Hello everybody!
Recently CJ Foods contacted me and offered to send me some Korean ingredients as a way of saying “thank you” for spreading Korean culture and cuisine. It was very kind of them to offer, but after talking to them some more, we decided it would be more fun to set up this giveaway for my readers. This is CJ’s way of encouraging you to cook Korean food, because they know that not everyone can find Korean ingredients easily.
So, leave a comment on this post, and you’ll be entered to win a Korean cooking startup kit from CJ.
Please leave only one comment below, and then there will be 20 winners chosen at random by random.org. This contest is open to anyone in the world. Wherever you live, if you win then CJ will deliver this startup kit to your house.
The contest will close at midnight (New York time), December 15th and I’ll contact the winners through email. The winners need to answer me in 5 days, and if anyone doesn’t answer in time I’ll have to pick the next winner. So please, when you register for my website to leave a comment, make sure you use a current email! And be sure to check your email around that time!
The other cool thing about this startup kit is that a lot of the products in it are from CJ’s new Bibigo brand, which you’ll soon be able to buy outside of Korean grocery stores in the USA. I asked CJ about this, and they said Bibigo is just a new brand name for their Haechandle brand, which I have been using for decades and you may have seen in my ingredients section.
So, good luck to you! I hope you win!
Update Dec 23, 2011 – The contest is now closed, and the winners have been announced. Thank you for entering!




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Wow! Very exciting! It would be amazing to have those ingredients to cook with!
Great idea to set up this contest! Korean food is awesome :)
I’ve been thinking about cooking Korean food for some time now because I’m really curious about the taste. There are no Korean shops or restaurants where I live, so I couldn’t get the right ingredients. Hope I win this. Thank you Maangchi!
Thank you so much, Maangchi, for setting up this contest!!! I hope I can win :)
wow! what a good event!
i wanna win badly….
Wow, thank you Maangchi. I do hope random.org selects my message as it is so hard to find the right ingredients here.
wow yummy korean food looks soooooooo GOOD!!!,i love your videos on youtube…..awesome giveaway ^_^
SUPER EXCITED!!!
I’d love to win that! <3 watching maangchi!!
Hej, I’m so glad that this competition is applicable to readers from around the world because where I live in Sweden, there are very little korean ingredients to be found and I would be really happy to receive this package from CJ to continue experimenting on Korean food:)
Please sign me up for the Korean Startup Kit!! ^__^
Oh god that looks amazing O:
Good luck to everyone~<3
I wanna win! omg. :(
I want all of thessssssssse <3
I never win too :( but i hope i win this one! omg this contest is so cool.. i dont have the words to describe it
Great recipes! Love your videos on Youtube. Hope I win!
I never win contests T_T.. But I really want to sin this one~!! Its so cool ^^
This is a great contest. I love this website and come here often to get Korean recipes. I really love trying new recipes. I hope I win this contest because it would help me make better Korean food!
I hope we win! We love Korean food…the alternative would be for us to fly over to Korea to do some grocery shopping in person! Haha!
안녕하세요~ ^^
It would be so great to win this kit, I lived in Korea during a little bit more than 6 months and I miss Korean food so much… I know some Korean shops, here in Paris, but I never know what I should buy to make delicious Korean food. If I win I wish to make good food for my family and my friends ^^
Thank you for your channel <3
Please enter me! <3
Aawwwww I don’t have a Korean store near me (the closest one is 400km away), I’d be so glad to win :D good luck to everybody and thanks thanks Maangchi!! <3 <3
I really enjoy watching your shows on youtube.
hope i winnnnn!! xoxo :)
Hello Maangchi!!! … im going to type in spanish
Muchísimas gracias por darnos tan maravillosas recetas, me fascino verte cocinando en México, la receta del “kimchi de emergencia” es la que uso, ya que aquí no consigo muchas cosas, muchas gracias por venir a mi país.
Thank you Maangchi…. I hope someday return to Mexico … <3
OMG! BEST CONTEST EVER! please randomator make me wiiiiiiiiiiiin!! :OOOOOOO :D
This start up kit looks amazing. I’ll probably be cooking Korean food every day if I win. :D
Agreed. Most Asian ingredients are hard to find depending on location of where you live. Especially Korean ingredients. Would be amazing to win Korean ingredients and share your cooking with my family and friends. :)
Good luck to everyone :D
I would like to win because I live in Scotland and there is no Asian supermarkets or Asian markets at all so it’s hard to find Korean ingredients.
This is great! Good luck to everyone! ^_^ Whoever wins is going to be so lucky.
I am excited abou tthis contest. I have discoveered Korean food about 8 months ago, and this prize pack would be a great way to start cooking at home. I love watching your videos. You make it look so easy & delicious. Thanks for introducing Korean food to us, and all your hard work in making great videos. :-)
I hope I get picked! C’mooooooon cooking ingredient startup kit, come to me….
It would be so awesome for me to win this :) I live in Iceland and it’s impossible to find Korean products here and I really like Korean food and I like cooking it myself :D
well, 그러길 바래! :P
Good luck everyone!!
omg!!! Manngchi I wanna it so much!! ^^ I wanna use it to cook with my mom!!! yumm!!
Thank you so much for this opportunity!!! I’ve always been a HUGE korean food lover!! But it’s really expensive and difficult to find the right ingredients here in England!! However, once in a while, I do treat myself to a cheeky korean restaurant meal!!!
I hope I win one of the Korean Start Up kits~ 행운을 빌어줘!