in 1978.
Eventually, in 1967, she studied in Japan with four siblings and her husband in Korea, graduating from Egami Cooking Academy and Kappo Cooking Academy in Japan. A year later, he returned to Korea and opened a cooking academy named after him in 1968 (later renamed Han Jeong-hye Cooking School). For about 10 years from 1980, he was appointed by the Korea Tourism Organization and served as a cultural envoy to promote Korean food to the world.
It also helped promote overseas food culture and table manners in Korea. He is a world-renowned Western culinary expert and table manners expert in Japan in the 1980s He studied at the Miyuki Manner Class and the International School of Etiquette in the French Ministry of Culture, and qualified as an international manners counselor and opened an international manners class in Korea. He served as a member of the School Meal Service Committee at the 1986 Asian Games, 1988 Seoul Olympics, and the Seoul Paralympics.
As a book, he published more than 30 books on quantified food recipes and table manners, including a complete collection of “The World’s Home Cooking,” English version “Korean Cooking,” Japanese version “Korean Cooking,” “Let’s Read Delicious World’s Menu,” “Manners Are Attractive,” and “Tableware on a Happy Day.” During the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, he appeared on NHK’s Korean introduction program and introduced Korean food and table culture.
The deceased also stood at Seoul National University of Health in 1993 and Ewha Womans University in 1995. After the deceased was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2014, Han Jung-hye Cooking School closed after retirement.