nung
/nʌŋ/
noun
- A type of traditional Korean wooden or stoneware vessel used for storing or fermenting food, such as kimchi or soy sauce.
- He carefully cleaned the nung before storing the new batch of sauce.
- My grandmother keeps her kimchi in a large nung buried in the backyard.
- The market sold handmade nungs for fermenting soybean paste.
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