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Haejeo bang (Imwon gyeongje-ji seafood seokbakji)해저방 (醢菹方)

Haejeo bang is the early 19th-century recipe in Seo Yu-gu's Imwon gyeongje-ji for a rich mixed kimchi. Salted radish with its greens is mixed with cucumber, cabbage, cheonggak seaweed, spices, yellow croaker, jeotgal, abalone, conch and octopus, and abalone shells go into the jar. It is a text-only reconstruction, read here only through a secondary summary.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Haejeo bang itself. Its own sources do not record how it is made, so the steps and scenes below are those of Seokbakji (mixed-chunk kimchi), the closest documented vegetables ferment, shown as a guide to the method, not as a record of Haejeo bang.

Short entryVegetables

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedText-only reconstruction; no amounts in the summary read.
Radish with leaves and stems, salted[KoWiki]
Cucumber, cabbage and cheonggak seaweed[KoWiki]
Chilli, ginger, cheoncho, garlic and mustard[KoWiki]
Yellow croaker, jeotgal, abalone, conch and octopus[KoWiki]
Abalone shells[KoWiki]

Total time across the steps of Seokbakji (mixed-chunk kimchi): 24 days – 26 days

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Close-up: salt moving into a piece

What changes: Radish, cabbage and leaf mustard are salted for a few days

Step 1 of 4 · steps of Seokbakji (mixed-chunk kimchi)
Salt the radish, cabbage and leaf mustard
Time
3–5 days
Reported
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Lactobacillus

The radish is salted only lightly, so that it is not too salty.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Haejeo bang is the early 19th-century recipe in Seo Yu-gu's Imwon gyeongje-ji for a rich mixed kimchi. Salted radish with its greens is mixed with cucumber, cabbage, cheonggak seaweed, spices, yellow croaker, jeotgal, abalone, conch and octopus, and abalone shells go into the jar. It is a text-only reconstruction, read here only through a secondary summary.

What makes this one different

Haejeo is a seokbakji-type kimchi loaded with fresh seafood, and it is unusual in putting abalone shells into the jar. Seokbakji in Gyuhap chongseo (1809) layers similar seafood with radish and cabbage but does not mention shells.

Related ferments

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

Seo Yu-gu also wrote that plenty of chilli helps radish keep longer. The folk museum's encyclopedia traces seokbakji to 1795 court records and gives the first full recipe from Gyuhap chongseo (1809), with croaker, abalone, conch and octopus layered among radish and cabbage.

  1. [KoWiki] Korean Wikipedia, 김치 (sections 역사, 종류, 지역별 김치; one-line definitions follow the Standard Korean Language Dictionary), read 2026-10-16: 김치, 조선 시대 sectionwiki
  2. [nfm-seokbakji] National Folk Museum of Korea, Encyclopedia of Korean Folk Culture, Korean Food, Clothing and Housing (한국의식주생활사전), 섞박지; KOGL type 2, facts only; read 2026-10book