With the end of the year nearing, a local volunteer center organized a kimchi-making event to help those in need. As Joseph Kim now reports, this was an especially big help this year, because ingredients for the traditional dish recently got significantly more expensive.



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Jeju City Volunteer Center

Volunteers rolled up their sleeves, preparing to make kimchi for the winter.

Some 200 volunteers, soldiers and office workers participated in the event.

They rubbed the marinade consisting of garlic, sliced radish, red pepper powder, green onions, and a few other ingredients between each leaf of salted cabbage.

The completed side dish is then placed neatly into containers. The containers are ready for delivery to families in need.

The kimchi will make a great side dish during the winter.

INTERVIEW
Yang Yeong-shim / Volunteer
I'm glad that I could help and make kimchi for the disabled and senior citizens living alone.
<인터뷰 : 양연심/자원봉사자>
"홀로 지내는 어르신이랑 장애인분들에게 전해져서 좋아요. 봉사를 통해 김치를 나눠 먹을 수 있어서 좋아요."

INTERVIEW
Kim dong-ju / Volunteer from the JPDC
I'm pleased to help others. I’ll do my best to help this winter be “warm” for the recipients, no matter how cold it might really be.
<인터뷰 : 김동주/道개발공사 직원>
"마음이 뿌듯하고 따뜻합니다. 올겨울 최고의 한파라고 하는데 더욱 따뜻한 겨울 보낼 수 있도록 열심히 하겠습니다."

Volunteers made 29,000 kilograms of kimchi at this event.

Even though the cost of ingredients has increased, more companies and individual donors gave for this year's event than in previous years.

INTERVIEW
Kim Yeong-hui / Director, Jeju City Volunteer Center
The volunteers are working as hard, and with as much feeling, as if they were preparing food for their own families.
<인터뷰 : 김영희/제주시자원봉사센터장>
"자원봉사자들이 자기 형제, 자매처럼 부모님을 생각하는 마음으로 김장을 담그고 있습니다. 모두 자발적으로 나서서 따뜻한 마음으로 열심히 김장 담그고 있습니다."

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Delivered to 2,900 households

The containers of kimchi were delivered to 2,900 families in the low-income bracket including senior citizens living alone.

Looking at the happy faces of all those who received the kimchi gives the volunteers a boost.

[Reporter] Joseph Kim
[Camera] Kim Yong-min

This kimchi-making event, shared among families in need, may not be big, but the love present here is enough to warm up even the coldest of winters.

Joseph Kim, KCTV