Brian in Jeollanam-do has an interesting report from the Kimchi festival in Gwangu. According to festival Chairman Kim Sung-Hoon:
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. If you want to age gracefully and have beautiful skin, eat Korean kimchi,” said Kim, a former agriculture minister.
Well, I have gone on record and there is really no disputing that Koreans are the most attractive women in Asia. I will brook no debate on that point.
Still, it would seem if kimchi was the secret to beauty the more you eat and the longer you eat it, the better, right? So inquiring minds want to know how do you explain the phenomonon of ajummas?
From this…
To this…
So, I have to ask: How much kimchi is too much?
Picture 1 – pretty much exactly the right amount
Picture 2 – waaaaaay to much. /shudder
If you think a bucnh of pinks and greens are going to win anything you surly are wrong. It’s the liberals who want abortion and are very willing to pay for it both here and abroad. Interesting article on, of all places, MSNBC. France, the country that is considered the model of European job security and social saftey nets. Is on the verge of stagnating. And, drum-beat Van Jones resigned. Only 36 more cazrs to go.
John, appreciate the observations of life in South Korea. I agree that Korean women are very high on the list, but a funny thing happens to me. When I go to any Asian country and find myself walking down the street, it becomes clear to me right away that the particular country I’m in is definitely the one with the most alluring females.
One thing that I find that for me, makes the Korean ladies evermore so beautiful is their wonderful and often natural sophistication, BTW.
Now, regarding Kimchi. Who woulda thought that a technique, invented of necessity, way back during terrible times of hardship for preventing vegetables from going bad over the winter would morph into the broad panoply and category of food that Kimchi has become ? Also, another thing about the Korean culture and capability/inventiveness that really impressed me was when they invented a refrigerator that kept the garlicky smells of the Kimchi jars within it from escaping into the house. Cool invention, no pun intended. Now if they could invent a way to keep the smell of recently eaten Kimchi off the breath of those beauties (as I’m sure you’ve partaken by now), now, there they would have something.
And a note about your pics: The beauty in number one has benefited from the incredible growth and progress of the ROK over the past 40+ years……..and that progress has been largely on the backs of such beauties as the one in picture 2.
And for the record, for me, the one is picture 2 is just as beautiful in her own way.
Ain’t progress grand?
Hope you, BTW, enjoy your trip and be sure to give your folks a shout out and a hearty congrats from your blog fans and participants.
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And further BTW, I love Kimchi in nearly all it’s forms. One of my ongoing difficulties in life is finding a source for it, now on the west coast of FL (Tampa/Clearwater area). When I do, which is not often, I am forced to reluctantly pay the rapidly escalating and now nearly exorbitant prices I have to pay if I want to take it home.