Goesan, South Korea ¨C The family van was loaded with precious cargo ¡ª 11 brown plastic boxes filled with 150 pounds of kimchi that Ha Si-nae, her husband and three daughters had made with their own hands.
¡°We are all set until this time next year!¡± said Ha, 40, looking contentedly at the? neat stack of ?boxes. ¡°Nothing makes a Korean family feel secure like a good stock of kimchi does.¡±
In Korea, where people like to say they ¡°can¡¯t live without kimchi,¡± November is kimchi-making season, or kimjang. And like the Ha family, many Koreans are trying to keep the centuries-old tradition alive.
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