Drying bean paste to make soy sauce

A cat sitting on a large clay jar basks in the sunshine at a traditional sauce maker in Gangneung, a town on South Korea's northeast coast, on Dec. 4, 2025, with bricks of bean paste drying and ripening in the background. 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)

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