It's common all over. Fermented cabbage is also called sauerkraut.

Now I feel a need to spin up and emulator or something capable of playing Castle Wolfenstein.

(Dear god, I'm showing my age there, aren't I?)

What, the C64 game?

Whatever it is, I'm absolutely certain that it can be launched in a few seconds on archive.org, with no special software requirements besides the JavaScript interpreter that a web browser already has, and that all of this can happen even on your standard-issue pocket supercomputer.

(Every couple of years I fire up an Apple ][ version of Oregon Trail on archive.org because even though we had a PC at home way back when, that's the version I remember playing in school. That game is still hard and I'm not sure exactly what it is that it is supposed to teach except that dysentery is evil.)

> What, the C64 game?

Apple][ in my case. Very early 80s, definitely before 83.

I'm guessing it was common in Korea before chilis were brought back from the americas.

Chilli was introduced to Kimchi during the Imjin War. The Portuguese had brought them to Japan perviously, as far as I've seen all kimchi recipe prior to that is only garlic heavy, I like that style of kimchi better personally.

my understanding of the development was that chili was used to cut the amount of salt, which wasn't cheap to produce