The purpose of this study was to survey the various kinds of cooked beef products focusing on "chim" (a steamed beef recipes) through historical literatures written from 1945 to 1997 in Korea. " Chim" was recorded 96 times in the references and could be classified into 3 groups based on major ingredients suchas the cud pouch, liver , spine , tongue, fleshes, beef, rib and tail, an could be classified into 14 groups based on minor ingredients such as vegetables fried beef in egg batter. tomatoes, callion and rice cake. Among the seventeen cooked recipe of " chim", "kalbi chim(rib) " was recorded most frequently and "satae chim(shank)" was the next. Though "yang chim(the cud pouch), salkogi chim(fleshes), sokalbi chim(rib) and sokori chim (tail) " has been sued until present day, salkogi chim subdivided into satae chim, udun chim, nubianisam chim, sosim chim in the middle twenty centuries. Ribs was most popular ingredient among the major ingredients such as the cud pouch, liver, spine, tongue, tail, fleshes. Decorating ingredients such as sukgi mushroom, minarichodae, pyoko mushroom, gingkonut also come into use subingredients or decorating ingredient in the 1990.nto use subingredients or decorating ingredient in the 1990.