Sunday, January 5, 2014

Inside a YouTube Empire Built on Kitsch and Kimchi

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Simon and Martina Stawski relax at the table, wine in hand. They spent a long day shooting and editing with their Pekinese dog Spudgy and Scottish Fold cat Dr. Meemersworth. Even though it's midnight and they're exhausted, they laugh about the day and their hectic schedules as the pets get into mischief behind him



The Canadian pair, both 30, run the popular Korean culture YouTube channel Eat Your Kimchi from Seoul, South Korea





In 2008, the couple moved over 6,000 miles from hometown Toronto to teach English in South Korea, never expecting that five years later they'd still be living there. But they found their calling. Instead of explaining the finer points of grammar and pronunciation to school kids, they chose to detail Korean lifestyle, food and music via video. Now each of their vlogs receives hundreds of thousands of views on average. Read more...


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