Someting tells me you didn't like the food in Korea.
Much of the Korean food I did enjoy, and before you ask, yes I did try Kaegogi (hot and spicy dog). The produce was just damn scary though and almost all of it was imported. So it was wilted, frozen, thawed and refrozen gawd knows how many times, and their practises concerning agriculture aren't exactly what you've come to expect to see when you lived around it all your life...