This study is an examination of how western style food diffused, particulary addressing the korean Peninsula during the priod between Japanese rule and around the 1980s. The work is an attempt to think about how Korea and South Korea introduced the west, the so-called process of modernization, from a different aspecto. The case of the Korean Peninsula characterizes the spread of the Western modern age via Japan. Through the process by which Japan was exerting and enhancing its effective control after the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo- Japanese War, Japanized Western style food gradually spread. Although this can be regarded as the "West" translated by Japan, important questions persist as to the extent to which Korean people recognized it as the "West" and what they accepted and rejected.

After 1945, when Japan was defeated, the American style "West" that had direct influence was introduced to South Korea. At the same time, when the "West," with canned food and bread, found its way into everyday life in South Korea, foreign sailors came to call at a port. Western food restaurants opened around port cities. Since the 1980s, with the economic development of South Korea, it spread to younger generations, including office workers and students. Although sometimes creating decadent trends, Western food restaurants spread gradually through South Korea society as fashionable places for young people. In the 1990s, Western style food transformed into food that families enjoyed casually, with the advance of fast foods and in the form of family restaurants. Results show that Western style food there adapted to the changing times.