Milmyeon is a Korean dish of long and thin noodles similar to Naengmyun, representing the dises of Busan

Busan

Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...

. The noodle is basically mixing flour powder with starches of sweet potato

Sweet potato

The sweet potato is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the family Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots are an important root vegetable. The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens. Of the approximately 50 genera and more than 1,000 species of...

 and potato

Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family . The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species...

 with meat broth, which bring it and water, several kinds of vegetables to a simmer in saucepan. The mixture of flour is actually not formally fixed at certain ingredients, leading to several transformation like using Artemisia princeps

Artemisia princeps

Artemisia princeps, or Japanese mugwort, is a perennial, very vigorous plant that grows to 1.2 meters and is known as yomogi in Japan. This species spreads rapidly by means of underground stolons and can become invasive. It bears small, buff colored flowers from July to November which are...

 for ssuk milmyeon(쑥 밀면) Milmyeon also has its variety of mul milmyeon and bibim milmyeon applicable for naengmyun. The difference between the two is chiefly spicy sauce for bibim milmyeon.

Origin

The origin of milmyeon is not clearly found but mainly 3 viewpoints have been told.

• The first refers to the refugees in hunger during Korean war
  Korean War
  The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...
  
  . In Busan, huge number of people gathered into, away from the bombing catastrophe. Among them are people from northern regions to make noodles by using flour which was conveyed for US army instead of buckwheat
  Buckwheat
  Buckwheat refers to a variety of plants in the dicot family Polygonaceae: the Eurasian genus Fagopyrum, the North American genus Eriogonum, and the Northern Hemisphere genus Fallopia. Either of the latter two may be referred to as "wild buckwheat"...
  
  , which was out of supplies at that moment and also chief ingredients of naengmyun.

• The second refers to a restaurant opened in Busan by two from Hamheung in North Korea. For the dishes, they have to find out ingredients in easier supplies with more popularity for residents in Busan.