{"id":24049,"date":"2020-10-22T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/22\/crisis-fermenting-as-cabbage-shortage-hits-south-koreas-kimchi-culture"},"modified":"2020-10-22T09:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:26:19","slug":"crisis-fermenting-as-cabbage-shortage-hits-south-koreas-kimchi-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24049","title":{"rendered":"Crisis fermenting as cabbage shortage hits South Korea&#8217;s kimchi culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rainy weather means households are struggling to find affordable ingredients for spicy pickle<\/p>\n<p>South Koreans are facing a shortage of a beloved dietary staple after a summer of extreme weather destroyed crops of cabbages \u2013 the main ingredient of kimchi.<\/p>\n<p>In what is being described a full-blown crisis, fields of Napa, or Chinese cabbages were wiped out in August and September, when the Korean peninsula was struck by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/07\/typhoon-haishen-millions-evacuated-as-japan-pm-calls-for-utmost-caution\">typhoons, floods and landslides<\/a>, sparking a sudden spike in the vegetable\u2019s price.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/22\/crisis-fermenting-as-cabbage-shortage-hits-south-koreas-kimchi-culture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainy weather means households are struggling to find affordable ingredients for spicy pickleSouth Koreans are facing a shortage of a beloved dietary staple after a summer of extreme weather destroyed crops of cabbages \u2013 the main ingredient of kimchi.I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,311,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-food","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24050,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24049\/revisions\/24050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}