![]() “Jina’s stockists are worldwide, and we manufacture some of the production in Seoul, so we go there for a few months each year. The couple work together on some aspects of Pyo’s fashion label, with Bourke involved in the logistics. It makes New York feel positively parochial.” South Korea, and Seoul in particular, is the most fast-paced, efficient, forward thinking, futuristic city. “That was amazing, to introduce my parents to Korea. Bourke, a Ballymaloe trained chef who worked with Skye Gyngell at Petersham Nurseries, explains: “We married in Ireland in December 2011 and Jina’s family came over for that, and then in April 2012 in Seoul and all my family travelled over. Three years later they got married, not once, but twice. They met in 2008 in a bar in London, where Bourke studied film and television (it runs in the family director Alan Gilsenan is a cousin) and Pyo was completing a Masters at Central St Martins. The kitchen in question isn’t in Seoul, however, it’s in West Hampstead, London, where Bourke, a food writer, private chef and food stylist who grew up in south Co Dublin, and Pyo, a fashion designer from Seoul, live and work. It’s a long way from Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, to Gangnam, Seoul (the place that inspired the viral music video Gangnam Style), and the connection is Irish/Korean couple Jordan Bourke and Rejina Pyo (right), who have published a book, Our Korean Kitchen. ![]()
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