Chinese media reported on the debate about the origin of kimchi, "it is unnecessary to claim the'King of Kimchi'."
The Global Times, an English version of the Global Times published by the People's Daily, an agency of the Communist Party, said on the 14th that Korean netizens flock to the Twitter of Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, Jang Jun, claiming the sovereignty of kimchi.
Ambassador Jung raised his thumb over freshly marinated kimchi in a photo posted on Twitter on the 3rd.
Accordingly, it was pointed out that after the Chinese media started debating the origin of kimchi in November of last year, it was awkward that the Chinese ambassador made Korean food and posted it on Twitter.
However, the Global Times emphasized that Ambassador Zhang is from Liaoning Province in northeastern China, and that kimchi is common here.
The newspaper also stressed that Korea and China have had a relationship for thousands of years in culture and food, and that it is unnecessary to pick up the'Kimchi King'.
It is interpreted as an intent to dismiss the backlash that China claims kimchi is a food of its own origin and tries to steal Korean culture.
In Korea, there is even the term'Kimchi Process' that compares the recent movements of China to the distortion of the history of China's'Northeast Fair'.
In November of last year, the city news agency linked Pao Chai, a salted vegetable in Sichuan, China, which received standard certification from the International Organization for Standardization, with Korean kimchi, insisting that'China has become the standard for the international market'.