Employees inspect bricks of bean paste drying and ripening at the traditional sauce maker Seoil Farm in Anseong, 77 kilometers south of Seoul, on Dec. 27, 2022. 

 

The bricks, known as "meju," and salt, among other ingredients, are put into pots to make the Korean soybean paste "doenjang" and the traditional Korean soy sauce "ganjang." (Yonhap)

 

Photos by Hong Ki-won

 

[Hong Ki-won, who took these pictures, is a photo reporter at Yonhap News Agency's Gyeonggi News Headquarters.] 

 

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