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Get your daily rundown of Philly happenings in less than 10 minutesFREE MORNING NEWSLETTERSkip to content❤️ Love Philly? ❤️Us too — let’s be friends.Catch the Billy Penn newsletter in your inbox 6 days a week for need-to-know news and connections to everything Philadelphia.As members of Philly’s Korean community work to get National Kimchi Day officially recognized in Pennsylvania, they’re kicking things off with a party.On Saturday, the Kimchi Festival returns for its second year at Love Park. Organized by the Korean Cultural Foundation, the daylong event brings workshops, cooking demonstrations, folk games, and live performances celebrating Korean cuisine and heritage.&nbsp;Last year’s inaugural fest attracted over 1,500 attendees. “This year, we’re hoping to get twice as many,” planning committee member Gail Allen told Billy Penn.A traditional drum performance and dance will start the festivities. There will be an open kimchi-making demonstration, followed by DIY workshops with chefs — many of whom work in local Korean restaurants, per Allen, and are volunteering their time. They’ll be starting a day in advance to cut, salt, and brine the cabbage for the celebration’s namesake dish.Along with kimchi, there will be other traditional Korean foods, like kimbap and hotteok.Seaweed-wrapped slices of rice and vegetables, fish, or meat, kimbap differ from sushi partly due to the “nutty flavor” that comes from sesame oil, Allen explained. “It’s a good lunchbox food,” she said.Hotteok is on the sweeter side, a popular street food compared by Allen to “mini-pancakes” with a filling of brown sugar, honey, peanuts, and cinnamon. “They’re so good,” she raved.Along with food tables, cooking demonstrations, and free tastings, the festival will have arts and crafts options and traditional Korean folk games like yut nori, where players determine how many spaces they move on a gameboard by throwing sticks instead of dice. There’ll also be jeggichagi — similar to what we call hacky sack, per Allen — and ddakji, where players try to flip their opponents’ folded paper square, as seen in the popular Korean show Squid Games. “I have to cut more paper for that,” Allen remembered.A K-pop dance performance is also part of the event lineup, as is a taekwondo demonstration, and a display of hanbok, traditional Korean clothing.Founded in 2012, the Korean Cultural Foundation exists primarily as a “healing project,” said Allen, 70, to address the cultural gap between first-generation immigrant parents and their children. At least 42,000 people of Korean heritage live in the Philly region, putting it among the top 10 U.S. metro areas in population.💌 Love Philly? Sign up for the free Billy Penn daily newsletter and stay in the knowThe idea for the Kimchi Festival came after the cultural foundation noticed similar events popping up in other states — “We wanted to be a part of that,” Allen said — and this year serves as launch point for their campaign to have Nov. 22 declared as Kimchi Day in Pennsylvania.&nbsp;&nbsp;The date, she explained, is a reference to the 11 main ingredients that go into traditional kimchi, and the 22 health benefits associated with them. It’s been recognized in California since 2021.Allen said the organization already has appointments scheduled with “the powers that be” in Harrisburg to further discuss the initiative.&nbsp;In the meantime, she advises kimchi lovers and anyone who wants to get to know Korean cuisine and heritage to keep their calendars clear for Saturday’s celebration.“It’s a great way to spend the day with your family,” said Allen, “and learn about a different culture.”&nbsp;Love Park | Saturday, October 7, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Free admission | kimchifest.com🍻 Cheers to quality journalism 🍻Philly's food, like local news, connects people to the city and each other. If you learned something new from this free Billy Penn story, will you consider tipping a journalist today?I want BP coverage on Philly eats!The 39-year-old was known to senators and mayors, as well as people who’d been marginalized.There are lots of local connections in the popular movie-turned-musical.Miami’s got the league batting champ — but he might not play. They’re not great on offense — but do love a comeback.The likely next mayor chatted with NBC Philadelphia about a wide range of issues affecting the city.10 questions about charters, answered.Open through the end of the year, the retrospective is packed with posters, photos, and clips of famous concerts.Generations of Owls, civic leaders, and Philadelphians came out to honor the school’s first Black woman president.The $150k position is temporary, she said.The benefit amount has doubled since the last time Margaux Murphy did this, but so have food prices.Whoever they play in the wild card round, the Phils will be favored.Loading...Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.

Get your daily rundown of Philly happenings in less than 10 minutesFREE MORNING NEWSLETTERSkip to content❤️ Love Philly? ❤️Us too — let’s be friends.Catch the Billy Penn newsletter in your inbox 6 days a week for need-to-know news and connections to everything Philadelphia.As members of Philly’s Korean community work to get National Kimchi Day officially recognized in Pennsylvania, they’re kicking things off with a party.On Saturday, the Kimchi Festival returns for its second year at Love Park. Organized by the Korean Cultural Foundation, the daylong event brings workshops, cooking...

Philadelphia Kimchi Festival returns to Love Park on Saturday

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