Because for one thing, "dashi" refers to sauce made from soybeans, and for another, "miso soup" is the right translation, but what about Korean miso soup? It is customary to refer to Japanese miso soup as miso soup and Korean miso soup (Joseon cuisine) as miso soup. /article/880867 Miso is a savory Japanese condiment, one of the main ingredients in Japanese cuisine. Miso is made by steaming beans, rice, and wheat, then fermenting them with molds and yeasts, and there are many different types of miso due to the composition and ratio of the ingredients. Japanese families often use "miso" to cook soup, but also used in some places to cook Kanto, they like miso so much that they even invented a high-grade product such as matsutake mushroom miso.