The purpose of this study is to provide useful information for establishing desirable table manner culture by investigating the perception, practice of traditional basic table manner. The subjects were consisted of 1,261 participants(618 males and 643 females) in Daegu and Kyungpook. The recognition, practice of traditional basic table manner were measured on the five-point Likert scale. The results were summarized as follows: The overall recognition score on ordinary table manner was 3.74 points, and of methods and kinds of dinner services was 2.99 points. The education score on table manner of parents for sons and daughters was 3.66 points, and the necessity score of table manner was 3.92 points. The scolding score of adults for table manner was 2.79 points, and cooking score of side dishes for adult was 3.25 points. In result of analyzing difference between perception and performance of traditional table manner, perception is much higher than performance. Respondents consider that the most perceptional and performant traditional table manner item is 'eating foods inside mouth by not seeing and rushing out'. Meanwhile, 'eating and taking some foods from a main dish' was the lowest perception and performance. The total recognition score on traditional table manner was 77.78 points, and the total practice score on traditional table manner was 71.72 points.

Of 1,244 junior high school students of boys and girls and their families in Tokyo and Seoul, we investigated the present situations of the participation in cooking and table manners. In both countries, the average age of parents was 40's, and the ratio of the kinds of fathers' job was similar including 75% of full-time salaried workers, while that of mothers' in Japan was 63%, in Korea 23%. The male participation in cooking in both countries was found in younger generations and that of fathers and boys in Korea was significantly fewer than in Japan, which is regarded as the influence of Confucianism and employment of housekeepers. The figure of frequency of supper taken together daily was 27% in Japan and 54% in Korea where they didn't begin eating until all families gathered or the elders began. In Japan the civilities before and after meals were so often customarily expressed and they had the regular order of seats. The figure of frequency of taking meals with TV watching was about 45% in Japan of breakfast and supper and more than 30% in Korea of supper. As for the participation in cooking and table manners, national characteristics were clearly found out. In both countries, the newly modernized and democratized style of dietary behaviors was being made, rather sooner in Japan, out of the specific East-Asian traditional dining culture.