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jack_b57 · Joined: 02 Sep 2010

Interesting article on the Kimchee shortage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/world/asia/15kimchi.html

I picture a man in a trench coat in a back alley secretly selling black-market kimchee. "I gots your kimchee right here. Your baechu. Your gagduggi. This is the best stuff, right here."

Seoulman69 · Joined: 14 Dec 2009

NYC_Gal · Joined: 08 Dec 2009

Inferior western cabbage Laughing

brickabrack · Joined: 17 May 2010

'Brian, can you taste the difference in the kimchi, nowadays?'

me - 'No, Mi Sang. [Mod Edit]'

Koreans are not the only misinformed/full-of-themselves people on the planet. Many other nationalities never get past downtown in their little worlds. Who can blame 'em for having national pride?

PatrickBateman · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:29 pm Post subject:

Yeah, this part was great.

The president of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, has said that until the crisis eases he will eat only the cheap and inferior kind of cabbage � the round-headed variety commonly found in Europe and the United States.

Laughing

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

kiknkorea · Joined: 16 May 2008

schlotzy · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Location: South Korea

Lol This article made my day! I can't stop laughing.

PatrickGHBusan · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:54 am Post subject:

On the flip side, while the quotes in the article are damn funny, the situation is not that funny for your average Korean family.

The cost of cabbage has risen a lot due to a bad harvest this year and like it or not, Gimchee is a staple of the Korean diet, much like milk and bread are back here in Canada.

A wild fluctuation in the price of milk or bread here would generate a lot of protest and anger.

Still, funny quotes and cabbage rustling sends quite the amusing mental image!

flakfizer · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:47 pm Post subject:

Cabbage rustling? Heads are gonna roll.

bobbyhanlon · Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Location: 서울

http://www.economist.com/node/17204655?story_id=17204655

NYC_Gal · Joined: 08 Dec 2009

southernman · Joined: 15 Jan 2010 Location: On the mainland again

It's not just Kimchi. ..

There was a piece in the NZ papers that said that over the last decade Korea has had the highest price increase among all OECD countries in regards to Supermarket prices. Something over a 48% increase in prices.

The reason it was in the NZ papers was that NZ has the second highest increase over the last decade among OECD countries