All posts tagged "kimchi"

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    Twins’ Park Byung-ho gives thumbs up to teammate-made kimchi

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff No wonder Park Byung-ho’s been playing so well right off the bat, and feels right at home in America. Just look at the way his Minnesota Twins teammates are treating him,...

    • Posted March 17, 2016
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  • Korean American volunteers in Northern California bottled 500 jars of kimchi to distribute to local elderly Sunday.
    NorCal Koreans make free kimchi for local elderly

    A Northern California charity organization will hand out 500 jars of kimchi to local elderly this fall. Inside a Santa Clara kimchi factory Sunday, 35 volunteers spent hours making the Korean staple dish. The effort is in...

    • Posted November 11, 2015
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  • Kimchi makers form a heart shape at Seoul Plaza during the "Seoul Kimchi Festival" in 2014. (Courtesy of Seoul Metropolitan Government)
    Thousands to make 50 tons of kimchi at Seoul Plaza

    Some 6,000 people will fill the streets of Gwanghwamun, downtown Seoul, this weekend for a kimchi-making festival. The Seoul Kimchi Festival, in its second year, started last year to commemorate kimjang, the collective practice of making kimchi,...

    • Posted November 5, 2015
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  • (Photo courtesy of Korean Language and Culture Foundation)
    SF I Love Kimchi cooking demonstration brings out adoptee families

    The Korean Language and Culture Foundation near San Francisco held its fourth annual “I Love Kimchi” event inside a Sunnyvale church, for which it offers hands-on cooking lessons for how to make the iconic dish. This year’s...

    • Posted September 15, 2015
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    Korean researchers develop cancer preventing kimchi

    A team of Korean researchers from Busan University and Cha University have developed what they call cpKimchi — or kimchi that has cancer-preventative properties according to Korea Bizwire. The study was led by doctors Ham Gi-baeg and...

    • Posted April 2, 2015
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  • (Courtesy of Mary F. Calvert for the Washington Post)
    [WaPo] Md. First Lady Yumi Hogan serves her own kimchi at Lunar New Year celebration

      Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and his wife Yumi hosted more than 200 people from the Asian community Thursday night at the governor’s mansion to celebrate the Lunar New Year. It was not the...

    • Posted March 2, 2015
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  • A still released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Michael Keaton, left, as Riggan in a scene from the film, "Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance" directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. (AP Photo/Copyright Twentieth Century Fox, Atsushi Nishijima, File)
    ‘Birdman’ film’s kimchi line stirs debate in Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The dark comedy “Birdman,” which swept the Academy Awards, seems to have irked some Korean film buffs over a line involving the country’s traditional dish, kimchi, in the latest controversy over cultural abasement. Some...

    • Posted February 23, 2015
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