Eatyourkimchi
Eatyourkimchi is a website on which the Canadian couple, Simon and Martina Stawski, the public, through both its video tips about life in South Korea. The YouTube channel, where the images appear, is the 18th most visited in South Korea and their videos are now more than 130 million views.
Gimchi is a traditional Korean dish that is made from white cabbage.
Video Tips for everyday life
Simon and Martina's videos are there to give the audience ( mainly from foreign countries ) to gain an insight into the otherwise did not get through guide and authorities. Eatyourkimchi allows " a local insight when it comes to Korean culture, you will not find in the average travel guide, " says Elysabeth Hahm from the Yonhap news agency. The videos are designed humorous and attract an audience, which prefers " watching, " than to read. The video blog contains some repeating themes, such as the Korean language, Korean food and Korean music. Videos show how a South Korean washing machine works, how to order food, table ringing in Korean restaurants, and how to settle bills. The series shows, for example, Preparation aids for bulgogi, Samgyeopsal, Galbi, and much more. The page also contains some weekly series, Kpop Music Mondays as ( eng. K- Pop Music Montage ) Wonderful Treasure Find - short WTF - ( eng. discovery of a wonderful treasure ), and Too Long; Did not read short TL, DR ( eng. Too long, I have not read).
Background
The Stawskis are originally from Canada and moved in 2008 to South Korea. When they arrived on 31 May 2008, there had been some worrying inconsistencies between North and South Korea, and the pair began at the airport with her first video to reassure parents that it was good to them. However, it soon grew into a blog of "all- about - Korea " channel. Eat Your Kimchi is interesting not only because of its own history. It is also part of larger trends in South Korea. Before 2002, there were no blogs in South Korea, but since the number of bloggers is increasing every year and the same is true for foreign bloggers in South Korea. In 2008, YouTube came to the South Korean market and changed the lives of South Korean citizens, as well as that of Stawskis. Even 2011 is the format of their video blogs yet special. "Hardly anyone makes videos specifically about Korea. " Says Martina Stawski.
Audience and reception
According to the newspaper Korean Herald, it has Eatyourkimchi made the list of 21 " most useful websites " and was chosen to Hiexpat.com for Best Blog About settlers blog in South Korea. The two bloggers have now occurred in some South Korean television shows, including Heart to Heart Quilt Your Korean Map, Star King and The Running Man. Sometimes they are recognized and photographed by people on the street. Martina Stawski reported that Eatyourkimchi is known worldwide, but that the audience focuses on Australia, Canada, South Korea and the United States. The videos of Eatyourkimchi be distributed online through iTunes spacious, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and YouTube. The channel of the two has so far reached more than 495,000 subscribers and the videos enjoy more than 130 million views. Your website, which also contains videos counts more than 750,000 monthly hits of over 100,000 users.