Guest guest Posted October 31, 2003 Report Share Posted October 31, 2003 I tthought this is interesting. Apparently the kimchi market is bigger in Japan, because the Koreans mostly make their own. The kimchi I buy is Korean, but the Japanese pickles are also considered kimchi, according to this. http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200310/kt2003102619194811860.htm Kimchi is an indigenous Korean food, eaten and loved by Koreans for millennia. But there are still many foreigners around the world who believe kimchi is Japanese because of the popularity of ``kimuchi,’’ a variation of the dish from Korea's eastern neighbor. Japan's move to ask the International Olympic Committee to designate kimuchi as an official food of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics provoked anger in South Korea, which felt Tokyo was trying to assimilate its traditional food. While the word kimuchi is no longer in use thanks to the global food standards body CODEX adopting ``kimchi’’ as the standard name for fermented, pickled Chinese cabbage in July 2001, Japanese-style kimchi still holds nearly 80 percent of the world's market Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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