FatManSeoul

Not kimchi, apparently.  Or Korean food. According to the Wall Street Journal’s Korea Realtime Blog, the G20 leaders will be dining on steak (한우, of course! and fancy persimmon fed cattle, at that) as part of a three-course western-style meal.   They also won’t be serving caviar or fois gras for ethical concerns, and Fatman is [...]

Nanoomi.net is having a party! We want to give our readers a chance to meet some of our bloggers and hear about the new projects we’re rolling out. 나누미(Nanoomi.net)에서 블로거분들과 함께하는 파티를 개최합니다. The event itself will be casual, with light food (including Korean tacos!), drinks, music and short presentations by some of our bloggers. 이번 [...]

Kimchi is now an endangered species!  It’s a cabbage crisis! Well, not all kimchi.  Just one of the hundreds of distinguishable varieties out there.  But hey!  It’s the important one!  The most basic of all baechu kimchi is going the way of the dodo.

That’s the only explanation we can think of for this piece of reporting: Top seven gross Korean dishes selected by foreign staff at the Korea Herald All we can say is that intern reporter Ryu Jeong-hyun needs to learn what actually constitutes news.  Hint:  polling your foreign colleagues about what Korean foods wig them out [...]

So, did you miss us?  Fatman’s been terribly busy lately, but now we’re back at the grindstone!  In the meantime, there’s been lots of delicious news: Zen Kimchi in Harper’s Bazar The Japanese trademarked makgeolli Reknowned film critic Roger Ebert has a rice cooker cookbook out, despite being unable to eat Seoul’s tap water won’t [...]

For once, a competition Fatman can enjoy without being picked last in gym class! Sure, the Korean team may have been knocked out of the World Cup, but you can always enjoy a cup of makgeolli in consolation.  Or, take a more celebratory tone by turning your attention to the Makgeolli World Cup ~ this [...]

For all those of you who couldn’t make it to the event itself, the Korean subtitled version of Zen Kimchi founder Joe McPherson’s TEDxSeoul talk, “How should the Korean government promote Korean food” about ideas for successfully globalizing Korean food is now up. Enjoy, and congrats Joe!

Tipping the fat hat to Brian in Jeollanam-do, who has already put up excellent posts on the subject here and here, the JoongAng Daily reports that the Korean government has had to do a wee bit of backpedaling on the whole “drunken rice” thing, thanks to some Netizen tongue-lashing: The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry [...]

FatManSeoul has gotten right back into the swing of things by giving a short presentation on Korean food blogs, blogs about Korean food, and what this means for globalization and popularization of Korean food for TEDxSeoul‘s salon at General Doctor! Our action-packed 3 minutes (ok, 4 . . . you didn’t really think we could [...]

Kristie Lu Stout of CNN chowed down with First Lady Kim Yoon-Ok, who spilled the beans on all kinds of national secrets, like what makes Korean food taste good and what MB2 eats for breakfast. Embedded video from CNN Video