Clase de Cocina Coreano Norte con Defector : Comida & Historias personales

This was, without a doubt, one of the most memorable experiences. It’s so much more than a 'cooking class', it is a powerful cultural exchange. Our hosts shared incredibly moving personal stories about their life and their journey, which gave such deep context to the food we prepared together. The dishes were simple, authentic and delicious, but the real highlight was the conversation. If you are looking for a genuine, human-to-human connection and a rare insight into North Korean culture, I cannot recommend this enough. It was an eye-opening and deeply emotional experience that I will remember for a long time.

Very interesting stories from the hosts and delicious food. I was engrossed by their personal experiences and the food they helped us make was excellent. I certainly recommend this establishment for anyone seeking good food, amazing people, and interesting stories.

This class was great! The stories were really interesting and the food was delicious. The venue is really nice and the hosts were kind and exited to share their stories.

Genuinely such an amazing experience, gave me a completely new perspective on a country Ive only heard rumors about. They were so nice, helpful, and detailed in their storytelling.

Wow, this dinner was life-changing, to get to hear both stories was so deep. The food was amazing and it was cool to get to make it yourself. The Rustic Pathways group thanks you for everything!

Must-do!!!! incredibly cool to hear about and the food tasted great.

I will be recommending this experience to anyone and everyone. I brought a student group to this cooking class and while it was a wonderful class that taught us about preparing traditional North Korean food, it was also a profound experience to hear about Chef Se Eun and Jun’s lives. We all left feeling moved, educated, and incredibly grateful. I will never forget this experience! THANK YOU Se Eun and Jun for sharing your stories with us. If you are in Seoul and you only do one thing, this should be it!!!!!

This is one of those landmark moments in your life that you never want to forget. We just came from doing a DMZ tour in the morning so everything was very real and visceral in our minds. Highly recommended to pair the two. We had a group of 11 teenagers and 4 adults. Every single person was impacted by the stories our hosts shared of life in NK, their incredible escape, history of the area, their current lives, and hopes for the future. We were on a 2 week Japan/Korea trip and out of that whole 2 weeks, this may have been the absolute pinnacle experience.

Jun and Se Eun were amazing hosts. Hearing them tell their stories was so emotional and thought provoking. They answered all our questions with thoughtfulness and positivity. It was also a tremendous experience to combine all of that storytelling with food that connects culturally to all that we learned. 100% would recommend.

Hard to put into words the emotions I felt. Incredible and one of the highlights of this year.