9.Kimchi
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In most Korean restaurants, kimchi is served as a free side dish. The problem is that most restaurants use Chinese food to cut costs, but some people don't even bother to eat kimchi from China due to negative perception of Chinese food. If there is a place where only Korean red pepper powder is made in China, it would be a nobleman, and it is really hard to see kimchi that uses only Korean ingredients.
Of course, not all Chinese kimchi are of low quality. The problem is that while restaurants clearly know the reason why they use Chinese kimchi is to cut costs, they can't trust the kimchi they brought at a cheap price.
After the above steps, the costs of disposing of foreign currency and food waste, which are used for imported Chinese kimchi, are considerable. Environmental destruction is an additional factor. The problem is even more serious as the ratio of eating out and delivering food is gradually increasing due to a number of factors including an increase in single-person households.
A more serious problem is that even though kimchi for old-fashioned purposes is thrown away, Chinese kimchi, which is used in kimchi stew or kimchi fried rice, has no other way but to trust the conscience of the restaurant.
Fortunately, in early 2020, Samsung Electronics, small and medium-sized businesses, and kimchi producers significantly lowered production costs due to the smartization of kimchi factories. Analysts say that it has gained an edge over Chinese kimchi in quality and even price competitiveness. If this trend continues, it will not be long before regular restaurants provide basic domestic kimchi services