The story of an American woman who ate kimchi and lost 50 kg became a hot topic.
However, China, which used to respond without falling into kimchi-related news, is quiet this time.
African-American Yoon, a Cameroonian-American woman, made headlines for losing 50kg by eating her kimchi and other Korean food-based diet with the advice of her Korean grandmother, whom she met by chance 15 years ago.
As proof of this, the World Institute of Kimchi recently published a study showing that kimchi helps improve obesity and neuroinflammation caused by obesity by inducing the growth of useful microorganisms in the intestines.
In response, Seo Kyung-deok, a professor at Sungshin Women's University, pointed out that the Chinese media made claims such as 'kimchi is Chinese' and 'kimchi originated in China' when there are reports related to kimchi, but she is not responding to this issue. I did.
Regarding this Chinese attitude, she said that she feared that the efficacy of Korean kimchi would become more known to the world.
She added that the results of this research will be made into a multilingual video, such as English, and widely publicized to the world.
(Screen source: Afreeca Yoon's Instagram, Professor Seo Kyung-duk's Facebook)