SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign ambassadors serving in South Korea are posting a series of kimchi-making videos on social media. In celebration of the Lunar New Year holidays, the Korean Culture and Information Service (KCIS) presented kimchi kits to 18 foreign embassies in the country, with which anyone can easily make kimchi. Hungarian [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s kimchi exports to Germany doubled last year after an appearance in the German media, with word that kimchi is helpful in strengthening immunity against the coronavirus spreading rapidly by word of mouth. The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency’s German office in Frankfurt reported a 118.9 percent increase in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of kimchi reached a new all-time high in 2020 thanks to its popularity amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Monday. Overseas shipments of kimchi came to US$144.51 million last year, up 37.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from the Korea Customs Service [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Embassy in Washington said Wednesday it will soon release a documentary on kimchi, the most well-known traditional Korean dish that is also part of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. The first of the three-part documentary, “Kimchi Universe,” will be released next Friday, Lunar New Year’s Day, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Chinese ambassador, as well as a famous food blogger in China were shown on social media making Korean kimchi, rekindling the Korea-China debate over the origin of kimchi. Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Zhang Jun posted a photo of himself holding up kimchi on his Twitter account [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Global consumers picked kimchi as their most preferred Korean dish, a poll showed Thursday, amid the growing popularity of traditional Korean food, known as hansik, in line with the boom of the country’s pop culture around the world. Nearly 34 percent of the respondents said they preferred eating kimchi, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of kimchi reached an all-time high in the first 10 months of 2020, data showed Wednesday, on the back of growing global demand for healthier foodstuffs amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Outbound shipments of kimchi over the January-October period of last year came to US$119 million, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s exports of kimchi rose sharply in the first 11 months of the year thanks to its growing popularity, data showed Sunday. Overseas shipments of kimchi came to US$132 million in the January-November period, already surpassing last year’s total, according to the customs data. Kimchi is a traditional [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The World Institute of Kimchi announced Wednesday that the Kimjang Project, a website created to promote “kimjang,” the whole process of making kimchi, for the winter in Europe, has been listed on the UK Web Archive. The British Library’s UK Web Archive is composed of professional curators and archivists [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris learned how to make kimchi from a renowned chef Tuesday, calling the fermented cabbage dish “uniquely Korean, world-renowned food.” The kimchi-making event at the Habib House, the ambassador’s official residence in Seoul, came amid Chinese media’s claim that Beijing led the development [...]