Posted on 10/23/2005 6:58:48 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
I know moog. - my point was that the stuff is so foul that I can't imagine wanting to import that crap. 8^)
One time I was at some shopping place and found an actual kimchi museum. Talk about weird! When I got home from Korea, I bought some kimchi. My family wasn't too fond of the smell or the taste either.
When I flip channels past the international channels during the Korean news time slots, it's been kimchi every day for at least two weeks (both KBS and MBC Korean television stations, but seemingly more on KBS). Most recently, it appears to be about Kimchi in Japan, with stores posting signs in Japanese or removing stocks of Chinese Kimchi, and lab testing of Kimchi.
Compared to Taiwanese news, which will devote the entire time slot to only one topic whenever there's something scandalous, tittilating, or scary, the Korean news seems very restrained by devoting only ten minutes or so to Kimchi news. I don't know if that's their style or if they are bowing to the Chinese and restraining themselves.
Well. Thanks for posting this article. I've actually been eating kimchi for a couple of months now, and I'll pay more attention to the source. I've been getting it due to the fact that we don't get enough fermented foods in our diets in modern times, but I don't think we need parasite eggs.
Most of the reporting in this case is done in Internet. As you said, KBS or MBC tends to toe the government line and restrain their reporting on this subject.
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