US Google, saying “China is the aid of kimchi”, only shows’preview’ to Korea

Amid the growing debate on the origin of kimchi online between Korea and China over kimchi, a traditional Korean food, Google, the world’s largest search site, introduced the origin of kimchi to English speakers such as the United States as’China’. It was confirmed on the 5th. The search results were displayed differently according to the user’s search engine language setting.

On this day, if you search for’the origin of kimchi’ in the US version (English) Google search, the Chinese flag and map are displayed along with the result of “China. On the other hand, if you search for the same search word in the Korean version of Google, the country name is not displayed and only a web page preview is displayed.

Some netizens pointed out, “If you search for’the origin of kimchi’ in most languages ​​excluding Korean and Japanese in Google search, it will be introduced as China.”

Vank, a civic group, also pointed out that expressing the results differently according to the search language is a glimpse into Google’s dual behavior. VANK sent a letter of protest to Google, and plans to submit a petition to the world’s largest petition site’Change’ (www.change.org).

Park Ki-tae, head of Vank, said, “Google’s behavior is evidence that the distortion of kimchi is spreading to the world, not just China’s blind nationalism and Chinese nationalism to make Korean kimchi one of Chinese culture.”

Reporter Go Seok-hyun [email protected]