Hwang Hye-seong

Hwang Hye-seong (hanja: 黃慧性; July 5, 1920 – December 14, 2006) was a professor and researcher of

No.38: the Second Artisan. She was also awarded an Order of Civil Merit in 1986, as well as an Order of Cultural Merit in 1990 for providing and modernizing Korean royal court cuisine. Hwang Hye-seong was registered as a Korean Royal Court Cuisine Possessor of Honor.

Life

Hwang Hye-seong was born in 1920 in

, and Hye-seong learned Korean royal court cuisine from her for 30 years.

In 1972, she was the Technical Expert of Cultural Properties in the Office of Cultural Properties. She measured ingredients for Korean royal court cuisine, and organized

in 1971, and she contributed to the practical passing down and propagating of Korean royal court cuisine.

She exhibited and gave courses on Korean royal court cuisine several times in America, Japan, France, the Philippines, Taiwan and so on.

Hwang is familiar to many South Koreans because she introduced Korean royal court cuisine via mass media. She has one son and three daughters, all of whom work in a job related to Korean royal court cuisine. Han Bok-ryeo, the oldest daughter, is director of the Institute of Korean Royal Cuisine and she was registered as a Third Generation Korean Royal Court Cuisine Artisan. Han Bok-sun, the second daughter, manages the Han Bok-sun Food Culture Laboratory, and Han Bok-jin, the third daughter, works as a Dean of the Culture and Tourism at Jeonju University.

Hwang died of old age at the age of 86, at 12:30 PM, December 14, 2006.

Bibliography

Hwang Hye-seong wrote Ijogungjeongyoritonggo joint work with her teacher, Han Hie-sun, at the first onset. She left a lot of theis and 10 Korean royal court cuisine and traditional food specialty publications.

• 1957, Ijogungjeongyoritonggo (hanja: 李朝宮廷料理通考)
• 1976, Encyclopedias of Korean Traditional Cuisine
• 1982, Cuisine of Korea (hanja: 韓國의 料理)
• 1997, Overall View of Korean Cuisine - 6th Food Life of the Court
• 1998, Our Cuisine 100
• Royal Court Cuisine
• Esthetics of Korea (hanja: 韓國의 味覺)
• Taste of the Tradition
• The Time I Prepared 12 Dishes of
  Surasang
• A Review Study of the Royal Banquet Menu on the 24th of King Kojong in Chosun Dynasty

See also

• Han Bok-ryeo
• Yoon Sook-ja
• Suunjapbang
• Domundaejak

References

• Nate - Personal Information
• Chosun - Death Report Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
• Jungang - Death Report^[usurped]
• Hankyoreh - Death Report
• HWKS - Personal History