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■ For a warm bowl of soup While everyone is deep asleep, there are people who open the dawn of Utjang faster than anyone else. They are the people who deliver the main ingredient of Gukbap, the pig's head. When the pig's head arrives, the merchants start their day by preparing the meat. From the white, rich broth that takes hours of boiling to the process of removing the meat from the boiled meat, all of this is done by the merchants. The merchants of Gukbap Street work hard to achieve a consistent taste with the same time, same place, and same ingredients every day. Many people's sweat is put into a bowl of Gukbap before it reaches the table. ■ Gukbap, wake me up Ms. Park Yoon-rye, who has spent half her life in Utjang. She opened a pork belly restaurant, a butcher shop, and now a Gukbap restaurant. She started out with the intention of doing it for half a year, but it has already been over forty years. She says that when she hears someone say they ate a full pot and leave, all the hardships melt away like snow. Even when she was sick and had to take a break from business, she envied her coworkers the most. Today, I head to the store from dawn to serve hot soup. I started the soup business empty-handed while being chased by debt. It was soup that gave new life to 28-year-old Lee Yeo-gyeong. I cut down on my sleep and worked hard every day to boil and prepare pig heads to sell soup. I sold soup for ten years and raised a child and paid off all my debt. Now, I am a 20-year veteran and still keep the same place. Each bowl of soup contains my life and sincerity, and even today, steam rises from the Utjang soup street. ■ People looking for soup Many people who visit Utjang have become regular customers and have spent a long time with the soup street. The daughter, who was two years old when she first came, is now a high school student and sits across from her father and eats soup with memories as a side dish. Kim Hyeok-gyu visited his regular soup restaurant today. The soup here is the food he ate to endure his late twenties, when he was the hungriest and most difficult. A bowl of soup that comforted him in his youth is still in front of him today. Documentary 3 days [Hot comfort - 72 hours in the Utjang soup alley in Suncheon, Jeollanam-do] 20211128 Please protect 'public broadcasting' https://me2.do/IMpBJf6Z #suguk #bean sprout soup #sundae soup