The main characteristics of Korean diet are: high protein, more vegetables, light preference, not greasy, mainly cold and spicy. Koreans have been eating rice as their staple food since ancient times, and their dishes are mainly stewed and roasted, and they basically don't cook. Koreans prefer noodles, beef, chicken and dog meat to steamed bread, mutton and duck.

There are many kinds of diets in Korea, because Korea used to be an agricultural society. Therefore, rice has been the staple food since ancient times. Recently, the Korean diet consists of various vegetables, meat and fish. Fermented pickled foods such as kimchi (fermented spicy cabbage), seafood sauce (pickled seafood) and soybean sauce (fermented soybean) are famous for their nutritional value and special taste. The characteristic of Korean table setting is that all food is set at the same time. The number of traditional dishes is three for the poor and twelve for the royal family. The placement of the table varies according to the noodles or meat. Compared with China and Japan, Korean food provides soup, and rice spoons are used more frequently in Korea.