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SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands donned aprons and hair nets Thursday outside Seoul’s City Hall in a bid to make the world’s biggest batch of kimchi, the spicy pickled cabbage that is Korea’s best-known dish.
Kimchi traditionally is prepared in the fall during an annual rite called the kimjang. It is then packed into giant pickling jars and buried in the ground to ferment. On Thursday, about 2,200 volunteers — South Koreans and foreigners — made 143 tons of kimchi from 58,000 heads of cabbage, said Kim Sung-tae, a Seoul government official.
The yogurt drink maker Korea Yakult Co. has held the annual event since 2001. The volunteers will deliver the kimchi to 13,000 needy households in Seoul, Kim said. The Associated Press
