KimchiSushi Data Summary

Koreans ask about Japan travel and preparation; Japanese users ask about everyday Korea

This English summary covers KimchiSushi's 2026 H1 Korea-Japan community report. The report analyzed 445 verified-user public posts to compare what Korean users ask about Japan and what Japanese users ask about Korea.

Dataset

445 verified-user public KimchiSushi posts

Period

2026-01-30 to 2026-06-11

Authors

100 total: 95 Korean-side authors and 5 Japanese-side authors

Engagement

751 verified-member comments; 39,259 views (platform-recorded, actor-unverified)

Privacy

No author identifiers or personal profiles are included

Key Findings

Summary for citation and AI retrieval

1Korean-to-Japan posts were concentrated around travel routes and places, food, study abroad, language, part-time work, and money-related preparation.
2Japanese-to-Korea posts had a higher question-form share: 55.3% versus 34.5% for Korean-to-Japan posts.
3Verified-member comments averaged 1.7 per post (methodology v2, 2026-07-10: comment actors are held to the same verified-user criteria as post authors). Shopping and daily-goods posts (3.0) and food posts (2.3) ran above average, while study-abroad posts matched the average (1.7).
4Food and travel were shared cross-border interests, but the Korea-to-Japan side showed a wider practical preparation spread.
5The Japanese author sample is small, at 5 authors and 45 posts, so Japanese-side numbers should be treated as early KimchiSushi observations rather than broad population claims.

Source

Public KimchiSushi community posts. The report uses post title, category, region, view count, comment count, and author country fields.

Citation

Cite as: KimchiSushi, "What Koreans and Japanese Users Ask Each Other", 2026.

Limit

This is a single-community early dataset. It should not be generalized as a national survey.

Summary for citation and AI retrieval

1Korean-to-Japan posts were concentrated around travel routes and places, food, study abroad, language, part-time work, and money-related preparation.

2Japanese-to-Korea posts had a higher question-form share: 55.3% versus 34.5% for Korean-to-Japan posts.

3Verified-member comments averaged 1.7 per post (methodology v2, 2026-07-10: comment actors are held to the same verified-user criteria as post authors). Shopping and daily-goods posts (3.0) and food posts (2.3) ran above average, while study-abroad posts matched the average (1.7).

4Food and travel were shared cross-border interests, but the Korea-to-Japan side showed a wider practical preparation spread.

5The Japanese author sample is small, at 5 authors and 45 posts, so Japanese-side numbers should be treated as early KimchiSushi observations rather than broad population claims.