The first was called I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki. In other words, she feels a bit sad nearly all the time. It is a sadness that sometimes stops her from wanting to live, but that ...

Baek Sehee writes in her memoir, “I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki,” about her struggles with mental health as a ...

A magical go-to food enjoyed by South Koreans is "tteokbokki," a popular snack of chewy rice cakes slathered in a spicy sauce made from red pepper paste with additions of fish cakes and boiled ...

If she’s truly hopeless, why does she still crave tteokbokki? Is this just what life is? GUEST: Dr. Jane Park, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, and Shona Yang, a Sydney ...