Abstract
Based on the hypothesis that the dishes school children to want to eat on their birthday must be the dishes that they love, the food preference of school children (in the 1st 6th grades) was investigated in Kyoto, Japan and in Seoul, Korea. Although the total number of varieties of menus drawn was more by the Japanese pupils than the Korean pupils, the number of menus drawn by one pupil was less by the Japanese pupils than the Korean pupils. This means that the preferred menus of Korean pupils more resembles each other, and that of the Japanese pupils were different from each other depending on their diet experiences. Through their drawings, the progress of socialization of the diet life of pupils and their food preference to Western-style dishes and meat dishes were shown to be promoted in both countries. Traditional dishes on special days in both countries were not the dishes that the pupils wanted to eat.
