A Grand Collection of Korean Rice Cakes

The person who gives out the cake doesn't even think about it, and drinks the kimchi soup first." This is a line from the popular 2006 Korean drama "Palace," where Crown Prince Shin teases Chae-Kyung. It's also a well-known Korean idiom. The first time I heard this line in the TV drama, I was completely confused, but after being enlightened by an expert online, I finally understood. The general meaning of this phrase is that there is no intention to give you the cake, but you have already run over to drink the kimchi soup. It's used to describe situations where others don't even have the idea, but you act first, resulting in making a fuss over nothing. Koreans used to drink kimchi soup before eating rice cakes, so when people saw the kimchi soup, they knew that there would be rice cakes to eat. Here, the rice cake refers to Korean traditional rice cake.