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Jen asked this question about The Vegetarian:

Would Korean people really react to someone becoming a vegetarian as if it were unhealthy and incredibly weird?

Terence Vegetarianism is still pretty uncommon in Korea, and many people would react as if you were just being "fussy" if you are announced that you were a ve…moreVegetarianism is still pretty uncommon in Korea, and many people would react as if you were just being "fussy" if you are announced that you were a vegetarian in a social setting. I don't know about individual families, but so much of Korean cooking is meat-based that it would be a problem. Restaurants are catering for this diet more, partly because of the influx of foreigners; but even here many restaurants react in a somewhat incredulous way if you ask that a meat dish not include meat.(less)

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