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ZenKimchi in the Media
Articles, TV shows, and radio shows that we have made or have been featured in
ZenKimchi has been featured in and has consulted for media such as The New York Times, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Lonely Planet: Korea, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar Korea, and the Peter Greenberg Worldwide radio show. We have also written for or Plate Magazine, Yonhap News Agency, 10 Magazine, SEOUL Magazine, The Korea Herald, Newsweek Korea, The JoongAng Daily, The Korea Times, Walkerhill Magazine, and Korea.kr. We were voted into the Top Ten Best Blogs of 2011 by FriendsEat and one of the top ten best Korea blogs in 10 Magazine.
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Joe on KBS World
Seoul Scene with Matt Kelley was gracious enough to ask me on as a guest to talk about Seollal and about the Food Journal. Click on the link below to go to the page and then click on the tiny orange TV icon to watch the streaming video. In fact, you can invent your own drinking game on how many times I clear my throat and push up my glasses. Actually, I knew there were video cameras in the room, but there was no monitor, so I was in “radio mode” and oblivious to the idea that I should look more composed on camera and get my...
read moreLatest in the Korea Herald: “2009 a year of food hits, misses”
I wrote a piece reviewing the year in Korean food for the Herald. Here’s the intro: This was the year that Korean food was going to make its debutante debut. Restaurant industry seers Baum & Whiteman predicted Korean food would hit it big in 2009. It did make some headway, but not in the way the public and private Korean food promoters on the peninsula predicted. Despite wasting money in changing the names of traditional snack foods, full-page ads in American newspapers and promoting the expensive, pretentious side of Korean food...
read moreZK in the JoongAng Daily with Christmas Tips
Check out today’s JoongAng Daily for a piece I wrote about surviving Christmas in Korea as an expat–especially for those of you who don’t want to shell out $100 for steam table turkey. Beat the buffet rush and cook at home with friends (JoongAng...
read moreZenKimchi on Peter Greenberg Worldwide
I will be on the Peter Greenberg Worldwide radio show this weekend. It’s syndicated around the U.S., usually between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. EST. You can find a radio station playing it in your area here. If you miss it or don’t have access to it, it’ll show up in the archives later. Peter Greenberg is Travel Editor for CBS News and is a regular on The Early Show. UPDATE: Show is...
read more10 Magazine: Christmas and Beers
The new issue of 10 Magazine is out. It covers where to find good beer in Korea and has tons of information on Christmas events so that you have no excuse to complain about doing nothing this year. My articles covered the following restaurants: Dongari – An excellent Japanese izakaya next to Seoul City Hall Baru – Buddhist cuisine that doesn’t make omnivores pine for the missing meat Daemyeong Ilshik – A sushi bar my friend Young introduced me to. His recommendations are always good. Praha Cafe – The new...
read moreJoe in Newsweek Korea PLUS L.A. BBQ Festival
An essay I wrote on the Korean government’s ham-handedness in promoting Korean cuisine overseas has been published in this week’s Newsweek Korea. It’s mostly about how the government and some private entities aren’t even bothering to ask foreigners what they like. They’re forcing what they themselves like onto the market, like expensive royal court cuisine and ddeokbokki/”topoki” (see “Agriculture Ministry is Officially NUTS“). With impeccable timing to prove my point, reader Edward...
read moreZenKimchi Dining in the Korea Herald
Check out the article in the Korea Herald on ZenKimchi Dining. It’s in the Wednesday, September 2nd edition. ZenKimchi Dining: Dinner decisions with less stress
read moreMore Press–This Time from Groove Magazine
Well, I recently talked about the new writing gig at 10 Magazine and the feature on food bloggers in The Korea Times. Yesterday, I was showing the Lonely Planet writer around Anyang Art Park when he said, “I saw that you’re on the cover of Groove.” He pulled the magazine from his backpack and showed it to me. Whaa…? I had remembered doing the interview, but I didn’t know it would be on the cover. The article is more about the SeoulPodcast than food. It’s a good one. Incoming search terms:chamsutgama...
read moreZenKimchi in The Korea Times
Writer Ines Min has written a piece on Korea’s food blogging community. All your faves are in there. Check it out.
read moreLatest SEOUL Article
My latest and final food column for SEOUL Magazine gives tips on what to eat if you have a limited time in town. Get yourself a copy. Incoming search terms:seoul magazine
read moreDealing with Dinner for International Couples
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...
read moreSEOUL Magazine Article on Andrew Zimmern
The Seoul Magazine article I wrote about Bizarre Foods is now online. Go to page 49. (SEOUL Magazine, May 2009) Incoming search terms:andrew zimmer in seoul korea
read moreZenKimchi and Bloggers on KBS Monday
“30 분 다큐” (30-minute Docu) featured Eun Jeong and me, along with bloggers Fatman Seoul, Seoul Eats, Roboseyo, and Kiss My Kimchi, about the promotion of Korean food abroad. Catch it Monday evening at 8:30 on...
read moreZenKimchi on Arirang TV
Eun Jeong’s first comment: “You need tone. You look like a woman.” Incoming search terms:misutgaru smoothie
read more“Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern” in Korea
I asked if you could guess which celebrity chef was in Korea. One of you guessed correctly. For a couple of weeks, Eun Jeong, a few valuable friends and I have been helping the production of “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern” set up locations, food suggestions, research and on-air guides for their shoot in Korea. Eun Jeong herself, along with our friends Eun-hak and Daniel (Seoul Eats) got to be on the show eating “bizarre foods” (what we usually call “lunch”). We can’t give away what’s...
read moreKorean Food Bloggers in the New York Times
Matt Gross, the Frugal Traveler, published an article about food in Seoul in The New York Times, along with some video. Daniel Gray of Seoul Eats is prominently featured. WOO HOO! Oh, and ZenKimchi gets a blurb, too. [Choice Tables - The Weird, Wild and, Ultimately,...
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ZenKimchi Featured in Korea Agra Food
I just received my copy of the interview I had last month with Korea Agra Food, which is a trade journal that promotes Korean food. Here are some hi res photos I took of the article. I have larger versions of these photos in my Flickr account, if it’s too hard to read...
read moreKH Article: Harnessing Love Through Spaghetti
Here is my latest Korea Herald article, published on Valentine’s Day. Harnessing Love Through Spaghetti You still have a little time left. Don’t fret over some overwrapped, overpriced gift basket. In my world, the best expression of your love for someone is food. You can impress without being some master chef. Let me tell you a story: My first year in Korea, I had difficulty in the dating scene. I had dates, but they never developed into relationships. One time, I planned a date with a young woman. She asked if I could cook...
read moreNew KH Article: Mardi Gras in Korea
From one of my articles in The Korea Herald Mardi Gras in Korea? “Laissez les bons temps rouler!” Mardi Gras is coming February 5th this year. It is one of the hardest times of the year for those of us from the northern Gulf coast (Gulf of Mexico, that is). You are more likely to find people who can share Christmas with you than people who know about or understand Mardi Gras. Also known worldwide as Carnival, American Mardi Gras began in 1703 in Mobile, Alabama, and spread throughout the French territories of Biloxi and New...
read moreZenKimchi Mentioned in The New York Times
Just a note that The New York Times just put out a piece on Korean fried chicken in New York. I’m in there.
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