ํ๋ ์ฝ๊ณผ
Modern Yakgwa โ From the Altar Table to the Airport Duty-Free
์ผ์ผํ ยท ํ ๋งค๋์ผ ยท ํ๋ฆฌ ํจ์ ์ํฌ๊น์ง ยท Yakketing. Halmaenial. Paris Fashion Week.
Photo: K-Food Stories ยท ์ ์ฌ์์ ๋ ๋ ์ผ์ผ์ด์ค๋ก ๋ค์ด์จ ์ฝ๊ณผ
"Koreans invented a word for it: yakketing โ the panicked online scramble to buy yakgwa before it sells out. The cookie from your grandmother's offering table just crashed a website." โ Modern Yakgwa.
"์ผ์ผํ "์ด๋ผ๋ ๋จ์ด๊ฐ ์๊ฒผ๋ค. ์ฝ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๊ธฐ ์ํ ํฐ์ผํ . ์ ์ฟ์ ์์ ๊ณผ์๊ฐ ํ์ ์ฌํ๋ฅผ ์ผ์ผ์ผฐ๋ค โ ํ๋ ์ฝ๊ณผ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ.
์ผ์ผํ ํ์ฅ ยท The yakketing queue โ dawn, Seoul
For decades, yakgwa was the food you ate because it was there โ on the ritual table, in the holiday gift box, at the senior center. You'd take one bite as a kid, decide it tasted like "adult food," and move on. Nobody under forty was seeking it out. That was just how it was.
Then, around 2022, something shifted. A line started forming outside a small yakgwa shop in Yeonnam-dong. Instagram filled up with close-up shots of the lacquered cookies. Birthday cakes started getting replaced by yakgwa platters. And then came the word: yakketing โ a mashup of yakgwa and ticketing, coined specifically to describe the frantic online rush to buy yakgwa before it sold out. Think concert tickets, but for a honey cookie.
The cultural force behind it is called halmaenial โ grandmother (ํ ๋งค) plus millennial โ officially added to the Korean language dictionary in 2022. Korean Gen Z started reclaiming the flavors of their grandmothers and making them their own aesthetic. Black sesame lattes, mugwort cake, injeolmi ice cream โ and at the center of it all, yakgwa. The food that spent centuries on ancestral rites tables is now the most-saved dessert on Korean Instagram.
์ฝ๊ณผ๋ ์ค๋ซ๋์ "ํ ๋จธ๋ ๊ณผ์"์๋ค. ์ ์ฌ์, ๋ช ์ ๊ณผ์ผ ๋ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ์, ๊ฒฝ๋ก๋น ๋ค๊ณผ ํ ์ด๋ธ. ์ด๋ฆด ๋ ํ ์ ๋จน๊ณ "์ด๋ฅธ ๋ง์ด๋ค"๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํ ์ ์๋ค๋ฉด, ๋น์ ๋ง ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฒ ์๋๋ค. ์์ญ ๋ ๋์ ์ฝ๊ณผ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์กด์ฌํ๋ค โ ์ข์ ์์์ด์ง๋ง, ์ ์ ์ฌ๋์ด ์ผ๋ถ๋ฌ ์ฐพ์ ๋จน๋ ๊ฑด ์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก.
๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ 2022๋ , ๋ญ๊ฐ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค. ์์ธ ์ฐ๋จ๋์ ์์ ์ฝ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ์์ ์ค์ด ์๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. SNS์ ์ฝ๊ณผ ์ฌ์ง์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ค๊ณ , ์กฐ๊ฐ ์ผ์ดํฌ ๋์ ์ฝ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์์ผ์์ ๋ฑ์ฅํ๋ค. ๊ธ๊ธฐ์ผ "์ผ์ผํ (yakketing)"์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ์กฐ์ด๊น์ง ์๊ฒผ๋ค โ ์ฝ๊ณผ ํฐ์ผํ , ์ฆ ์จ๋ผ์ธ ์คํ๋ฐ์ ๋ปํ๋ ๋ง. BTS ์ฝ์ํธ ํฐ์ผ์ ์ก๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์๋๊ฐ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค.
์ด ํ์์ ์ด๋ฆ์ "ํ ๋งค๋์ผ(halmaenial)"์ด๋ค. ํ ๋จธ๋(ํ ๋งค) + ๋ฐ๋ ๋์ผ์ ํฉ์ฑ์ด๋ก 2022๋ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ตญ์ด์ ์ ์กฐ์ด๋ก ๋ฑ์ฌ๋๋ค. ํ์์ ๋ผํ , ์ธ์ ๋ฏธ ์์ด์คํฌ๋ฆผ, ์ฅ ์ผ์ดํฌ โ ํ๊ตญ MZ์ธ๋๊ฐ ์ ํต ์ฌ๋ฃ์ ๋ง์ ์ฟจํ๊ฒ ์ฌ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ ๊ฑฐ๋ค. ์ฝ๊ณผ๋ ๊ทธ ํ๋ฆ์ ์ ์ ์ ์๋ค. ๋ ์ด์ ์ด๋ฅธ ๋ง์ด ์๋๋ค. ์ง๊ธ์ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ง์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
For decades, yakgwa was the food you ate because it was there โ on the ritual table, in the holiday gift box, at the senior center. You'd take one bite as a kid, decide it tasted like "adult food," and move on. Nobody under forty was seeking it out. That was just how it was.
Then around 2022, something shifted. A line formed outside a small yakgwa shop in Yeonnam-dong. Instagram filled up with close-up shots of lacquered cookies. And then came the word: yakketing โ yakgwa + ticketing, coined to describe the frantic online rush to buy it before it sold out. Think concert tickets, but for a honey cookie.
2022๋ , ์์ธ ์ฐ๋จ๋์ ์์ ์ฝ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ์์ ์ค์ด ์๊ฒผ๋ค. SNS์ ์ฝ๊ณผ ์ฌ์ง์ด ์ฌ๋ผ์ค๊ณ , ๊ธ๊ธฐ์ผ "์ผ์ผํ "์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ์กฐ์ด๊ฐ ์๊ฒผ๋ค โ ์ฝ๊ณผ ์จ๋ผ์ธ ์คํ๋ฐ์ ๋ปํ๋ ๋ง. BTS ์ฝ์ํธ ํฐ์ผ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์๋๊ฐ ํ์ํ๋ค.
์ด ํ์์ ์ด๋ฆ์ "ํ ๋งค๋์ผ(halmaenial)" โ ํ ๋จธ๋+๋ฐ๋ ๋์ผ. 2022๋ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ตญ์ด์ ์ ์กฐ์ด ๋ฑ์ฌ. ํ์์ยท์ธ์ ๋ฏธยท์ฅ โ MZ์ธ๋๊ฐ ์ ํต ์ฌ๋ฃ๋ฅผ ์ฟจํ๊ฒ ์ฌ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๋ ํ๋ฆ์ด๋ค. ์ฝ๊ณผ๋ ๊ทธ ์ค์ฌ์ ์๋ค.
"From the ancestral rites table to the Paris Fashion Week guest table. Same cookie. Different century."
The proof is in the packaging. Yakgwa is now available in eight-flavor gift sets at Seoul's most-visited Olive Young store in Myeongdong โ a shop where 95% of customers are foreign tourists. Premium brands like Saenggwabang (์๊ณผ๋ฐฉ) have been selected as guest desserts at Paris Fashion Week. Foreign tourist spending on Korean traditional confections jumped 76.9% year-on-year. Yakgwa didn't just go mainstream. It went global.
์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ ํฌ์ฅ ๋ฐ์ค์ ์๋ค. ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๊ด๊ด๊ฐ ๋งค์ถ 95%์ธ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ธ์ ๋ช ๋ ํ์ด์ ์ฝ๊ณผ ๋ธ๋๋๊ฐ ์ ์ ํ๋ค. ์๊ณผ๋ฐฉ(Saenggwabang)์ ํ๋ฆฌ ํจ์ ์ํฌ ๊ฒ์คํธ ๋์ ํธ๋ก ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๊ด๊ด๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณผ ์๋น๋์ ์ ๋ ๋๋น 76.9% ์ฆ๊ฐ. ์ฝ๊ณผ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ ํ์ด ์๋๋ผ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ฝํ ์ธ ๊ฐ ๋๋ค.
The proof is in the packaging. Premium brands like Saenggwabang have been selected as guest desserts at Paris Fashion Week. Yakgwa is now on the shelves at Olive Young Myeongdong โ where 95% of customers are foreign tourists. Foreign spending on Korean traditional confections jumped 76.9% year-on-year. This isn't a trend. It's a positioning.
์๊ณผ๋ฐฉ์ ํ๋ฆฌ ํจ์ ์ํฌ ๊ฒ์คํธ ๋์ ํธ๋ก ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋งค์ถ 95%์ธ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ธ์ ๋ช ๋ ํ์ด์ ์ฝ๊ณผ ๋ธ๋๋๊ฐ ์ ์ ํ๋ค. ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๊ด๊ด๊ฐ ํ๊ณผ ์๋น 76.9% ์ฆ๊ฐ. ์ฝ๊ณผ๋ ์ ํ์ด ์๋๋ผ ํฌ์ง์ ๋์ด๋ค.
์ฝ๊ณผ ์ฟ ํค
๊ฐ์ฑ์ฃผ์
ํธ์์
์ผ์ชฝ๋ถํฐ: ์ฝ๊ณผ ์ฟ ํค ยท ๊ฐ์ฑ์ฃผ์ ยท ํธ์์ ์ฝ๊ณผ
They Invented A Word For It
Yakketing = yakgwa + ticketing. When a popular brand's online inventory drops, you have roughly five minutes before it sells out โ the same reflexes required for a BTS concert apply.
"์ผ์ผํ "์ ์ฝ๊ณผ+ํฐ์ผํ . ์ธ๊ธฐ ๋ธ๋๋ ์์ฝ์ด ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ ์๊ฐ, BTS ์ฝ์ํธ ์๋งค์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋๊ฐ ํ์ํ๋ค. 5๋ถ์ด๋ฉด ๋๋๋ค.
Grandma's Aesthetic Is Trending
Halmaenial โ grandmother + millennial โ was officially added to the Korean dictionary in 2022. Black sesame, injeolmi, mugwort: Gen Z is reclaiming traditional flavors as their own. Yakgwa is the face of the movement.
"ํ ๋งค๋์ผ"์ 2022๋ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ตญ์ด์ ๊ณต์ ์ ์กฐ์ด ๋ฑ์ฌ. ํ์์ยท์ธ์ ๋ฏธยท์ฅ โ MZ์ธ๋๊ฐ ํ ๋จธ๋ ๋ง์ ์์ ๋ง์ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ผ๋ก ์ฌํด์ํ๊ณ ์๋ค. ์ฝ๊ณผ๋ ๊ทธ ์์ง.
Meet The K-Donut: ๊ฐ์ฑ์ฃผ์
Yakgwa's cousin โ Gaeseong Juak (๊ฐ์ฑ์ฃผ์ ) โ is made with glutinous rice flour and makgeolli, fried until chewy inside and crispy outside. The internet has started calling it the "K-donut," and it's having its own quiet moment alongside yakgwa.
์ฝ๊ณผ์ ์ฌ์ด, ๊ฐ์ฑ์ฃผ์ ์ ์ฐน์+๋ง๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋ก ํ๊ธด ํ๊ณผ๋ค. ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐ์ญ, ์์ ์ซ๊น. ์์ฆ "K-๋๋"์ด๋ผ ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ฝ๊ณผ ์ ํ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์กฐ์ฉํ ๋จ๊ณ ์๋ค.
Now At Your Corner Store
Yakgwa made it to the convenience store โ and it's not a compromise. GS25's yakgwa cookie line, CU's seasonal flavors: the flavor is genuine, the price is under 2,000 won. The same taste that sells out in premium gift boxes is on the shelf next to the ramyeon.
ํธ์์ ์ฝ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์ง์ง๋ค. GS25 ์ด์์ง ํตํต์ด ์ฝ๊ณผ์ฟ ํค, CU ์ฝ๊ณผ ์๋ฆฌ์ฆ โ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์ ๋ธ๋๋์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ DNA๋ฅผ 2,000์ ์ดํ๋ก. ๋ผ๋ฉด ์์ ์ฝ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์๋ค.
์๊ณผ๋ฐฉ
Saenggwabang / Saint Gout de Pain
Named after the royal kitchen annex in Gyeongbokgung Palace. Each piece takes a minimum of 4 days to make โ temperature, humidity, and drying time all hand-monitored. No corn syrup: only jocheong (rice malt syrup) made from domestic rice. Eight flavors including jocheong, black sesame, matcha, and sweet pumpkin-raspberry.
Selected as the guest dessert at the 2024 F/W Paris Fashion Week. Now stocked at Olive Young Central Myeongdong Town โ the store where 95% of customers are foreign tourists. Also available at Kurly (Market Kurly) and the official website.
๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ ๋ณ์ ์ ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฆ์์ ๋ฐ์จ ๋ธ๋๋. ํ ์์ ์ต์ 4์ผ, ๋ฌผ์ฟ ์์ด ๊ตญ๋ด์ฐ ์ ์กฐ์ฒญ๋ง ์ฌ์ฉ. 8๊ฐ์ง ๋ง: ์กฐ์ฒญยทํ๋ฏธยท๋๋ผ์งยท๋ น์ฐจยท๋ฐ๋๋ผ ๋๋ฃฝ์งยท์ปคํผ ์ค๋ ์งยทํ์์ยท๋จํธ๋ฐ ๋ผ์ฆ๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ.
2024 F/W ํ๋ฆฌ ํจ์ ์ํฌ ๊ฒ์คํธ ๋์ ํธ ์ ์ . ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ธ์ ์ผํธ๋ด ๋ช ๋ ํ์ด ์ ์ . ๋ง์ผ์ปฌ๋ฆฌยท๊ณต์ ํํ์ด์ง ์จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ตฌ๋งค ๊ฐ๋ฅ.
Named after the royal kitchen annex in Gyeongbokgung. Each piece takes 4 days minimum โ no corn syrup, only domestic rice malt syrup. Eight flavors including black sesame, matcha, and sweet pumpkin-raspberry. Selected as guest dessert at 2024 F/W Paris Fashion Week.
๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ ๋ณ์ ์ ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฆ. ์ต์ 4์ผ ์ ์กฐ, ๊ตญ๋ด์ฐ ์กฐ์ฒญ๋ง ์ฌ์ฉ. 8๊ฐ์ง ๋ง. 2024 F/W ํ๋ฆฌ ํจ์ ์ํฌ ๊ฒ์คํธ ๋์ ํธ ์ ์ .
๊ณจ๋ ํผ์ค (Golden Piece)
One of the brands that led the yakgwa revival. Offers seasonal and specialty flavors โ sweet pumpkin, black sesame, matcha โ alongside the classic. Available through their online store and department store pop-ups.
์ฝ๊ณผ ์ ํ์ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ๋ธ๋๋ ์ค ํ๋. ๋จํธ๋ฐยทํ์์ยท๋ง์ฐจ ๋ฑ ๋ค์ํ ๋ง์ผ๋ก ํ์ฅ. ์จ๋ผ์ธ ์คํ ์ด + ๋ฐฑํ์ ํ์ ๋์ ์ด์.
One of the brands that sparked the yakgwa revival. Seasonal flavors: sweet pumpkin, black sesame, matcha. Available online and at department store pop-ups.
์ฝ๊ณผ ์ ํ์ ์ด๋ ๋ธ๋๋. ๋จํธ๋ฐยทํ์์ยท๋ง์ฐจ ๋ฑ ์์ฆ ํ๋ ์ด๋ฒ. ์จ๋ผ์ธ ์คํ ์ด + ๋ฐฑํ์ ํ์ .
๋ด๋ (Bom-nal)
Traditional-method handmade yakgwa with clean, minimal gift packaging โ popular for weddings and corporate gifting. Online orders available, but limited drops sell out fast. Follow their Instagram for restock alerts.
์ ํต ๋ฐฉ์ ์์ ์ฝ๊ณผ. ์ ๋ฌผ์ฉ ๋ฐ์ค ํฌ์ฅ์ด ๊น๋ํด ๋ต๋กํยท๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ธ๊ธฐ. ์จ๋ผ์ธ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ ์คํ๋ฐ ๋น๋๊ฐ ๋์ผ๋ ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ ํ๋ก์ฐ ํ์.
Traditional-method, minimal gift packaging. Popular for weddings and corporate gifts. Limited drops sell out fast โ follow their Instagram for restock alerts.
์ ํต ๋ฐฉ์ ์์ ์ฝ๊ณผ. ๋ต๋กํยท๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ธ๊ธฐ. ์คํ๋ฐ ๋น๋ ๋์ โ ์ธ์คํ ํ๋ก์ฐ ํ์.
GS25
์ด์์ง ํตํต์ด ์ฝ๊ณผ์ฟ ํค
Available at every GS25 nationwide. The flavor DNA of yakgwa reinterpreted as a snack cookie โ honey-sesame aroma, satisfying chew. Under 1,500 won.
์ ๊ตญ GS25 ์ด๋์๋. ์ฝ๊ณผ ๋ง์ ์ฟ ํค๋ก ์ฌํด์ โ ๊ฟยท์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ ํฅ, ์ซ๊นํ ์๊ฐ. 1,500์๋.
Available at every GS25. Yakgwa flavor in cookie form โ honey-sesame aroma, satisfying chew. Under 1,500 won.
์ ๊ตญ GS25. ์ฝ๊ณผ ๋ง ์ฟ ํค ํํ. ๊ฟยท์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ ํฅ, ์ซ๊น. 1,500์๋.
CU
์ฝ๊ณผ ์๋ฆฌ์ฆ (์์ฆ ๋ณ๋)
CU rotates its yakgwa lineup by season. Check the front display when you walk in โ if it's there, it's worth picking up. Pairs well with their canned coffee.
CU๋ ์์ฆ๋ง๋ค ์ฝ๊ณผ ๋ผ์ธ์ ์ด ๋ฐ๋๋ค. ์ ๊ตฌ ๋์คํ๋ ์ด์์ ์ต์ ๋ผ์ธ ํ์ธ. ์บ์ปคํผ์ ๊ฐ์ด ๋จน์ผ๋ฉด ์์ธ๋ก ์ ์ด์ธ๋ฆฐ๋ค.
CU rotates by season โ check the front display when you walk in. Pairs well with their canned coffee.
์์ฆ๋ง๋ค ๋ผ์ธ์ ๋ณ๊ฒฝ. ์ ๊ตฌ ๋์คํ๋ ์ด ํ์ธ. ์บ์ปคํผ์ ์ ์ด์ธ๋ฆฐ๋ค.
Convenience Store Tip
Can't make it to a premium pop-up? The convenience store versions are a genuine introduction to the flavor. Once you understand what yakgwa tastes like, the premium brands make much more sense โ and you'll understand why people queue at dawn for them.
ํ์ ์ ๋ชป ๊ฐ๋๋ผ๋ ํธ์์ ์ฝ๊ณผ๋ก ๋จผ์ ๋ง์ ํ์ธํด๋ด. ๊ทธ ๋ค์์ ์๊ณผ๋ฐฉ์ด๋ ๊ณจ๋ ํผ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ณด๋ฉด ์ ์ผ์ผํ ์ ํ๋์ง ์ดํด๊ฐ ๋๋ค.
Incheon Airport duty-free (Lotte and Shilla) carries Korean traditional confectionery brands at the food and gift section. Look for these on departure.
์ธ์ฒ๊ณตํญ ๋กฏ๋ฐยท์ ๋ผ๋ฉด์ธ์ ํ๊ตญ์ํ ์ฝ๋์์ ๊ตฌ๋งค ๊ฐ๋ฅ. ์ถ๊ตญ ์ ์ฒดํฌ.
Incheon Airport duty-free โ Lotte and Shilla โ carries Korean traditional confectionery at the food and gift section. Look for these before departure.
์ธ์ฒ๊ณตํญ ๋กฏ๋ฐยท์ ๋ผ๋ฉด์ธ์ ํ๊ตญ์ํ ์ฝ๋. ์ถ๊ตญ ์ ์ฒดํฌ.
Stock and brands change by season. Check each duty-free app before your flight to confirm current inventory. ์์ฆยท์ฌ๊ณ ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ฏ๋ก ์ถ๋ฐ ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฉด์ธ์ ์ฑ์์ ํ์ธ ๊ถ์ฅ. Stock and brands change by season โ check the duty-free app before your flight. / ์์ฆยท์ฌ๊ณ ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ฏ๋ก ๋ฉด์ธ์ ์ฑ ์ฌ์ ํ์ธ ๊ถ์ฅ.
How to Say It
"์ฝ๊ณผ" = Yak-gwa
Yak rhymes with "lock" ยท gwa sounds like the start of "guava"
์ผ์ผํ
= Yak-ke-ting (just like "yakgwa" + "ticketing")
ํ ๋งค๋์ผ = Hal-mae-ni-eol
์ฝ๊ณผ ์๋ฆฌ์ฆ ยท Yakgwa Series