| Alt Name: | Fermented Family Balhyo Family |
| Genre: | Romance Comedy Drama |
| Director: | Park Chan-hong |
| Starring: | Song Il-kook Park Jin-hee Lee Min-young Choi Jae-sung |
| Country: | South Korea |
| Language: | Korean |
| Num Episodes: | 24 |
| Location: | Korea |
| Runtime: | 70 minutes |
| Company: | Jidam Inc. (formerly Yein E&M)</small> |
| Channel: | JTBC |
Kimchi Family[1] is a 2011 South Korean television series, starring Song Il-kook, Park Jin-hee, Lee Min-young and Choi Jae-sung. Song plays a gangster who turns over a new leaf and begins working at a kimchi restaurant run by two sisters.[2] [3] [4] [5] The series aired on jTBC from December 7, 2011 to February 23, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 20:45 (KST) for 24 episodes.[6] [7]
Lee Kang-san (Park Jin-hee) and Lee Woo-Joo (Lee Min-young) are sisters who suddenly have to take over running their family's traditional kimchi restaurant Chunjiin ("Heaven, Earth, and Man") after their father leaves without notice. The sisters must keep the restaurant going on their own, but they get some help from a troubled man, Ki Ho-tae (Song Il-gook), who shows up at the restaurant looking for his missing past. Ho-tae is an orphan who grew up to become a member of a crime syndicate, but he starts a new life as a worker at Chunjiin where he discovers the perks of having an excellent palate. Together with the other restaurant employees, long-time customers, and a growing circle of friends, they work towards their individual goals while finding warmth and family through their sharing of food and support of each other.