NA Now, she lays out a straw mat in a hot room and covers it with a blanket for three days to ferment.
This has a richer and sweeter taste than fermented soybean paste.
Caption Jip-jang – A traditional sauce made from fermented soybean powder, red pepper flakes, rice porridge, which are mixed together with salt-fermented vegetables and left to ferment.
NA The last day of kimchi-making.
These people have come in the rain to lend a helping hand.
Caption The sauce tastes the best the day it is mixed.
NA Kimchi-making is considered a UNESCO Cultural Heritage, but it is rare to see the younger generation performing this duty.
Caption We give this our kids in Seoul, and they say that it’s delicious, so we feel like we have to keep making the kimchi for them.
NA Kimchi is sent all over the country. To the daughter living in Seoul, to the sister-in-law in Gwang-ju, to the aunt living in Busan.
Caption Grab it, grab it, grab it!
NA It is now time to finalize the kimchi-making.
It is boiled pork.
When a piece of thick and fatty pork is wrapped in freshly made kimchi, all Koreans exactly know this taste.
Caption It tastes the best the day of. The day kimchi is made.
That day, the husband of the wife that makes the kimchi evaluates the taste.
If it doesn’t taste good that day, it will taste bad all year.
If it tastes good that day, it will taste good all year.
NA Kimchi-making for three days comes to end with the boiled pork.
Caption Of course it’s hard!
Making kimchi after farming all year is incredibly hard.
Caption Then why do you do it?
I wouldn’t be able to live without it.
If we can’t share this food, what is there to share?
Kimch-making is rewarding, and so is giving it out to people.
It is fun to give out kimchi I’ve made.
NA This meal is the result of a mother’s hard work and wisdom deriving from years of experience.
NA Such a meal is becoming rarer and rarer in the our busy city lives.
So what is that we should eat?
There are people searching for that answer.
It appears to be a yellowtail fish.
They are in season these days.