The real meaning of patties

Simple patties sold in street stalls in local markets.

No one is exactly sure why, on rainy days, Koreans eat home-made patties, such as bindaetteok (made from mung beans) kimchijeon (from kimchi), guljeon (oysters), pajeon (green onion) and gamjajeon (potato). Many believe that people stay at home when it’s raining or look for a shelter on their way home, and, searching for something to do, they make or eat bindaetteok, et al.
These tasty and nutritional traditional Korean dishes can be made quickly with commonly available ingredients, and these warm and inexpensive patties happen to go well with Korean soju.
Delicious food and soju, of course, engenders a cozy atmosphere filled with talkative friends, just the right recipe for keeping the rain and cold wimds at bay.
The experience of enjoying such a casual activity on rainy days is so commonly shared by Koreans that in days gone by folk musicians wrote songs about the custom.