World Kimchi Institute: "The history of napa cabbage kimchi is 300 years older"

Around 1450 during the reign of King Sejong, a recipe for napa cabbage kimchi was found to be recorded in a cookbook, suggesting that the history of Korean napa cabbage kimchi may be pushed back by about 300 years compared to existing theories. The World Kimchi Research Institute (Director Jang Hae-chun) announced on the 12th new research results that the origin of napa cabbage kimchi dates back to the mid-15th century, about 300 years earlier than the existing academic perception. This is a new revelation that corrects the distorted history of napa cabbage kimchi due to citation errors in Chinese literature during the Joseon Dynasty. Until now, the academic community has recognized the origin of napa cabbage kimchi as the pickling method using "chong (菘, napa cabbage)" recorded in the 1766 "Supplemented Sillim Gyeongje" (增補山林經濟). The "Supplemented Sillim Gyeongje" is a work compiled by the late Joseon Dynasty scholar Hong Man-seon, which mainly consists of the contents of "Sillim ...