100% agreed, I'm not Korean myself but in the last decade or so my closest friends have been Korean, and they love more than anything to teach me more about Korean food and culture. The dizzying myriad banchans and kimchis amazed me at first, but seeing how it's more about the process than the dish made it click much better in my head, haha.

I could probably eat ssambap and gukbap daily for the rest of my life and die happy, lol