Cho Ok Hwa, the 20th Korean master of the traditional food and the only holder of the Andong-Soju manufacturing know-how, began a movement for the emancipation of women at the end of 1940.
The manufacturing process for Andong Soju has been haded down from mother-in-law to daughter-in-law for generations among local Andong gentry families.
Andong Soju master distiller Cho Ok Hwa is the current holder of this secret traditional process.
She has systematically developed a process using the best techniques from the home-brewing methods learned inher own home and that of her husband.
