I *heart* eggs
Seems like a dorky thing to say, but in the past year or so I've really come to deeply appreciate this simple food. In Canada I was always scared off by the cholesterol mafia but here in Korea eggs are just good eats.
When you buy 'em in the store here, tis not a dozen but a box of 10. Almost all eggs for sale are brown. Often as not they're not refrigerated either. At pretty much any convenience store you can buy a single raw egg to chuck into your instant ramyeon or you can get ready to eat boiled eggs. They always come with tiny packets of salt for dippin'. At the jjimjilbang (a kind of public sauna) I've been going to recently in the hottest room trays of eggs are baked on top of the central heater as people lounge and sweat on the floor below.
As far as eatin 'em, for breakfast I now usually eat one egg (normally scrambled but occasionally in an omelette) with a side of black beans boiled in sweet soy sauce (검은콩조림) some seaweed salad, some sliced cucumber and a piece of cheese. Sounds weird but it is amazingly tasty. Throughout my solo travels around Korea this

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What's there not to love about eggs?
The wife and I, our standard breakfast is ramen in miso with green onion and chopped fried egg. It's the crispy egg (gotta fry it to a light brown in some toasted sesame oil) that makes it. It's full of win.
Those egg-breads sound pretty tasty.
btw. the image in your post is borked
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