Chapter 146 Love kimchi? It’s just a food desert!

The Kimchi Kingdom cannot lose kimchi, just as the West cannot lose Jerusalem.

However, the price of kimchi, the raw material, is not cheap, and almost all of it has to be exported to Shandong Province!
Almost 90% of the raw materials come from Renzhao Town, a county in Shandong Province.

When cabbage is the cheapest, it can even cost as little as 70 or 80 cents per pound.

In winter, it is even cheaper.

Why do many families in the north stock up on cabbage in winter?

Because it's cheap!

Especially when life was not rich, cabbage was the cheapest source of vegetables!

But when it arrived in the country of kimchi, it suddenly turned into golden and silver vegetables!
At just a few dozen bucks a piece, it's like eating diamonds!

Even the prices of the ingredients for pickling kimchi soared at one point.

[Ah, cabbage is so cheap in China? Why is it so expensive in our country! ]

This is a serious discrimination!

[You think it's too expensive? If it weren't for China, you wouldn't be able to eat kimchi! ]

[That’s right! It’s good enough to have something to eat, but you still think it’s expensive? ]

"Professor, what is going on here?"

The professor sighed and began to tell the history.

Although the domestic production of kimchi is not large, it is more than enough to meet the daily needs of the people.

After all, a country is so small, not even as big as a province in China!
But after the Four Major Rivers Management Plan, large tracts of land originally used to grow cabbage were expropriated, and there were no longer enough cabbages.

In a program, a housewife from the country of Kimchi calculated the cost of Kimchi.

It costs more than 500 yuan to buy ten heads of Chinese cabbage, and 2,000 yuan for various ingredients. It costs nearly 3,000 yuan to make spicy cabbage once!
This is something that ordinary people in Korea simply cannot afford.

For a time, the kimchi crisis swept across the country, causing panic among people all over the country!
Many people even resort to stealing for kimchi!
Not to mention the countless kimchi factories and companies that have gone bankrupt.

Of the more than 700 kimchi processing factories in total, more than 200 were forced to shut down.

When ordinary people saw that cabbage was too expensive, they could not afford it, so they used cabbage instead. Although the effect was not as good, it was better than having nothing to eat.

Then, with the nationwide crazy rush, cabbages were sold for sixty yuan each!
In order to calm the unrest, the president was forced to buy cabbage from farmers at high prices and then sell it to the people at a 30% discount.

However, even if this is done, the price of cabbage remains high.

More and more people became dissatisfied and went to the Blue House to protest many times.

The president saw that this was not going to work. He knew he would have to step down if things continued like this!
The 30% import tariff was urgently cancelled, and the government was responsible for importing Chinese cabbage from China, and took the lead in encouraging the private sector to import from China as well.

As soon as Chinese cabbage entered the market, the price immediately dropped back to a dozen yuan per cabbage.

Although it is still expensive, it is affordable.

[So, we still have to thank China? ]

[Of course! Without our Chinese cabbage, your generation wouldn’t be able to eat kimchi! ]

[In the end, he still has to thank us! ] [Those who said they never buy Chinese products are slapped in the face, right? ]

[You must not only buy, but also eat the Chinese cabbage! ]

The professor's words instantly broke down the defenses of countless Koreans.

No one dares to say that they have never eaten spicy cabbage, right?

As long as they have eaten it, they have eaten something produced in China!

The professor's next words made them lose their defense.

In the year 2000, an international standard for the kimchi industry was officially born, led by China.

As soon as it was released, it immediately attracted the attention of relevant departments.

Even at a press conference, the representative of the Korean country specifically asked our spokesperson what China and the Korean country thought about the origin of the food kimchi.
The spokesperson just smiled and said, "Is that true? I'm not sure."

What Korea considers a big deal is, in fact, not something China cares about at all.

People across the country protested against kimchi and sent emails to Chinese Internet companies, strongly demanding that the statement that kimchi originated in China be deleted from the entry!

They are not joking, they really mean it.

The origin of the universe is the country of kimchi, so the origin of kimchi is naturally the country of kimchi!

Of course, this is not uncommon for Korea, which can even write its own history.

It can even be said to be a routine operation.

[Ah, bastard! The Chinese are too shameless! ]

[That's right, we all know where kimchi originated from. Why would the Chinese want to steal it? ]

[Haha, I can only say that the Thief Country has been bitten back! Haven't you stolen enough from China? ]

[Can what scholars do be called stealing? 】

[Apart from the facts, are you Chinese not at all wrong? 】

Among so many countries in the world, only the country of kimchi is particularly fond of spicy cabbage. There is only one reason for this, and that is poverty!

The national delicacy, spicy cabbage, is pickled into kimchi as a last resort in order to survive the cold winter.

[What does this have to do with being poor? This is called thrift and diligence! ]

[As far as I know, China also has the habit of pickling kimchi, which means they are also very poor! ]

[China does have this custom, but kimchi is served as a side dish! ]

[Unlike in your country, kimchi with rice is a lunch! ]

Netizens were instantly silent because many people actually did this.

Especially for those office workers, a meal of spicy cabbage with rice is a delicious delicacy for them.

(End of this chapter)