๋ณธ๋ฌธ ๋ฐ”๋กœ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ
๐Ÿœ Korean Food

How Koreans Eat Nakji-bokkeum ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ์€ ๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋จน์„๊นŒ์š”?

by Sunny ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท 2026. 8. 15.

Have you ever tried Nakji-bokkeum (๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ) in Korea? ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ”ฅ
It’s a popular Korean dish made with octopus and vegetables stir-fried in a spicy sauce.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ์„ ๋จน์–ด๋ณธ ์  ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ”ฅ
๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ์€ ๋‚™์ง€์™€ ์ฑ„์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋งค์ฝคํ•œ ์–‘๋…์— ๋ณถ์•„์„œ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์ด์—์š”.

Today, let’s enjoy some Korean food and learn a Korean expression that Koreans actually use when eating!

์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹๋„ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝํ•˜๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์‹์‚ฌํ•  ๋•Œ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ž์ฃผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ‘œํ˜„๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋ฐฐ์›Œ๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š”!


๐Ÿ™ What is Nakji-bokkeum?

๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ์€ ์–ด๋–ค ์Œ์‹์ผ๊นŒ์š”?

๋‚™์ง€ = octopus
๋ณถ์Œ = stir-fried dish

So, ๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ (nakji-bokkeum) is a spicy stir-fried octopus dish.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ์€ ๋‚™์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฑ„์†Œ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งค์ฝคํ•œ ์–‘๋…์— ๋ณถ์•„ ๋จน๋Š” ์Œ์‹์ด์—์š”.

The octopus is chewy, and the spicy sauce goes really well with rice. ๐Ÿš

์ซ„๊นƒํ•œ ๋‚™์ง€์— ๋งค์ฝคํ•œ ์–‘๋…์ด ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ ธ์„œ ๋ฐฅ๊ณผ ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ ์–ด์šธ๋ ค์š”.


๐Ÿš How do Koreans eat Nakji-bokkeum?

ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋จน์„๊นŒ์š”?

Of course, you can eat Nakji-bokkeum on its own.

๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋จน์–ด๋„ ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”.

But there’s another delicious way to enjoy it!

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋” ๋ง›์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ์žˆ์ฃ !

Put some rice in a bowl, add the spicy octopus and some dried seaweed, and then…

๊ทธ๋ฆ‡์— ๋ฐฅ์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ๊ณผ ๊น€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋„ฃ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ…

Mix it all together! ๐Ÿฅ„

์Šฅ์Šฅ ๋น„๋ฒผ ๋จน์–ด์š”! ๐Ÿฅ„

The spicy sauce coats the rice, and the seaweed adds even more flavor.

๋งค์ฝคํ•œ ์–‘๋…์ด ๋ฐฅ์— ๊ณจ๊ณ ๋ฃจ ์„ž์ด๊ณ  ๊น€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋”ํ•ด์ ธ์„œ ์ •๋ง ๋ง›์žˆ์–ด์š”.


๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Today’s Real Korean

์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ์ง„์งœ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด

๋น„๋ฒผ ๋จน๋‹ค

bibyeo meokda

๐Ÿ‘‰ to mix food together and eat it

๋น„๋น„๋‹ค means “to mix,” especially when mixing food together.

๋น„๋น„๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฐฅ์ด๋‚˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์Œ์‹ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์„ž์„ ๋•Œ ์ž์ฃผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์ด์—์š”.

And when Koreans mix food together before eating it, we often say:

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์„ž์–ด์„œ ๋จน์„ ๋•Œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•ด์š”.

๋น„๋ฒผ ๋จน์–ด์š”.

Bibyeo meogeoyo.
= Mix it together and eat it.

For example:

์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด๋ณผ๊นŒ์š”?

๋ฐฅ์— ๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ๋น„๋ฒผ ๋จน์–ด์š”.
I mix the spicy octopus with rice and eat it.

๋น„๋น”๋ฐฅ์„ ์ž˜ ๋น„๋ฒผ์„œ ๋จน์–ด์š”.
Mix the bibimbap well before eating it.

๊น€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ๋„ ๋„ฃ์–ด์„œ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋น„๋ฒผ ๋จน์–ด์š”.
Add some seaweed and mix it all together.


๐Ÿ’ก Korean Tip

You’ll hear ๋น„๋น„๋‹ค / ๋น„๋ฒผ ๋จน๋‹ค a lot when eating Korean food.

ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์„ ๋จน๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋น„๋น„๋‹ค / ๋น„๋ฒผ ๋จน๋‹ค๋ผ๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ์ •๋ง ์ž์ฃผ ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

๐Ÿš ๋น„๋น”๋ฐฅ → ๋น„๋ฒผ ๋จน์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿœ ๋น„๋น”๋ฉด → ๋น„๋ฒผ ๋จน์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿ™ ๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ + ๋ฐฅ → ๋น„๋ฒผ ๋จน์–ด์š”.

The next time you eat Korean food, try saying:

๋‹ค์Œ์— ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์„ ๋จน์„ ๋•Œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋งํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

“์ž˜ ๋น„๋ฒผ์„œ ๋จน์–ด์š”!”

Mix it well and enjoy!


๐Ÿ“ Where I Ate

The Nakji-bokkeum in today’s video was filmed at a restaurant in Daegu, Korea.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์˜์ƒ ์† ๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ์€ ๋Œ€๊ตฌ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹๋‹น์—์„œ ๋จน์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

์‹ ๋ผ์‹๋‹น ํ•œ์ผ์  | Shilla Restaurant
๐Ÿ“ ๋Œ€๊ตฌ ์ค‘๊ตฌ ์ค‘์•™๋Œ€๋กœ 412-42 1์ธต
๐Ÿ“ 412-42 Jungang-daero, Jung-gu, Daegu, Korea ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท

This isn’t a sponsored post. I’m sharing the location for anyone who was curious about the restaurant in the video. ๐Ÿ˜Š

์‹๋‹น ํ™๋ณด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธ€์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ณ , ์˜์ƒ ์† ์žฅ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์œ„์น˜ ์ •๋ณด๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋‘˜๊ฒŒ์š”. ๐Ÿ˜Š


๐Ÿ’ฌ Your Turn!

๋‚™์ง€๋ณถ์Œ, ๋จน์–ด๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”? ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ”ฅ

Would you try Nakji-bokkeum?

And can you remember today’s Korean expression?

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐฐ์šด ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ‘œํ˜„๋„ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋‚˜๋‚˜์š”?

๐Ÿ‘‰ ๋น„๋ฒผ ๋จน๋‹ค = to mix food together and eat it

Leave a comment and tell me what Korean food you want to learn about next! ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท

๋‹ค์Œ์—๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€์ง€ ๋Œ“๊ธ€๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”!