A nightlife and culture website based in Seoul, South Korea recently reached out to a handful of barbecue joints in the United States for a very special project.

The aim of Digitalsoju TV and hosts Asian Boss was to show North Korean exiles who had left the country for a better life in South Korea the ins and outs of American barbecue.

“We make videos about life in Seoul including the growing international food scene, which still hasn't hit puberty,” the company says on its YouTube site. “Koreans are finally starting to appreciate authentic foods from other countries and the landscape of the food scene is really changing.”

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Seeing how Koreans react to new things they've never tried before is part of the fun.

“We want to set the bar higher for people here so they no longer settle for the bastardized versions,” they add.

Other videos produced by Digitalsoju included real Mexican food, various American pizzas, and root beer floats. In early January they put out a video of South Koreans trying American barbecue for the first time and it hit 1 million views in just five days.

Included on the menu for the barbecue novices was sauce from Texas’ own Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Q and other barbecue places from around the U.S.

A place called Sweet Oak in South Korea was enlisted to cook for the North Koreans. Its pitmaster is South Korean restaurateur and Guam native Gus Flores, a man who learned from barbecue greats from around the world. Flores also included sides like cole slaw, fries, beans, and corn pudding.

Sauce from Alabama’s LawLers Barbecue, 12 Bones in North Carolina, and Gates Bar-B-Q in Kansas City were all on the menu. According to the producers they were not able to secure any sauces from Memphis barbecue joints and Salt Lick and Franklin Barbecue from here in Texas declined to help.

The producers stress that had it not been for the help from Rudy's brass, the Lone State Star would have not been represented in the video.

One of the owners of 12 Bones, Angela King, is a Korean-American whose father escaped from North Korea when he was 11 years old. Her family made the trip to Seoul to participate in the project.

You can seen the video in full below:

The video proves the craving for the taste of smoked meat is rather universal. It's fun to see the reactions to basic Texas things from people who have never had the pleasure of traditional brisket, beef ribs, and sausage.

North Korea is a place where only the privileged can regularly eat meat, and forks were seen as crude American tools. One exile said meat choices in North Korea range from dog, rabbit, chicken, and pork.

“Eating beef is enough to get you executed,” one man said, in part because of the amount of work that one of the animals can do.

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A few of the exiles asked why the bottle of Rudy’s sauce was so much bigger than the rest of those gathered. That’s when they learned that everything, including our barbecue sauce bottles, is bigger in Texas.

One of the North Koreans said she preferred brisket sans sauce, which made her an honorary Texan.

Rudy’s was founded just north of San Antonio at first as a gas station, garage, and grocery store. In 1989 the owners began selling barbecue and the concept quickly caught on. There are now locations all across Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Colorado.

The video isn’t just a celebration of American barbecue, but also of freedom, with the North Koreans explaining in their own words how much food means to those in countries where meat is scarce.