Food & drink

kimchi

Kimchi goes back to Sino-Korean chimchae, 'soaked vegetables'; over centuries of Korean sound change the word wore down to gimchi. Zainichi Koreans made it a Japanese staple, Korean pop culture took it worldwide, and in 2021 Seoul even fixed a new Chinese name for it.

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