Korean Food, Korean Identity: The Impact of Globalization on Korean Agriculture - KSP

Korean Food, Korean Identity: The Impact of Globalization on Korean Agriculture - KSP

I am getting my syllabus together for my graduate course on globalization this spring and came across this fascinating article about the impact of globalization on the Korean diet and on Korean agriculture more broadly. It is very much worth reading, you can download the pdf at the bottom of the page.

One very interesting factoid--that kimchi is a product of globalization, invented in 1766, a good 150 years after the red pepper of the New World was first brought to Korea, via Japan, via Portuguese sailors.

The discussion of Korean agricultural policy may be a bit more specialized than a causal reader would care for, but the issues are even more important than they were when this was written a few years ago. The arrival of FTA and the looming tsunami of U.S. beef really focus the mind in this regard.

It is interesting to me in this light how often people in markets stress to me, in English, that these are Korean goods or food that I am buying.

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