"You know why there are so many beautiful women in Korea and Korean women have such smooth skin? It's because they have been grown on kimchi," claims Kim Sung-Hoon, who chairs an upcoming Gwangju Kimchi Festival.
"If you want to age gracefully and have beautiful skin, eat Korean kimchi," said Kim, a former agriculture minister.
It's hard to read this without picturing a red-faced coworker at a school dinner, leaning over the table with a glass of soju in his hand, asking you in broken English which female teacher you want to have sex with.
"I would like to say to foreigners: eat Korean kimchi a lot," said Professor Song Yeong-Ok of the Kimchi Research Institute at Busan National University.
Lactic acid bacteria and plant chemicals may help retard skin ageing and reduce cholesterol levels, she said.
As I reminded readers the other day, Gwangju is holding a Kimchi Festival from October 23rd through November 1st, though there is talk of cancelling it because of swine flu. Ironic, considering kimchi is considered a folk remedy to it and many other diseases. Gwangju is also the self-proclaimed Hub and Mecca of Kimchi Research, and thanks to this article I no longer feel ashamed to tell you that if you come to Gwangju, you should head downtown and watch all the hot women clip-clop around in miniskirts and 1980s fashion. The bus terminal, too, is a good spot for that. In five minutes you'll find more hot women than a local beauty pageant, enough to fill at least two squads of back-up dancers for a trot concert, in fact. It's no longer sexist to ogle Korean women; rather I think it's now a matter of civil, indeed national, pride.
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Do you think he actualy believes this or is he just kimcheerleading? Trying to make Korea (things Korean)seem beter than they really are?
"You know why there are so many beautiful women in Korea and Korean women have such smooth skin? It's because they have been grown on kimchi," claims Kim Sung-Hoon, who chairs an upcoming Gwangju Kimchi Festival.
"If you want to age gracefully and have beautiful skin, eat Korean kimchi," said Kim, a former agriculture minister.
Do Korean women age gracefully?
Somewhere out there is a great book about food nationalism, just waiting to be written.
There's that PhD title I was after...
However, I don't think it need be so complex. I reckon there's three years of research and a doctoral thesis just in one simple topic: What Kimchi Did.
I think I threw up in my mouth a little.
People love spicy women. That's a fact.
Believe it or not, but some other women in Asia believe it to be true also. Korean women do have a reputation (deserved or undeserved doesn't really matter, I think it's the Korean dramas that drive it) in Asia as having nice skin and slim legs.
I remember seeing this ad from a Japanese kimuchi manufacturer saying something to the effect of, "Why do Korean women have slim legs and soft complexion? It's because of the vitamins and antioxidants found in kimuchi!"
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