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Gim, sometimes spelled kim, is a Korean
Culture of Korea

Korea, one of the oldest continuous civilizations in the world, has 5,000 years of history. The current political separation of North Korea and South Korea has resulted in divergence in modern Korean cultures; nevertheless, the traditional culture of Korea is historically shared by both states....
-style edible seaweed
Seaweed

Seaweed is a loose colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthos ocean algae. The term includes some members of the rhodophyta, phycophyta and green algae....
 in the genus Porphyra
Porphyra

Porphyra is a foliose red algal genus of Laver , comprising approximately 70 species. It grows in the intertidal, typically between the upper intertidal to the splash zone....
, similar to the Welsh
Wales

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-style laver
Laver (seaweed)

Laver is an Eating seaweed that has a high mineral salt content, particularly iodine and iron. It is used for making #Laverbread, a traditional Welsh dish....
 and Japanese
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
-style nori
Nori

is the Japanese name for various edible seaweed species of the red alga Porphyra including most notably P. yezoensis and P. tenera, sometimes called laver ....
.

When eaten as a banchan
Banchan

Banchan also spelled panchan, refers to small dishes of food served along with cooked rice in Korean cuisine. This word is used both in the singular and plural....
 (small side dish), it is roasted with sesame oil
Sesame oil

Sesame oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from sesame seeds. Besides being used as a cooking oil in South India, it is often used as a flavor enhancer in Chinese cuisine, Taiwanese cuisine, Korean cuisine, and to a lesser extent, Southeast Asian cuisine....
 and salt seasoning. For use in gimbap, the sheets are not roasted. Sheets of gim are thinner than nori sheets.

Gim has a high content of mineral
Mineral

A mineral is a naturally occurring solid formed through Geology processes that has a characteristic chemical composition, a highly ordered atomic structure, and specific physical properties....
 salt
Salt

A salt, in chemistry, is defined as the product formed from the neutralisation reaction of acids and base . Salts are ionic compounds composed of cations and anions so that the product is electrically electric charge ....
s, particularly iodine
Iodine

Iodine , is a chemical element that has the symbol I and atomic number 53. Naturally-occurring iodine is a single isotope with 74 neutrons....
 and iron
Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
.






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Gim, sometimes spelled kim, is a Korean
Culture of Korea

Korea, one of the oldest continuous civilizations in the world, has 5,000 years of history. The current political separation of North Korea and South Korea has resulted in divergence in modern Korean cultures; nevertheless, the traditional culture of Korea is historically shared by both states....
-style edible seaweed
Seaweed

Seaweed is a loose colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthos ocean algae. The term includes some members of the rhodophyta, phycophyta and green algae....
 in the genus Porphyra
Porphyra

Porphyra is a foliose red algal genus of Laver , comprising approximately 70 species. It grows in the intertidal, typically between the upper intertidal to the splash zone....
, similar to the Welsh
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
-style laver
Laver (seaweed)

Laver is an Eating seaweed that has a high mineral salt content, particularly iodine and iron. It is used for making #Laverbread, a traditional Welsh dish....
 and Japanese
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
-style nori
Nori

is the Japanese name for various edible seaweed species of the red alga Porphyra including most notably P. yezoensis and P. tenera, sometimes called laver ....
.

When eaten as a banchan
Banchan

Banchan also spelled panchan, refers to small dishes of food served along with cooked rice in Korean cuisine. This word is used both in the singular and plural....
 (small side dish), it is roasted with sesame oil
Sesame oil

Sesame oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from sesame seeds. Besides being used as a cooking oil in South India, it is often used as a flavor enhancer in Chinese cuisine, Taiwanese cuisine, Korean cuisine, and to a lesser extent, Southeast Asian cuisine....
 and salt seasoning. For use in gimbap, the sheets are not roasted. Sheets of gim are thinner than nori sheets.

Gim has a high content of mineral
Mineral

A mineral is a naturally occurring solid formed through Geology processes that has a characteristic chemical composition, a highly ordered atomic structure, and specific physical properties....
 salt
Salt

A salt, in chemistry, is defined as the product formed from the neutralisation reaction of acids and base . Salts are ionic compounds composed of cations and anions so that the product is electrically electric charge ....
s, particularly iodine
Iodine

Iodine , is a chemical element that has the symbol I and atomic number 53. Naturally-occurring iodine is a single isotope with 74 neutrons....
 and iron
Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
. It is prepared by drying the seaweed, and cutting it into very thin square sheets, which are seasoned with sesame oil
Sesame oil

Sesame oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from sesame seeds. Besides being used as a cooking oil in South India, it is often used as a flavor enhancer in Chinese cuisine, Taiwanese cuisine, Korean cuisine, and to a lesser extent, Southeast Asian cuisine....
 and salt. It is served toasted and cut into smaller squares as a side dish, or rolled to make gimbap
Gimbap

Gimbap or kimbap is a popular Korean cuisine#Korean snacks made from steamed white rice and various other ingredients, rolled in Gim and served cold in bite-size slices....
.

There are about ten varieties of gim in Korea. The most common are chamgim (Porphyra tenera) and bangsamuni gim (P. yezoensis). Others include dungeun gim (P. kuniedai), dungeun dolgim (P. suboriculata), and momuni gim (P. seriata).

Gim is thought to have been eaten at least since the Unified Silla
Unified Silla

Unified Silla or Later Silla is the name often applied to the kingdom of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, when it conquered Baekje in 660 and Goguryeo in 668....
 period. Gim was cultivated in Korea since the mid-Joseon
Joseon

Joseon, Choson, or Chosun are English spellings of the Korean word for North Korea, during various periods of its history :*Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom(legend period founded by Chinese Adherents or Displaced persons), from 2333 BC to 108 BC....
 period, mentioned in texts dated 1420, as a local product of the Jeolla
Jeolla

Jeolla was one of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. Jeolla was located in the southwest of Korea. The provincial capital was Jeonju....
 district. It was recorded in 1429 that gim was sent to China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
. A 1650 record describes it as very expensive. Various new techniques of cultivation developed in 1600s and 1800s.

In 1980, Ungjin
Ungjin

Ungjin, also known as Gomnaru is a former city on the Korean Peninsula. It was located in modern-day Gongju, South Chungcheong province, South Korea....
's chamgim was designated Natural Treasure Number 134 by the South Korean government.

See also

  • Nori
    Nori

    is the Japanese name for various edible seaweed species of the red alga Porphyra including most notably P. yezoensis and P. tenera, sometimes called laver ....
  • Kombu
    Kombu

    Kombu or konbu , also called dashima or haidai , are edible kelp from the family Laminariaceae widely eaten in East Asia....
  • Banchan
    Banchan

    Banchan also spelled panchan, refers to small dishes of food served along with cooked rice in Korean cuisine. This word is used both in the singular and plural....
  • Korean cuisine