Korean – Chinese netizens compete with ginseng stewed chicken

After kimchi, rice cake, samgyetang (ginseng chicken stew) is the continuation of the origin controversy between Korean and Chinese netizens.
On March 30, on Baidu – China’s largest search engine, similar to Google – described the ginseng stewed chicken originating from Guangdong province (China) and then being introduced to Korea and become a in the dishes loved by the royal family members.

The above move made many Koreans angry. They think that the land of ginseng is the home of this chicken dish, Korea Times reporting. According to the Korea Rural Development Bureau, the people of this country have been cooking chicken with ginseng stew since at least the Joseon period. This dish is favored by wealthy Koreans and became popular with the popular class after the 60s. Chicken ginseng stew is the next dish in the Korean-Chinese internet copyright controversy. Photo: Getty. Sungshin Women’s University professor Seo Kyung-duk said he sent a complaint email to Baidu, asking for information to be modified about the dish. According to Professor Seo, China does not even use the HS (Harmonized System – the code to classify the goods according to the list of import and export goods) or the international name for the ginseng stewed chicken, while Korea uses the 1602.32 range. 1010. This is not the first time that netizens of the two countries have argued over copyrights of famous dishes. In early December 2020, the sheet Global Times China’s pickles reported that its sour food was ISO certified and said that ISO “is the international standard for kimchi manufacturing that China leads”. Kimchi, rice cakes used to be a controversial dish about copyright between the two countries. Photo: Getty. In China, this dish is called Pao cai, made from cabbage, mustard stalk, long beans, chili, carrot and ginger. According to the The Guardian The fact that the newspaper mentioned the word “kimchi” made Koreans think that China was trying to make kimchi its own. Last January, the controversy continued with the advertisement of Professor Seo Kyoung-duk posted on the page. New York Times. Accordingly, he gave many evidences and arguments to prove that kimchi originated in Korea to oppose China. By February, Korean-Chinese netizens continued to give evidence proving that the rice cake came from their country. Specifically, Chinese rice cake called niangao, is made from crushed rice and has toughness and toughness. In Korea, tteokbokki, literally translated as “fried rice cake” is a popular Korean street food made from small garaetteok. Garaetteok is a type of rice cake that is long, cylindrical, and usually much chewier than the Chinese version.