Chinese YouTuber Ritsuchi explained as’Chinese food’ while making cabbage kimchi▶ Click here for a larger view
A Chinese YouTuber with over 14 million subscribers uploaded a video showing kimchi and posted a hashtag called “Chinese Food”, causing controversy.
Li Ziqi, a famous Chinese YouTuber who introduces traditional Chinese culture and daily life in rural areas, uploaded a 19 minute and 32 second video titled’Life Series: The Life of Nothing’ on the 9th.
In the video, Ritsuchi’s own harvested and trimmed cabbages are soaked in salt and pickled, and the cabbages are covered with red seasoning made with red pepper powder, and kimchi is put in a boiling cauldron to make a broth dish.
Ritsuchi introduced the foods in the video as if they were traditional Chinese food by adding hashtags as `Traditional Chinese Cuisine` (#ChineseCuisine) and `Chinese Food` (#ChineseFood) in the description column.
The video recorded 2.13 million views and about 140,000 “Likes” within a day of uploading.
Ritsuchi making soup with kimchi▶ Click here for a larger view
Netizens who watched the video responded, saying, “Kimchi is a traditional Korean food,” and “I’ve seen it while subscribing for a while, but I’m really angry.”
This is not the first time that the Chinese media has caused controversy over Korean food.
China’s official media report said that Pao Chai, a salted vegetable food from Sichuan, was approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in November last year, and that Korea, the host country of kimchi, was humiliated.
However, Pao Chai is a food that is fermented directly after salted vegetables or boiled, and is more like pickles than kimchi.
The Korean government also refuted false reports, saying that the Kimchi food standard was set as an international standard by the UN International Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) International Food Standards Committee in 2001.
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