Topic: Korean Food and Cooking
AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-10 16:10:17
South Korea Wednesday opened a kimchi research centre to raise global demand for its iconic dish and for the country's cuisine in general. The agriculture ministry said the world kimchi laboratory, sited at the Korea Food Research Institute in Bundang south of Seoul, would undertake detailed research into lactic acids created by fermentation and operate a pilot plant to ...
Getty Images | 2009-11-12 00:34:58
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 09: South Korean women make 'kimchi', a traditional pungent vegetable dish, which is donated to the poor in preparation for winter on November 9, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. About 2,500 housewives made 50,000 ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-10-27 06:00:23
<div><p>Maryjoy Mimis vividly recalls her first encounter with kimchi when she arrived in South Korea from the Philippines in 2003 to marry a local man.</p><p>"It looked so strange and smelled strong, and I thought I wouldn't be able to eat it. It was simply not right ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-10-09 17:01:00
<div><p>The first ladies of Japan and South Korea engaged in some kimchi diplomacy Friday as their husbands held summit talks on improving relations.</p><p>On the sidelines of the meeting between President Lee Myung-Bak and Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Lee's wife Kim Yun-Ok invited Miyuki Hatoyama ...
