The respect for others feelings, the way to forgiveness, the understanding that hurt feelings can cause a good person to act wildly are all principles that are beautifully portrayed.
One interesting point, was why cold tofu was eaten but the returning father from prison."According to a Korean food columnist tofu is very hard to make and so the tofu never has the exact same flavour. It's different every time that it's made. And so eating tofu after prison symbolises not repeating a bad deed. In other words turning over a new leaf.
Another theory is that once soybeans have been made into tofu the beans can't be changed back into beans again. So tofu represents starting a new life and not reverting back to old ways which will send you back to prison where you'll have to eat bean rice.
In the scene above from one of my favourite dramas All About Eve (MBC, 2000) gangster In Soo comes out of prison and is met by his subordinates from his gang who greet him with tofu. In this case the tofu seems to represent a kind of wishing that he doesn't get caught again!"
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