Though experience increasing of moslem visitor to South Korea, the effort to find halal cookings in there is a distinct challange for moslem tourist.
It's a good news for them who will visit South Korea, because Korean Tourism Organization launched a guide book for halal cookings. This book helps moslem tourist to find halal food easingly.
The book entitled Muslim Friendly Restaurants in Korea just been available in english and covering 118 restaurants. These restaurants are split into five categories by their "hospitality" level to moslem visitors.
These 5 categories are :
1. Halal certified restaurant,
2. Restaurant which using halal ingredients but not certified yet,
3. Restaurant which serving halal food but also serving alchohol beverages,
4. Restaurant which opens for moslem or usually serves vegetarian food and
5. Free-pork restaurant.
Halal certified restaurant is a restaurant that have been fulfilled the halal criteria from Korea Muslim Federation (KMF), an Islamic organization which established in 1967. KMF give certification to restaurant that have been qualified some tight rules about halal food.
The book also contains highlight of some occupying moslem community in South Korea, include Oman Ambassador for South Korea, students and the other moslem ambassadors. It informingsome places which selling halal products too.
Moslem visitors from asia like Malaysia and Indonesia include into big ten foreign tourist which come to South Korea this year. The online version of this great book available in this January.
As written by Ni Luh Made Pertiwi on kompas.com
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