On the TV CHOSUN show ‘Gourmet Heo Young-man‘s Baekban Travels’ to be aired on the 12th, the first overseas special will feature a romantic winter trip to Niigata, Japan with broadcaster Eva Popiel. The special flavors and charms of the mysterious snowy land of Niigata will be introduced over the course of two parts.

According to the production team, Eva Popiel, who topped real-time search rankings with her splendid talking skills on ‘Beauties’ Chat’, will be appearing. Eva Popiel, who is of Japanese descent, says that thanks to her Polish descent British father and Japanese mother, she has become a ‘linguist’, speaking three languages: English, Japanese, and Korean. Here‘s a backstory about how he added hidden fun to the trip by acting as a one-day guide for gourmet Heo Young-man, who visited Japan for an overseas special.

On the other hand, Eva Popiel, who has been married for 15 years this year, has two sons who are three years old. When the gourmet asks, “Do you often cook for the kids at home?”, Eva replies, “My husband is good at cooking at home,” praising her caring husband who takes care of all the housework. Although he is usually a caring husband, when asked, “If you were to be born again, would you marry me?”, he adds, “I wouldn’t get married at all,” causing everyone to burst into laughter. Here is the story of Eva Popiel, a Korean housewife who is more comfortable speaking Korean than foreign languages.


Meanwhile, Eva Popiel and gourmet Heo Yeong-man experience a table of rice cooked in a pot made with the best rice from Niigata, ‘Koshihikari’. The Northern Culture Museum, which they visited to see the best taste of rice, is a place where the house of a wealthy person who made his fortune through rice farming in Niigata was opened to the public, and the garden, which looks like a landscape painting, is another thing to see.

Next, they visit a brewery with 250 years of history and taste traditional sake. It is said that the more rice is polished, the more starch remains in the rice, creating a clean-tasting sake without any unnecessary ingredients. The sake from Niigata, where rice is delicious, adds to the anticipation. In addition, we will meet the Katsudon shop that has been protecting the hot spring town for 55 years, as well as the splendid banquet ‘Kaiseki’ at the Japanese accommodation ‘Ryokan’.

The broadcast will be on the 12th at 8:50 PM.

Reporter Hong Se-young, Donga.com projecthong@donga.com