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hellofaniceguy · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: On your computer screen!

Well..that's what I found out today!
Read the editoral in today's KH...Thursday's issue...letters to the editor section...the article was written by a foreigner. Interesting reading.
Truth or fiction...

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

To be honest, China has a much longer history than Korea has.. it doesn't surprise if a version of kimchi was started in China. The Korean version, however, is mostly likely made and modified according to the taste of the Korean people and I don't really think that you can say this particular type of kimchi is founded by the Chinese.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

HOLY SHIT!
That's like discovering hockey didn't come from Canada!
Twisted Evil

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

VanIslander · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:01 am Post subject:

ninjamonkey

wspark · Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul --> Melbourne

Hey, just about everything came from china.

But yeah, where do you draw the line? This is kinda like saying baseball or American Football didn't come from the U.S., the aforementioned ice hockey from Canada, karate not from okinawa, etc...

hellofaniceguy · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: On your computer screen!

One thing is for certain...we'll always agree to disagree!

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

koreans are chinese! so of course Kimchi came from china!
but remember never say that to koreans! unless you are looking for an arguement! Laughing

Skippy · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Daejeon

BS on the Koreans inventing the Hot and Spicy Version of Kimichi. The hot and spicy version is about 500 years old at the most. The orginal Kimichi was simple a salted pickled cabbage.

Interesting enough if you want to shock Korean tell them the history of hot peppers in Korea. The first hot peppers were introduced by the 16th century by the Portuguese or the Japanese (via Europe Traders) Then eventually it was grown here. Even then the modern red kimichi took a century or two to become popular.

Kimichi if you look at the history simple meant a preserved type of vegetable. It would be akin to saying the Native Americans invented Smoked Fish. Heck the Chinese could have started first in preserving Vegetables by salting or pickiling. It was the Koreans who made and developed the current Kimichi of Modern times.

heck the history of much of the food koreans eat is relatively new. If you go back 200 years most korean would have gone their whole lives never eating any of there dishes know a days. The common diet was a barley gruel and if lucky some fresh vegetables and if really lucky some meat.

Anyways enough ranting.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004