SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of kimchi hit an all-time high last year thanks to its growing popularity, data showed Sunday. Outbound shipments of the spicy Korean traditional side dish came to a record US$159.9 million in 2021, resulting in a trade surplus of $19.2 million in the sector, according to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The favorite Korean food among foreigners turned out to be Korean-style fried chicken. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Korean Food Promotion Institute conducted a survey of 8,500 individuals from New York, Paris and 15 major cities around the world to ask them about the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean Kimchi festival took place in California on Monday (local time). In celebration of California’s first Korean Kimchi Day, some 200 people including city officials, politicians, business leaders and diplomats gathered at the Korean consulate in Los Angeles to experience the Korean kimchi-making process. South Korea passed new [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The second kimchi-themed cook-off was held at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) at Copia, a so-called “food lover’s paradise” in California’s Napa Valley, a famous wine-producing region. Carlota Bradley won the first prize with her creative culinary art called Jonggkim Rice Stack, a dish made with kimchi and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of kimchi climbed nearly 14 percent in the first eight months of 2021 on growing overseas demand for healthier food amid the new coronavirus pandemic, data showed Tuesday. Outbound shipments of kimchi reached US$111.5 million in the January-August period, up 13.8 percent from a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — California’s legislature has passed a new resolution to celebrate kimchi, a popular Korean fermented side dish, to promote the consumption of healthier food, industry sources said Tuesday. Under the bill led by Californian Assemblyman Steven Choi, which was passed on the previous day, the U.S. state of California plans [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — In response to the mistranslation of kimchi as Chinese “pao cai,” the South Korean government has announced the official Chinese word for kimchi as “shinchi.” The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced that new guidelines for the translation of Korean will take effect on Thursday. In the new [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver and Daum, the top two portal sites in South Korea, listed kimchi defined as “pao cai,” a non-Korean dish from China’s Sichuan Province, in their Chinese dictionaries, a civic group here said Thursday. The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) reported that Naver’s Chinese dictionary defines kimchi as [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans consumed 1.86 million tons of kimchi in 2019, a survey showed Thursday, with around 42 percent of households here making the traditional side dish at home. Of the volume, the demand from households accounted for 1.06 million tons, while 800,000 tons were consumed at restaurants and schools, [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the U.S. minor league teams is wearing a new uniform designed with Korean characters. The Montgomery Biscuits, the Tampa Bay Rays’ Double-A affiliate, announced via their official website that the team would “play as the Montgomery Kimchi on July 16 in celebration of Korean Heritage Night,” revealing [...]