Dunno if this has been posted, but Psy is doing ads for Samsung kimchi refrigerators.
http://www.allkpop.com/2012/09/psy-...ngs-new-model-of-kimchi-refrigerator-revealed
Today I learned that there was such a thing as a kimchi refrigerator.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHDacG_ESf8
Yup. When you make kimchi, it takes a lot of effort. It's about a 2-day ordeal from brineing the cabbages, making the 'suk' (fillings), fine chopping tons of ingredients, then you LITERALLY hand-by-hand put the fillings in EACH flaps of the cabbage. Now 1 cabbage has about 20-30 flaps? So it's very time consuming and labor intensive.
This is why they make kimchi in a HUGE batch and eat it year-round. Ideally people make kimchi 2-3x a year. Each batch is about a bath-tub size.
Now in the old days, people put the kimchi in huge clay pots then buried them in the ground over winter, kept cold to slow their pickling/fermentation process so they can eat it year round.
But if you live in densely populated cities like Seoul or Busan (or most of Korea actually), you don't have a yard. So they have kimchi refrigerators that can store all that kimchi. It's just a simple, top-loading fridge.
Of course, unless you have a family, it's better for youngsters and newly weds to just buy kimchi from supermarket.
The more you know.