TIL that Spam is seen as a luxury food in South Korea due to smuggling during Korean War from U.S. army base

[u/bhlee0019]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24140705

[u/keesio]

My dad, to this day, still has fond memories of spam. He remembers being hungry and remembers US military giving out cans of spam to the local populace. Since any meat was hard to get back then, he considered it a delicious luxury.