Because of the Korean people's eating habits lead to.
Korea's kimchi is very famous, Koreans eat kimchi every day, all the time can not leave the kimchi. And there are many other delicacies made with kimchi, such as kimchi pancakes, stone pot bibimbap, nori rolls, kimchi soup, and so on.
Koreans like to eat kimchi mainly because of the influence of food culture, before there is no refrigerator and other storage of fresh vegetables, they like to pickle the vegetables. Koreans like to eat sweet kimchi with some rain or fruit in it.
There is also the Korean fresh vegetables to the winter time is very expensive, so in the harvest time to buy, and then pickled up and stored on. The source said that vegetables and fruits are expensive in Korea, but meat is less expensive.
And there are many types of kimchi in Korea, with fruit, fish and other greens added to one serving. It can also be used to pickle other vegetables, such as cabbage, cucumber and radish.
South Korea has been hit by rain and typhoons this year, leading to a decline in cabbage, which sells for an average of about 79 yuan. Many South Korean families have chosen to give up pickling kimchi, and a number of pickling factories in the country have had to stop production.
Some South Korean businessmen have increased the amount of kimchi imported from China, which is not only in price and quality, but also very high quality. Now in South Korea 80% of the kimchi is from a small town in Shandong, China, want to eat Korean kimchi partners can not have to import, you can eat at home.
The passion of Koreans for kimchi is like the feelings of northeasterners for sauerkraut and Sichuanese for chili peppers. It is a favorite inherited from generations of ancestors and a food culture raised from childhood.
Koreans eat with a lot of small butterflies filled with different kimchi, which will be served with soup, rice, grilled meat, fried fish and so on.
A region has a region's food like, a country has a country's culture, because it is the flavor left by the ancestors, so it will continue.