This is a traditional meat dish eaten on special occasions like holidays and large gatherings, often fulfilling the role of favorite dish because of its sweet, tender, and succulent flavors. Most traditional Korean meat dishes like this one take considerable time and preparation (and deservedly so) but that doesn’t mean this dish can’t be made with shortcuts while retaining most, if not all, its original taste and texture. Instead of the time-consuming marination and soaking of the ribs to remove the blood, I just boiled them with a good amount of onion halves, green onions, garlic, and ginger for about 30 minutes. After rinsing, the short ribs were slowly simmered over low heat for at least an hour (the more the better) to get them “fall-off-the-bone tender” while soaking up the sauce ingredients of sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, and the unique ingredient daechu, dried dates or jujubes