About

Hi! I’m Maangchi. Welcome to my website.

For fun, I started posting videos of myself cooking Korean food on YouTube in April 2007. I’m not a professional chef and I don’t have a TV show. I like cooking, just like you. But I was surprised at how many people wanted to watch them, and how passionate they were about learning how to cook Korean food. From the very beginning people were very enthusiastic and supportive.

From these videos people were asking for the full written recipes, so I made this website and posted recipes. Then they were curious about ingredients, so I posted ingredients as well. In fact everything on this site has been driven by my readers and viewers and their suggestions.

I’m very blessed to have met so many wonderful people through YouTube and my website. I love to make and eat delicious food, so this is a dream for me.

People sometimes ask me questions about myself and how I got the name Maangchi and all kinds of things. If you want to know, you can watch this video that I made when I was “tagged”:

Korean news also did a special report on me, and you might be interested in that:

Thanks for your interest in my recipes, and take care!