JEJU – On the holiday island of Jeju, it is hard to miss the Jeju black pork barbecue restaurants that seem to lurk in every corner. In fact, there are more than 500 such eateries on the island of some 700,000 residents.
In South Korea, grilled pork belly, or _samgyeopsa_l, is so popular that there is a day to commemorate the Koreans’ love for the fatty cut – March 3 – an onomatopoeic pun on _samgyeopsal_.
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