The Story Behind Guri City's 'Yuchae Flower Kimchi'

[Asia Economy (Guri) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Guri City in Gyeonggi Province is making kimchi with canola flowers and delivering it to over 3,000 vulnerable groups.

On the 12th, Guri City announced that it made canola kimchi together with four organizations: Saemaeul Association, Barugesalgi Movement, Korea Freedom Federation, and Korean Red Cross Volunteer Society.

Guri City holds a canola flower festival every spring and a cosmos festival in autumn at Hangang Park. To this end, it created the largest canola flower and cosmos complex along the Hangang River, covering an area of 400,000㎡.

However, this year, the city canceled the canola flower festival to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus infection. Nevertheless, the canola flower complex was created as planned, and local citizens and social organizations were allowed to manage and operate the canola fields.

Using the canola harvested here, the city made 3,000 kg of kimchi. The canola kimchi will be delivered at 1 kg per household to 3,000 vulnerable households. The city left the canola flowers at the edges of the complex.

The city plans to harvest the remaining canola flowers later, make tea from them, and distribute it additionally to the vulnerable groups.

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