A completed recipe of miyeok guk, Korean seaweed soup. It's made to celebrate birthdays, but also as a means of reminding those who eat it of the postpartum journey their mothers have gone through.

Miyeok guk is a seaweed soup consumed on birthdays in Korea. It is also the first meal served to many new moms after delivering a baby. The soup is believed to help with postpartum recovery by ...

Author-illustrator Hyewon Yum’s picture book A Spoonful of the Sea examines the Korean tradition of miyeok-guk, a seaweed soup that’s served to both nursing mothers the month after they give birth, ...