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[bobinkorea]

Hi
Ive been in Korea for 3 months and I still haven't found anywhere that sells Gimchi. I've heard that it's delicious and would really like to eat it and have a taste of Korea. I am only here for a year and would love to try it before I leave; where can I find it?

[chest rockwell]

Kimchi

[bobinkorea]

sorry, thought was gimchi, now know Kim chi! cool dude, where to get it?

[chest rockwell]

Any little eaterie could serve your perverse needs. Failing that, hit up Carrefour or Lotte Mart for a barrel of the shit that you could roll around naked in until your hearts content.

[bobinkorea]

I have been eating lots of fermented cabbage and other vegetables whenever I go out to eat, but I am not sure if this is Gimchi/kimchi

[bobbyhanlon]

kimchi doesn't exist. it it just an elaborate hoax perpetuated by people on this board to make fun of newbies in korea.

[Poemer]

OP are you caucasian? If so you've probably had trouble finding kimchi because great pains are being taken to hide it from you at all costs lest it's incredible health benefits somehow combine with your euro-genetics to create some sort of super-pseudokorean-konglishman who will, in a few well calculated and effortless moves, seduce and procreate with the female population writ large as well as wrest dokdo forever from the slimy grasp of Japan, thus usurping King Sejong's place as the great and eternal hero-king as well as fathering an entire race of misceginated, albeit godlike, followers who will rule the penninsula and enslave true koreans.

Just enjoy those yellow pickled thingies instead, ok?

[Kimchieluver]

This is a joke right. Well it isn't funny.

[cuckoo for kimchi]

dude....you could swing a dead cat and you would hit some kimci....it's everywhere......in some shape or form

[Wrench]

[VanIslander]

"kimchi" old spelling

"gimchi" new spelling

actually, the change was made half a decade ago to account for the fact that the Korean sound is CLOSER to a 'g' than to a 'k'

but for some reason the old guard of expats is willing to change Kyongju to Gyeongju and Kwangju to Gwangju and kochu to gochu but are unwilling to change kimchi to gimchi

I lived on Geoje for three years (old spelling: Koje).

Spell it any way you want. Just don't make a hard 'k' sound because to sensitive ears that sounds absurd, like you're a newbie who doesn't know the Korean word.

And as for EATING gimchi, geez... go and eat in Korean restaurants. Not one place or two, but several, each with gimchi at the table.

If you've been here for months and haven't eaten any, you SERIOUSLY need to do more dining out at Korean restaurants.

[europe2seoul]

[vlcupper]

[ajgeddes]

[VanIslander]