現代化되는 濟州 飮食을 위한 陶瓷食器 디자인硏究

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to understand Jeju pottery culture and kitchen utensils and identify the cultural meaning of specific Jeju foods. This will be accomplished by exploring Jeju's unique and diverse natural environment as well as Jeju's past and present food culture characteristics. Based on this research, the principal aim is to select contemporary food and attempt to introduce newly designed pottery tableware for it. Rapidly changing modern society requires the new tableware design to accommodate a changing palate. Although Jeju has a beautiful natural environment, in the old days people had to struggle to survive in a tough environment, and they did not have large amounts of time for preparing meals. So, they cooked with simple ingredients and used recipes with limited seasonings, keeping the original flavor of the ingredients as the focus. That has always been a characteristic of Jeju food. However, since the Korean War, the influx of people from mainland, industrialization, and the breaking up of extended families in favor of a more nuclear family structure have all influenced Jeju food, which has been harmonized with tastes from outside of Jeju both nationally and internationally. Along with that, local food, slow food, and well-being movements have modified traditional Jeju cuisine into new trends of contemporary Jeju food. Modernization of the Jeju food is varied; some of these dishes have already been popularized. So creating tableware to accommodate these dishes should be required. For the purpose of showcasing the tableware designs, I chose several contemporary Jeju food, such as sushi, ddeok(Korean rice cake), salad with Jeju indigenous vegetables, tri-colored buckwheat, bingddeok (a buckwheat pancake rolled with boiled radish and seasoning), hijikiajeon (Jeju seaweed pancake), Jeju pork sandwiches and Jeju pork cutlets. This paper presents the tableware design for these foods, which supports and harmonizes with contemporary Jeju cuisine concepts in both a functional and artistic way. This will provide an opportunity to relate the traditional Jeju image and local foods with new ceramic tableware designs, which have aesthetic shapes and colors , new image structures, and a reasonable way of being produced. Also it will give insight into how the pottery products can fulfill various consumers'demands. This paper describes an explorative tableware design project for contemporary Jeju cuisine. It hopes to preserve the identity of Jeju culture while leading the ongoing changes of Jeju food towards a more meaningful connection to ceramics, and to drive inspiration for new tableware ideas which will have pragmatic and decorative purposes while also contributing to the local gastronomic culture.