๐Ÿ“Why Are People in Korea Lining Up at 5 AM for Chapssaltteok?

๐Ÿ“์š”์ฆ˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ธ๊ธฐ ๋งŽ์€ ๋””์ €ํŠธ! ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก์„ ์‚ฌ๋ ค๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ 5์‹œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ค„์„ ์„œ์š”?

Would you wake up at 5 AM just to buy a dessert? In Korea, some people are doing exactly that! The latest food craze is all about chapssaltteok, a traditional Korean rice cake made from glutinous rice (think of it as Korea's version of mochi). But forget the plain rice cakes you might be imagining. These trendy versions are filled with fresh fruit, creamy yogurt, and rich chocolate!

๋””์ €ํŠธ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ ค๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ 5์‹œ์— ์ผ์–ด๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? ์š”์ฆ˜ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—๋Š” ์ •๋ง ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”! ์š”์ฆ˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก์ด์—์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋ณดํ†ต ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š”. ์•ˆ์— ๊ณผ์ผ, ์š”๊ฑฐํŠธ, ์ดˆ์ฝœ๋ฆฟ์ด ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”!

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One of the brands leading the trend is Hanjeongseon (ํ•œ์ •์„ ), a dessert shop that started in Seoul's trendy Seongsu neighborhood. Its colorful fruit-filled rice cakes have become popular on social media, especially the yogurt varieties featuring fruits like blueberries, peaches, and Shine Muscat grapes. With their chewy outer layer, creamy filling, and beautiful cross-sections, they're perfect for photos.

๊ฐ€์žฅ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์„œ์šธ ์„ฑ์ˆ˜๋™์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ๋””์ €ํŠธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ํ•œ์ •์„ ์ด์—์š”. ์ด ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ์˜ ๊ณผ์ผ ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก์€ SNS์—์„œ ์•„์ฃผ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•„์š”. ํŠนํžˆ ๋ธ”๋ฃจ๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ, ๋ณต์ˆญ์•„, ์ƒค์ธ๋จธ์Šค์บฃ์ด ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ„ ์š”๊ฑฐํŠธ ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก์ด ์ธ๊ธฐ์˜ˆ์š”. ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก์€ ์ซ€๋“ํ•˜๊ณ , ์•ˆ์—๋Š” ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์šด ์š”๊ฑฐํŠธ์™€ ๊ณผ์ผ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฅด๋ฉด ์•ˆ์ด ์˜ˆ์˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ฐ๊ธฐ์—๋„ ์ข‹์•„์š”.


The craze has even reached convenience stores. In early September, GS25 launched a frozen version of Hanjeongseon's yogurt rice cake. By early October, around 700,000 had already been sold. In September, it even outsold canned beer on GS25's delivery and pickup service.

์ด์ œ ํŽธ์˜์ ์—์„œ๋„ ์ด ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก์„ ์‚ด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. 9์›” ์ดˆ์— ํŽธ์˜์  GS25์—์„œ ํ•œ์ •์„ ์˜ ์š”๊ฑฐํŠธ ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก์„ ํŒ”๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์–ผ๋ ค์„œ ํŒŒ๋Š” ๋””์ €ํŠธ์˜ˆ์š”. 10์›” ์ดˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฌด๋ ค 70๋งŒ ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ํŒ๋งค๋์–ด์š”. 9์›”์—๋Š” GS25 ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌยทํ”ฝ์—… ์„œ๋น„์Šค์—์„œ ์บ”๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ํŒ”๋ ธ์–ด์š”!


Then came another hit: Godiva Mochi. On September 10, the Belgian chocolate brand began selling chocolate rice cakes at its new Lotte World Mall store in Jamsil, Seoul. Filled with chocolate ganache, fresh fruit, and sometimes gelato, they cost 7,500 to 9,000 won each and are sold only at that one store.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก๋„ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•„์š”. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ณ ๋””๋ฐ” ์ดˆ์ฝœ๋ฆฟ ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก์ด์—์š”. ๊ณ ๋””๋ฐ”๋Š” ๋ฒจ๊ธฐ์—์˜ ์ดˆ์ฝœ๋ฆฟ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ˆ์š”. 9์›” 10์ผ์— ์„œ์šธ ์ž ์‹ค ๋กฏ๋ฐ์›”๋“œ๋ชฐ์— ์ƒˆ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์—ด๊ณ  ์ด ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก์„ ํŒ”๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ์•ˆ์— ์ดˆ์ฝœ๋ฆฟ ํฌ๋ฆผ๊ณผ ๊ณผ์ผ์ด ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์•„์ด์Šคํฌ๋ฆผ์ด ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ„ ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ํ•œ ๊ฐœ์— 7,500์›์—์„œ 9,000์›์ด์—์š”. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ๋งŒ ์‚ด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.


And people really want them. Some customers start lining up as early as 5 AM, even though sales don't start until 10:30 AM. On secondhand trading apps, some people have even offered to pay extra for someone to buy them on their behalf. While many are eager to try the dessert, others are asking whether any sweet treat is really worth waiting hours for.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ด ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก์„ ์‚ฌ๋ ค๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ 5์‹œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ค„์„ ์„œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์š”! ํŒ๋งค๋Š” ์˜ค์ „ 10์‹œ 30๋ถ„์— ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ 5์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค์š”. ์ค‘๊ณ  ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ์•ฑ์—๋Š” "๋ˆ์„ ๋” ์ค„๊ฒŒ์š”. ๋Œ€์‹  ์‚ฌ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”."๋ผ๋Š” ๊ธ€๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. "๊ผญ ๋จน์–ด ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”!"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ "๋””์ €ํŠธ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค์š”?"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.


This craze also highlights Korea's open-run (์˜คํ”ˆ๋Ÿฐ) culture, where people arrive before a store opens to get their hands on popular or limited-edition products. For many, trying a trending dessert isn't just about the taste. It's also about the excitement of finding it, taking photos, and sharing the experience online.

์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ '์˜คํ”ˆ๋Ÿฐ' ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ˆ์š”. ์˜คํ”ˆ๋Ÿฐ์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์„ ์—ด๊ธฐ ์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”. ์ธ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด๋‚˜ ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ํŒŒ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์„ ์‚ฌ๋ ค๊ณ  ์˜คํ”ˆ๋Ÿฐ์„ ํ•ด์š”. ์š”์ฆ˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ธ๊ธฐ ๋””์ €ํŠธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์Œ์‹์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š”. ์–ด๋ ต๊ฒŒ ์‚ฐ ๋””์ €ํŠธ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ฐ๊ณ , SNS์— ์˜ฌ๋ ค์š”. ์ด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด์—์š”.


So, what do you think? Would you join the early-morning line for a bite of chocolate-filled rice cake, or would you rather wait until the hype dies down?

์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์€ ์–ด๋•Œ์š”? ์ดˆ์ฝœ๋ฆฟ ์ฐน์Œ€๋–ก์„ ๋จน์œผ๋ ค๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ค„์„ ์„ค ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์ค„์–ด๋“ค ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆด ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”?

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