The family van was loaded with precious cargo — 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.