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Traditional Flavor, Premium Doenjang
[Jook Jang Yeon] Premium Traditional Doenjang (500g)
- 2 ingredients only
- 96% Korean soybeans
- No MSG or preservatives
- Aged up to 1,000 days
Jook Jang Yeon is a famous artisan brand for traditional doenjang and gochujang. Its pastes are sold in Korea’s department stores as premium-grade jang.
Today, we offer Jook Jang Yeon’s Premium Traditional Doenjang (죽장연 프리미엄 전통된장). It’s made the traditional way, with only two natural ingredients: soybeans (96%) and sea salt (4%). That’s it.
Unlike store-bought brands, there’s no added MSG, preservatives or sugar. With high-quality ingredients and slow fermentation, doenjang doesn’t need anything added to taste deep and savory.
The soybeans are grown locally in Korea, near Pohang. The sea salt is harvested off Korea’s east coast and dry-aged for 3 years before use, which removes the slight bitterness in the salt crystals and deepens its taste.
The soybeans are washed, boiled and mashed into meju bricks, which dry under rice straw so fermentation can begin. The bricks then move into large earthenware jars and slowly age outdoors for up to 1,000 days.
The result is a deeply savory, traditional-tasting doenjang. If you’ve never tried artisan-made doenjang, look no further!
So what’s inside?
Full Ingredients List Soybeans 96%, sun-dried sea salt 4%. Both from Korea.
In the box One 500 g glass jar. Made by Jook Jang Yeon (죽장연) in Pohang, South Korea.
To keep Refrigerate once it arrives, and always after opening. Best before the date printed on the front or bottom of the jar.
Good to know Contains soy. Doenjang is naturally fermented, so it keeps releasing a little gas inside the jar. We vacuum-seal every jar before it ships to prevent leaks, but changes in air pressure during the flight can still push out a little gas or paste. It’s still safe to eat, and a small leak isn’t grounds for a refund or exchange.
[Jook Jang Yeon] Premium Traditional Doenjang
Premium doenjang, made the traditional way
Jook Jang Yeon is a renowned artisan maker of traditional doenjang and gochujang. Its pastes are sold in Korea’s leading department stores and are a popular premium food gift.
This doenjang is made with just two ingredients: 96% Korea-grown soybeans and 4% sea salt. No MSG, no preservatives, no sugar, nothing else.
Slow, natural fermentation gives it a rich, deeply savory, traditional flavor. Available in a 500 g jar.
From a hidden mountain village to your table
Deep in the valleys of Korea’s Taebaek Mountains lies Jukjang (竹長), a village shaped by history, integrity and quiet resilience.
With clean air and pure water, Jukjang has kept traditional Korean fermentation alive for generations, aging its jang in earthenware onggi jars so deep, natural flavor develops over time.
Slow, natural fermentation
Using soybeans grown locally in this pristine valley, artisans make authentic doenjang (soybean paste) and gochujang (red pepper paste) through slow, natural fermentation.
The pastes are aged with patience, so complex depth, balance and umami develop naturally over time.
A village partnership since 1999
In 1999, a formal partnership was set up to support Jukjang’s farming community and keep its agricultural traditions alive. What began as a local collaboration grew into a shared mission: to bring the honest flavors of this hidden mountain village beyond its borders.
Today, Jukjang stands for clean ingredients, time-honored craft and food made with integrity, from a remote Korean valley to your table.
Just soybeans and sea salt
The soybeans are grown in Korea, near Pohang. The sea salt is harvested off Korea’s east coast and dry-aged for 3 years before use, which removes its slight bitterness and deepens its taste.
With ingredients this good and a slow ferment, doenjang doesn’t need anything added to taste deep and savory.
How it’s made: boiled in traditional cauldrons
The Korean soybeans are carefully washed, then gently boiled in large traditional cauldrons to prepare them for fermentation.
Mashed and shaped into meju
After boiling, the soybeans are mashed and formed into meju bricks, the foundation of traditional Korean fermentation.
Dried under rice straw
The bricks are left to dry under rice straw for an extended period, so natural fermentation can begin.
Hung to ferment in the open air
Next, the meju bricks are tied with straw ropes and hung in a well-ventilated space.
There they meet naturally occurring microbes in the air. These beneficial bacteria and molds settle on the bricks and drive the fermentation.
Aged in earthenware jars for up to 1,000 days
After the first fermentation, the meju moves into traditional Korean earthenware jars, where it sits outdoors and slowly ages for up to 1,000 days.
Kept in a clean environment, it becomes a doenjang with rich, layered, deeply savory flavor.
From soybeans to meju, start to finish
A short clip from Jook Jang Yeon’s workshop.
The heart of it: the Jookjang villagers
Since Jook Jang Yeon was founded more than 10 years ago, it has worked alongside about 20 mothers from Jookjang village. They are farmers by trade, growing apples, soybeans and red peppers through the season.
In the harvest months they give themselves fully to their fields. From November through May, they come back to make jang, so the land connects directly to the fermentation.
Made from what they grow
The care these mothers bring is at the core of Jook Jang Yeon’s flavor. They make the jang with soybeans and red peppers they’ve grown themselves.
The true masters of Jook Jang Yeon
As Jook Jang Yeon puts it, its growth is inseparable from the village’s prosperity. In every sense, the mothers of Jookjang are the true masters of Jook Jang Yeon.
Full Ingredients List
Premium Traditional Doenjang
Ingredient
%
Origin
Soybeans (대두)
96%
South Korea
Sun-dried sea salt (천일염)
4%
South Korea
Allergy: contains soy
Original label (Korean)
Real Product Photos
Straight from Korea
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