It looks like our favorite YouTube Korean cooking diva Maangchi has been getting some press lately, in both Korean and English.

Maangchi shares:

Dakshana Bascaramurty wrote about me in The Globe and Mail last week, which is Canada’s biggest newspaper. Ever since then I’ve been getting so many interview requests from newspaper reporters and TV and radio broadcasting companies.

All major Korean newspapers and internet news portals have been reporting on the Globe and Mail article for days. I’m surprised at the tremendously powerful effect of the Globe and Mail newspaper!

These are the articles that I found on the internet (hehe, sorry, you can’t read it because it is written in Korean, but at least you can see the photo of my face on the kimchi video):

• http://www.torontolife.com/ (in English!)
• http://news.hankooki.com/
• http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/
• http://www.asiatoday.co.kr/
• http://www.seoul.co.kr/
• http://www.koreatimes.net/

A little trivia about her I didn’t know. “Maangchi” was her name when she played online games, so she used that for her cooking videos.

Jeremy Kressman/Gadling

Jeremy Kressman from travel blog Gadling was in town recently.  Got to show him around Mapo a bit.  Sounds like he had a great time.  Read for yourself.

Pierre Gagnaire a Seoul (Korea Times)

The new edition of the Miele Guide will include a top five list for each country.  In case you’re curious, here are Korea’s top five restaurants:

1. Pierre Gagnaire a Seoul (Lotte Hotel)

2. Seasons (Millennium Hilton)

3. Akasaka (Grand Hyatt Seoul)

4. Yongsusan (Chungdam location)

5. Table 34 (Grand InterContinental Seoul)

I’ll admit that I haven’t been to any of these restaurants.  Trying to accumulate the pocket change to do so.  All these restaurants are in Seoul and, unlike the Miele Guide from last year, they don’t all reside in the same hotel.

There’s a fresh cool Korean food blog out there that just started in June called Seoul Food.  Even though it’s a couple of months old, it has a good buffet of posts to keep your lunchtime happy.

Seoul Food

Photo by Robyn Lee

Grace Kang at Serious Eats shows how even YOU can make kimbap.

[How to Make Kimbap]

Matt Lamers and Olga Min did a story on how international couples cope with dinner decisions.  Eun Jeong and I (not pictured) were interviewed for the piece.

Also check out Jean Oh’s piece on summer ‘boyang’ foods.

It also looks like “hansik” (Korean traditional cuisine) restaurants are dying out at the big hotels.  Let’s hope that the Korean menu at the W Walker Hill can buck that trend.

Cho Tae-kwon, known in these quarters as having owned the poster child for overly pretentious Korean restaurants, the Gaon, again harps that Korean food must be prissied up on white tablecloths to be acceptable outside Korea.  Personally, I think he’s just trying to sell his liquor and pottery.

The photo is from Ghost Tree.

Jen of the SeoulPodcast sent to fellow podcasters, “Stuck in the ’80s,” a care package of Korean snacks.  And the stuff Jen sent was–well, it’s Jen.

“I was going to send shrimp chips but then I saw buttered sweet potato squid chips.”

(Image from Roboppy’s Flickr Stream)

The latest episode of “Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations” is titled “Food Porn.”

It totally lives up to its title.  I think it’s one of the best Bourdain productions yet, and I’ve been following Bourdain since his first episode of “A Cook’s Tour” on through his Ferran Adria doc and “No Reservations.”

For Koreaphiles out there, he spends some ample time with Korean-American wunderchef David Chang, where they indulge in his many international creations plus his signature BoSsam 보쌈 (drinking OBs, mind you).  OMG!!!  Now I see why New Yorkers pay $200 for this honker!

There are a few other little nods to Korea later in the episode, particularly, Dalk Bal 닭

발 (Chicken Feet), Ddong Jip 똥집 (“Poo House”) and live octopus, known in these parts as San Nakji 산 낙지.

It also features many of my favorite chefs, including Eric Ripert and Martin “The God” Picard.

Yes, the episode makes fun of us food nerds, who coined the term “food porn” in the first place.  Yet it’s the best attempt I’ve seen so far of helping the rest of the world “get it.”

Update: Steve helped find a streaming Flash video of it.