This book, published in 2013, is part of the K-Heritage series and covers Kimjang culture, which was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in the same year.

Kimchi is indisputably the favorite side dish in all Korea: it holds an indispensable place in a standard Korean meal, and Koreans would consider a meal without kimchi to be incomplete. In the 1980s, kimchi first began to appear in grocery stores in large cities in Japan, China, the United States, and France. Today, in the early 21st century, this spicy Korean relish can be found in almost every metropolitan city and in nearly every corner of the world reached by the Korean diaspora. Once regarded as a peculiar local dish, kimchi has developed into a global food.