“Kimchi is also science”… World Kimchi Research Institute embarks on “training of experts” = South Korea

The World Kimchi Research Institute, a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Communications of the Republic of Korea, is organizing the 2024 Kimchi Leaders Academy to cultivate core leaders who will lead the kimchi industry.
-" educational curriculum will be established and students will be recruited until April 11th. Kimchi has become known to people around the world as a health food with the global Korean boom, and last year's export volume of kimchi was 44,000 tons.
It reached a record high. As the size of the market expands, the economic and cultural value of kimchi is attracting more attention, and the need for specialized human resources to firmly support this is increasing.
. The World Kimchi Research Institute has been designated by the National Agricultural Products Quality Control Service as a ``Kimchi industry specialist training institution,'' and has been running a variety of educational programs to develop specialized personnel since 2012.
"Kimchi Leaders Academy" will be launched in 2020 as an educational program to develop specialized human resources who can adapt to the rapidly changing kimchi industry and domestic and international environments.
Established every year, it has produced a total of 114 kimchi experts to date, who are active in a variety of fields such as kimchi specialist instructors and kimchi manufacturing operations.
This year's educational curriculum will be held every Thursday for approximately 12 weeks starting April 18th.
Chang Hae-chun, director of the World Kimchi Research Institute, said, ``The Kimchi Research Institute aims to further strengthen the position of the suzerainty by promoting diverse
"Together with the experts produced through the Kimchi Leaders Academy, we will pass on kimchi culture to the next generation and lead the innovation of the kimchi industry."
he said.