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By Do Je-hae
Before I got into cooking several years ago, I used YouTube primarily to listen to classical music or learn how to play certain pieces on the piano, such the Chopin Polonaise in A-flat.
Now the video-sharing website has become an indispensable tool for me in learning how to cook Korean food or 'hansik.' In the YouTube era, I'm sure this is the case for not just working women like myself, but for countless others who want to improve their cooking skills without having to attend classes or tune into a TV cooking program at a designated time.
My favorite cooking channel on YouTube is Maangchi (the pseudonym of the presenter), who was described by the New York Times as 'YouTube's Korean Julia Child.' My heart lights up whenever she uploads a new video and I am always tempted to try her latest recipe.
Now the New York-based online cooking star has more than one million subscribers on YouTube and has a revenue-sharing partnership with it that allows her to shoot her videos and cook full time. Since I started my column for The Korea Times a while ago, the first person I wanted to interview was Maangchi because I wanted to share her amazing YouTube work with foreign readers of our paper.
Before interviewing her,...