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!
What an amazing basket! Hope I win!
Really hope I can win this, amazing recipes and the ingredients look fantastic!
Good luck to everyone!
Thank you for this opportunity Maangchi and CJ Foods! It’s such a good idea (:
Hi I LOVE korean food and your recipes. However, I never ate any or made any. I live in a small town that has no korean store or anything about korean nearby so this startup kit will be a great start. ^o^ Thanks for everything and Good Luck
Wow, this is GREAT! I always would get confused what BRAND to buy so this would be a great opportunity to win, and if I do not win, it doesn’t matter. I would just go buy what I see in the basket.
Good Luck to all !
i love this idea for a contest! i love cooking korean food for my family and winning this contest will help me alot! thank u!
Oh I hope I get chosen! That basket of goodies looks good!!! If not, i want you to know that I truly enjoy your cooking videos!
Hey Maangchi! I’ve been watching your videos from very earlier on when you first started posting your recipes! My mom is very sick and so I had to learn how to cook korean food, myself. Thanks for all the great videos and the chance to win this competition! Keep posting your awesome vids and you go on an adventure on your dream trip!
What a great idea for a contest. I live in an area where Korean ingredients are really hard to come by. I’m crossing my fingers!
Hi Maangchi! What a great idea! I live in Utah, so it’s very difficult for me to be able to find all of these ingredients, and it’s so sad because I LOVE korean food so much. It would be great to get this startup kit and start trying out all of your recipes!
I LOVE KOREAN FOOD!! :D Kdramas especially ^____________^ I hope i am one of the lucky winners! I would love to be able to cook delicious korean food with these things :D
Hello Maangchi,
I love KOrean food and I am always making and eating it. To win this contest will be great
HI! I hope I win this contest! love you videos!
I would love to win this contest so that I can cook something other than lasagna, spaghetti, or hot dogs for my family!!! My husband loves it when I try to make new things for dinner, but since he’s a soldier in the Army I tend to get in a routine and cook the same basic things. I’d love to win and change that up for him- I think my kiddos would love it too. It’d be great to introduce my babies to new foods that Momma can make!!! ^_^
What a nice contest. Ms. Maangchi, you are an Internet star, doing what you love. I found you from your Kim Chi, and now I read your recipes regularly. I just made a lot of beautiful kim chi today, about 8 kg, for myself and friends!! Thank you again !
Just found your youtube channel and love what ive seen so far ….. thanks for the easy step by step instructions
I hope I win!
This is my first time entering any contest online so wouldn’t it be funny if I win. LOL!
Maangchi ssi, thank you so much for sharing all of your knowledge and love of Korean food. It has helped to motivate me to finally take the time and learn to cook Korean food.
^___^ 음식 좋아 좋아!~
Hi Maangchi!! I love all your videos and now you are offering this opportunity… I hope to get the starter kit because some of the stuff is not found here in my country… Jaebal..!!
I went to Korea last October and simply love it.. So ‘crossfingers’ and hope to win it!!
Hello to Maangchi and all of your fans…
I use many of your recipes and take food to my mother who resides in a nursing home an hour away. She is originally from Pusan, South Korea. She enjoys her homeland cuisine so very much. My father and brother often attend Sunday dinners. Your recipes bring our family together – thank you so much!
Linda Bess
Fort Wayne, IN
Hi Maangchi. I found your site while looking for recipes and found it very useful. This contest is a wonderful idea to inspire your followers to try new recipes. Thanks for the videos too!
….Aren´t you just the best dear Maangchi <3 – giving away stuff you GET AS A GIFT due to your knowdleged of all you wonderful readers world wide… wow! ^__^ <3
If any, you are the "QUEEN" of Korean cooking… LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!! cant wait to meet up again someday in the near future :) and so greatful for everything you have tought me when it comes to korean cooking/skills.
I am so happy that I had the honor to meet with you here in little old Denmark…. and I would love to be one of the winners for this funny contest. And I would, as well as you… If I am one of the lucky winners…. pass it on to members of The Korea Klubben in DK at one of our social cookin events… that could be so much fun and joy! JB foods are so wise… and so right, it is not everywhere there is accec to buying korean groceries.
Wish you a beautiful weekend and safe and sound trip…. YOU ARE THE AWESOME ONE!
Have a great one. Take care, always <3
Hi Maangchi, My name is Eva and I am from Hong Kong. I am one of your subscribers and like to watch your cooking videos as my interest is cooking. From you, I learnt that Korean food could be something else other than BBQ beef which I can have it in the Korean restaurant in Hong Kong. I am glad to know that you allow anybody from the world to join this campaign for winning the Korean cooking kit. Hope I can get it and I can start up to cook Korean food which I seldom do.
Hi Maangchi;)
I love Korean food but it’s sometimes hard to find the ingredients here in my area…
It’s my birthday coming up so I want to make Korean food with my friends;)
we’re gonna make japchae and ddukbokkie;)
Thank you so much for your recipe;)
Hi Maangchi! I love Korean food and your recipes! I’m really bad at cooking but I managed to make tasty food following your recipes lol Unfortunately there’s no Korean supermarket in Belgium so it’s not always easy to find the right ingredients. That’s why I hope I can win the Korean cooking startup kit ^^ Good luck to everyone!
I Hope i win!
I WANT!!!!! amazing contest!! wish im one of the lucky winners!!!
korean food here i come~
Omg! I would love to win a free korean starter kit!! :) i love korean food but dont know how to cook it well yet. I love your show maangchi! The food u make always look so delicious! I wish u were my personal cook!! :)
Hi Maangchi. One of my best friend is Korean and whenever I visit him, his mom would cook all these great Korean dishes. I watch your channel to get recipe and maybe one day, cook something for my friend’s mom.
Wow! What a cool gift basket. Very nice of you to offer for your readers to win. I’ve enjoyed following your Gapshida tour very much. You’re a great role model for many young women out there as you are a self-made success, never forgetting your roots or about your fans. Thanks for everything you do!
I love Korean food. Here in Hawaii, we have lots of Korean restaurants around, but I’d like to make it at home.
Love, LOve, LOVe, LOVE watching and learning from your simple and straightforward (and very tasty) videos!!
Hi Maangchi!!!My parents got divorced when I was little and my mom is korean.So,since I live with my dad I didn’t get the chance to taste anymore korean food.All thanks to you,I learned how to cook at 11 years old and i’ve been cooking for 2 years!!!1Thank you so much Maangchi for your awesome videos and cooking lessons.It was also awesome to meet you.