Subtitles by OnDemandKorea
In order to keep global peace and sustain a safe world,
many heads of state would gather at the UN for summit meetings.
On the other hand, there are those who were never officially sent,
but who claim that they represent their own countries.
Such people have gathered for a Non Summit Meeting for the peace of world's youths.
(Episode 162)
We hereby open up the floor.
I'm Jeon Hyun-moo, the chairman of the borderless youth committee, Non-summit.
I'm Secretary General Yoo Se-yoon.
I'm Chairman Sung Si-kyung.
We're Jeon-Yoo-Sung!
(Welcome, Representatives!)
America's got the Billboard Charts, Japan's got the Oricon Charts.
And we've got the Non-Board Charts!
This week, we're looking up the ranking for countries with the most pets.
A global market research company in Germany called GfK did a survey in 22 countries,
with 27,000 people around the world.
They did a research on how many pets a country has.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs,
Korea has about 10 million people who have pets in their homes.
I'm curious to see how high Korea will rank, as well as your countries.
Starting from 10th place...
It's the Czech Republic!
Dogs are the most popular pets there.
They drink a lot of beer there.
What do pets have to do with beer?
They drink the most amount of beer in the world!
- But why do they have so many dogs? - Because they're drunk?
Maybe they counted the drunk people as dogs.
(Maybe they counted wrong because they were drunk?)
Well, drunk people are not pets.
Just friends.
The country famous for having cats as pets,
France came in as 9th place.
Known for cats!
41% of those who have pets in France answered that they have cats.
France is a little...
Cats do their own thing, and dogs follow humans well.
It matches how the French people come off as, a little stand-off-ish.
Cats are like that, right?
(The French cats are even more stand-off-ish?)
Yes, similar in personality.
I think they're even more popular these days because of the Internet.
It's because there are so many videos of cats on the Internet.
(Cute cat videos are popular online)
(Many people are addicted)
They call cats that follow humans well, "dog-cats" these days.
But "the dog-cats" give even greater emotional impact than just dogs.
These cats would flip around and ask to scratch their belly.
"They're not normally like this, why are they being this cute?"
(That's how you become a cat's servant)
8th place goes to...
Australia!
Oddly, most of them have fish as their pets.
Following it is 7th place,
Italy!
They love their pets so much that they have separate insurances for pets.
I thought we'd be ranked higher.
- You thought you'd be higher? - Yeah, we have many pets.
I think this is based on the percentage, not the actual number of people.
Then China would be number one!
It'll have to be China.
(Looking forward to China's rank)
Many Italians live in houses, not in apartments.
And most house owners have dogs.
They have big dogs?
They mostly have German Shepherds.
They love them.
Do they also have small dogs?
For the smaller ones... The Beagle?
They're popular.
They're very cute.
They also have a lot of parrots as pets in Italy.
Parrots?
Yes, the kind that talks.
Do other countries have parrots as pets too?
I've only heard them speak Italian.
(From daily conversations)
(Did you see the rain?)
(To rapping a storm)
(A great partner to have with many abilities!)
Sixth place goes to...
Poland!
About 45% have dogs as pets.
You know the Pomeranian?
They're so cute!
They're named after the region called "Pomerania" in the northwest of Poland.
They're also very popular in Korea.
They shed a lot.
(Out of nowhere?)
Maybe some gifts will be left for you on your chair.
I came home and found four little lumps of poop on my chair!
(The memory of poop found in his home)
Oh, that mystery...
The greatest mystery of this summer!
I'm gonna make it into a movie someday.
(Worries more about poop than fur)
And 5th place goes to Brazil!
As the population of one-person family grows, they tend to have more pets.
and the country's president is famous for being a pet-lover,
Russia takes 4th place!
He brought his big pet for a summit, too.
Unlike President Putin, most Russians prefer cats over dogs.
Ranks one, two, and three are remaining.
Rank three is America, heaven of all pets.
What do the Americans think of their pets?
It truly is heaven of all pets.
About 37% have dogs as pets,
and about 30% have cats for pets.
But the Americans cherish their pets so much that they consider them
equal to humans.
They buy expensive clothes and food for their pets.
The pet market is valued as much as 60 billion dollars.
The Americans refer to their pets as "she" or "he."
They don't say, "it."
They consider them like humans.
What the most popular dog name in America?
Maybe... Rover?
They use common names like Rover or Rex.
- Max? - Rex?
Alex?
And there are pets the children especially like.
They're guinea pigs and hamsters.
They're popular pets in America.
The kids really love them, they're cute.
Inside hamster cages, there are toys and slides and stuff.
They make hamster cages like playgrounds.
But they don't live for that long.
It's sad for the children.
He's so mean, isn't he?
My family used to have a hamster.
But it died after about a year.
Then we took it to a pet service center,
and we saw that they have funeral services for pets.
So we asked for the funeral service for our hamster.
I'll announce second place now.
It's Mexico!
Mexico has more pets than the United States.
Mexicans really love animals.
They consider pets as additional members of the family.
But because the younger generation does not want to have children early these days,
people started to have more pets instead.
In terms of the market, children's food industry grew 8% over the past 5 years.
But pet food industry grew 28% over the same period.
What's the most popular kind of dog in Mexico?
Labrador.
- The black ones! - The Labrador Retriever.
That's the most popular.
They get big fast, too.
They're very cool.
Now, for first place...
First place goes to...
Argentina!
82% of Argentinians have pets.
Almost everyone then!
This one couldn't make it to top ten, but 12th place is Canada.
There's a certain age group that has more pets than others?
Yes, there's a certain time period many people have pets in.
The parents would get lonely once their children move out on their own.
So about 75% of all pet owners fall into between the ages of 45 and 54.
Reptiles have been popular pets, like snakes and green iguanas.
But there are legal restrictions because they're dangerous once they get too big.
Especially the snakes.
Snakes over 3 meters in length are illegal to have.
There were incidents where people got snakes from wild life
and had them as pets.
And someone called 911 and said the snake rapped around his neck.
Outsider, the rapper, has a turtle in his house.
But it's huge!
They're popular.
But his is really big!
He walks this huge turtle in the park.
Maybe it's because he's known to be a very speedy rapper that he got a turtle.
Oh, to balance out?
Maybe he wants to rest.
Coming in at number 16 is Germany, and they pay pet taxes.
I don't understand this.
I thought Germany would rank higher.
We're famous for loving our pets.
We're similar to the Americans regarding pets.
Cats are the most popular, then dogs.
Guinea pigs are the third most popular.
There are about 6 million pet guinea pigs just in Germany,
It's because they're easy for the kids to take care of.
They're cute-looking, so easy to like them.
I think that's why they're so popular.
No taxes for having guinea pigs, right?
No taxes for guinea pigs.
We have Korea, China, Japan, and Swiss remaining from here.
China is ranked at number 19.
Number 20 is Japan.
Chinese people love fish, no?
Yes, you're right!
If I can explain why they love fish as pets so much...
The fish symbolize relaxation in China.
Being relaxed.
And water represents possessions.
So when you have fish at home, it shows that the person has enough possessions.
And the Chinese people must have an odd number of fish.
You get in trouble if you have an even number?
They don't think it's a good thing.
There's a type of fish that's been very popular lately in China.
It's called "the dragon fish."
It looks a bit like a dragon.
- It's expensive, right? - It can get expensive.
It can go for as high as 50,000 dollars.
(The price of a car!)
The red ones and the gold ones are the most popular.
Is there insurance for them?
They're so expensive, but what if they just die?
They live for about 10 years.
You'd make a few thousand dollars when they have babies.
Yes, many people have it for that reason, too.
Oh, like an investment.
I was surprised to find Japan so low in ranking.
But these days, not a lot of landlords would allow pets for the tenants.
Many places ban having pets.
I'm sure a lot of people would like to have pets but they can't.
They don't have a lot of space.
So a certain type of pet has been popular.
It's hedgehog.
So cute!
They're very cute, and you can have them in small spaces.
They're popular among people in their 20s to 40s who live alone.
Can you touch them?
Yes, you can.
Just put medicine after?
(Hedgedogs do not raise their spikes at their owners)
An animal doctor who works at a vet said this once.
He said that 20 to 30% of all animal patients are hedgehogs.
It shows how many people have hedgehogs for pets.
This survey was done in 22 different countries.
The country that came in 22nd place with the most pets is
Korea.
Just 37% of the people who took the survey said they have pets.
What kind of pets do Koreans have?
Many Koreans live in high rise apartments without yards.
So the dogs can't run around the house with tongues out and stuff.
(Koreans prefer smaller dogs)
Small dogs are popular in Korea because of it.
Many people have cats too, people have various pets these days.
But Swiss is not ranked at all.
How come it's not ranked? Don't they all have cows in Swiss?
(One cow per each family)
My father did always say that he wanted to raise a cow.
It's because he won't have to mow the lawn if he had a cow.
Houses in Swiss are big, often with yards.
They're ideal to have pets.
A lot of people have birds and fish as pets in Swiss.
There is a new law there that you can't just have one bird or fish,
you need to have multiple.
I'm sure the number will go up soon.
- Because they get lonely? - Yes.
President Moon Jae-in's love for pets has gotten a lot of interest, too.
He's got a dog named "Maru," and a cat named "Jingjing-yi."
He also adopted an abandoned dog named "Tori."
Tori became the very first "first dog" that had been abandoned before.
Macron, the French President, also said that he'll adopt an abandoned dog.
I'm curious to know "first pets" from other countries.
President Trump doesn't have any pets.
He's not known to keep many traditions as a president.
Twenty five of the past American presidents all had pets.
But President Trump doesn't have any pets and he said that he has no plan
to get pets in the future.
Many people are concerned over it, saying that the 150-years-old-tradition is broken.
It is a little disappointing, but the past presidents had many pets.
Some were unusual.
The 26th president of the United States, President Roosevelt,
made a whole zoo inside the White House.
The zoo had lions, bears, and zebras.
He turned it into a huge deal.
He had bears!
It's not that he just had pets, he had a zoo!
Not a lot of Americans know this, actually.
Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada didn't have any pet before.
But he visited President Obama in March.
And President Obama has two Portuguese Water Dogs.
Their names are Bo and Sunny.
They're very cute.
They're famous on social media.
These dogs have social media accounts of their own.
Recently, Prime Minister Trudeau also posted a picture of a Portuguese Water Dog.
I think Trudeau saw Obama's dogs and followed suit.
Prime Minister Berlusconi of Italy was famous for having pet dogs.
He had 8 dogs.
One of them was very popular, his name was Dudu.
Berlusconi would often come to official settings with Dudu in his arms.
Dudu was so popular that a reporter once asked Berlusconi if it was on purpose
that he brings his dog out.
When asked this question, Berlusconi, who's famous for being witty,
said that a politician who has dogs is better than a politician who's like a dog.
- Dudu's very popular. - He seems happy.
She's not a Swiss, but Queen Elizabeth in Britain had 30 dogs so far.
Her favorite kind is the Welsh Corgi.
Yes, the short-legged ones.
That dog was even engraved on the queen's 50th anniversary coin.
That's how much she likes the dog.
Oddly enough, Japan doesn't really have the concept of "first pets."
So the pets of the head of state don't get any attention.
But Abe, the current minister, has a miniature dachshund.
Its name is "Roy Jang."
Abe's been having a difficult time these days...
I think Roy is healing him.
On the other hand, Park Geun-hae left 9 Jindo dogs behind when she
left the Blue House.
Are there other famous people who were as irresponsible as she was?
One of the former Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti,
had a very cold and strict image to the public.
Because he comes off so cold, a female MC brought a puppy for an interview.
The public response was great, and the minister softened up with the puppy.
He got famous for it, and he took the puppy home to raise as his own pet.
He named it "Empi" for empathy.
So Empi the Puppy got popular, and so did the minister.
So Minister Monti would bring out the puppy often for photos.
But the next election, Monti lost to Berlusconi.
After his loss, Monti stopped posting pictures of the puppy.
People began to ask about the puppy, where it went.
They think he threw it away.
He just used the puppy for his public image then.
I'm not sure, but it seems like it.
Maybe it's a revenge to the public.
"You didn't vote for me, so I won't show you my puppy pictures anymore."
Oh, like he'll be the only one who can see his puppy!
I'm sure he still has the puppy, just not shown to the public.
- I hope that's the case. - I might be the case.
When Justin Bieber came to Germany in 2013 for a concert,
he brought Molly, his pet monkey.
But there was a problem at the airport, and it was taken away there.
What's appalling is that Justin Bieber didn't take the monkey back after
his concert.
- Really? - Yes, it became an issue.
The airport kept telling Justin Bieber to take back his monkey.
But he just ignored them.
So Molly was sent to a zoo in Germany.
Even after that point, they kept requesting Justin Bieber for the cost of
taking care of Molly.
But Justin Bieber didn't respond to any of their requests.
He abandoned the monkey then.
Celebrities in Korea have been involved in pet-related campaigns or donations.
Are there celebrities in your countries who do the same?
Shark fin is a popular dish in China.
- Shark's fin. - Yes, people think it's nutritious.
But the sharks die without their fins, right?
They just cut off the fins and throw away the bodies.
They're just left to die in the ocean.
The NBA athlete Yao Ming did a campaign to stop shark fin trades.
Shark fin trades have decreased down to 50 to 70 percent.
That's good.
A similar problem happened in Canada.
It's about Ryan Reynolds, who was in Dead Pool, the movie,
wrote an article in 2009 in Huffington Post about protecting the seals.
Seals are often killed for their fur.
Fur coats go for thousands of dollars, and they die so painfully.
Carrie Underwood is famous in the United States.
There was a famous incident where she rescued an abandoned dog on the freeway
she was driving on.
She rescued two dogs.
She's been active in that field.
She's actively involved in campaigns for adopting abandoned pets.
She also donates a portion of her album sales to animal rights groups.
She's famous for such activities.
We talked about pets from around the world.
Our show is also a companion to our viewers, like a pet.
We'll begin our main discussion.
We'll invite our Non-Summit representative.
It would've been nice to have chicken soup with them during the hottest summer days.
They eat a lot, and they eat well! Yu Min-sang and Kim Joon-hyun!
(Yu Min-sang: Comedian Kim Joon-hyun: Comedian)
(Twin giants come on the show)
(They eat well alone and with together)
(Elegant big eaters, Yu Min-sang and Kim Joon-hyun)
Welcome!
(I saw it!)
I understand you brought tissues for sweating.
Please introduce yourselves officially.
It's nice to meet you! I'm Yoo Min-sang, a comedian. Hello!
(It's nice to meet you!)
I'm honored to be here.
It's my second time being here.
I'm Kim Joon-hyun, a comedian. It's nice to meet you!
(Nice to see you!)
All of you were KBS comedians?
Yoo Min-sang is a year older than me.
Kim Joon-hyun is the same age as me.
But they debuted much later than I did.
Not by a lot for me, just a year.
I debuted about 3 years after, so much later.
I watch your food show often, I like cooking shows too.
You did gain weight from it.
Oh yes, from before.
The four of you on that food show used to be a little thinner.
You got nothing to worry about though.
It's actually normal for us to gain weight as we get older.
It's very dangerous if we start to lose weight, actually.
- It'll be disastrous! - It'll be strange.
(They're worried that they might lose weight)
I can tell you for myself, that I didn't gain a single kilogram.
I pour out blood and sweat to take care of myself.
I make sure I never go above 120 kg.
(How amazing!)
It's very hard being a celebrity.
Have you been to many places overseas?
No, but Joon-hyun has.
What have you eaten?
I gotta ask you about food.
Well, I've eaten a lot of things.
I've always wanted to eat a real pizza from Italy, a really well-made one.
(It's true!)
I went to Venice and got lost for 2 hours.
I finally got to a pizza place that's 200 years old.
It's gotta be a real pizza place!
I ordered pizza but it was just tomato sauce and cheese for toppings.
I was just staring at it for a while.
"What's up with this pizza?"
So it was just a pizza.
I ate it there then went back to the city and ordered pizza from a chain.
I ordered a combination pizza full of toppings this time.
- With meat? - Yeah, with lots of meat.
Pizza with many toppings, something that doesn't taste like Italy at all.
How about you, Min-sang? Anything from overseas?
I've been to China and Japan.
What was memorable from Japan was lunch boxes from convenience stores.
It was a new world for me, I couldn't believe how awesome it was.
I could eat one everyday!
And in China, we went to a restaurant as a group.
They had a round table that spins.
They brought out rice in the middle of the table, and it was huge!
I was so happy when I saw that.
I took a picture with it.
(I want to eat it too)
The representatives here know much about Korean food.
But how would you explain the charming points of our food?
I think the most important thing in eating Korean food well is...
A scoop of rice and a little bit of side dish and seasoning on top.
It's that simple but memorable taste in your mouth.
I think enjoying that harmony in taste is the best way to taste Korean food.
I think that's an important part.
White rice with seasoning.
How about you, Yoon Min-sang?
I think the spicy taste of Korean food is very important.
Other countries eat spicy food too, but I recommend the Korean spicy taste.
I especially recommend spicy food using Cheongyang chili peppers.
It's very addicting.
It makes my mouth watery when I talk about food.
Especially talking about spicy food.
(I'm sweating already...)
Let's hear today's topic.
Let's begin the main discussion for Episode 162.
What's our topic, Min-sang and Joon-hyun?
We've been eating so much and we just had a thought, and brought it as our topic.
I'm worried that there might not be any food left in the future at this rate.
Am I abnormal for wondering this?
I can see why you're here today.
I can see why they're worried.
Didn't you do a skit on that before?
- I debuted with it. - Yes, it was really funny!
"Research on the skinny people."
It's like a Bible to us, the fat comedians.
Anything you remember from it?
The concept of the skit is to study on the skinny people.
The background is set in the future, in the year 2222.
The earth is now occupied by fat people only.
We need to study the skinny people in the past so we don't become extinct
like they did.
First fact...
The skinny people in the past...
Would ran 100 meters...
All of 100 meters!
(So funny!)
How was that possible?
(What a great idea!)
(Very famous in its time)
In the age of the skinny people in the past...
They often skipped breakfast if they're busy in the morning.
So they made instant rice so they can eat it fast in the morning.
They called it "Het-ban."
But the problem is...
Why did they make it so small, only one scoop's worth at a time?
We'd have to open up 40 of them for breakfast, busy in the morning!
How would that conserve any time?
(The skinny people in the past used to pack one scoop of rice at a time!)
I saw smaller sized instant rice, they make them.
They're thinner than the regular ones.
I picked one up by accident, and I saw it at home.
"What is this?"
"What the heck is this?"
It says "small size" in such a small print!
This of it as dessert.
He's the king of pigs!
I was really shocked.
Let's take a look.
Will there be no food in the future?
According to UN Economic and Social Council,
the earth's population will grow to 9.7 billion by 2050.
It forecasts that people will face lack of food at that point.
Do you actually fear that, as you eat so well?
I saw a news story somewhere...
You know that big search engine company?
I read in the news that it tried to buy a company that manufactured food.
It shows how food will change in the future.
After reading that story, I realized how serious it was.
Of course, it's not because we're eating a lot, it's a joke.
You mean you're responsible for it?
We should change the topic.
"Is it because of us if there's no more food left on earth?"
We can say you did your part for it.
How about you, Joon-hyun?
If you think about, we used to say, "Maybe we'll have to buy water
in the future."
"No way!"
- We used to joke about that. - Yes, totally.
I do remember laughing at the thought of it.
But it's a really scary matter, we might starve to death.
I'll ask an even scarier question.
What if you can only eat one ingredient for the rest of your life?
(I don't want to think about it)
Just one ingredient.
I know it's a very painful question.
Min-sang's face looks like he's lost a country.
Not even one dish, but one ingredient?
Ingredient?
No seasoning?
(It's a very important matter to him)
Just one ingredient!
Wow, it makes no sense.
I pick pork.
It can be cooked in many different ways.
You can dry it, grill it,
steam it, many different ways.
I pick flour.
If you think about it, there isn't much to eat if you cut out flour.
Bread, noodles, pasta...
I can't eat any of those without flour, no pizza!
It's all flour.
You're going for carbs then.
Yes, I need carbs.
You don't need to eat meat?
(You're too cruel!)
It's a very painful thought.
It's making me very upset.
(A cruel and difficult question)
It is very hard.
We're here with two very welcoming and warm people today.
"Will there be any food left in the future?"
It'll be our main discussion topic today.
Worries about having enough food in the future have been growing.
So we'll talk about food in the future.
Let's first take a look at the most-produced food in each country.
China makes the most amount of flour and corn in the world.
What most people do not realize is that China only has about 10% of the world's
farmland.
But it needs to feed 22% of world's population.
It's a big pressure on China.
China also produces the most number of eggs in the world.
We eat a lot of eggs.
In my family too, we eat about 50 eggs a week between 3 people.
I heard it can prevent dementia if you eat 3 a day.
What an expert!
A doctor in nutrition.
Rice is the most-produced food in Pakistan.
But rice from Pakistan looks a little different than other regions'.
They're thinner and longer.
It's called Basmati Rice, and they're thin and long.
It's mostly produced in Pakistan and India.
Another thing that's produced a lot in Pakistan is
water buffalo milk.
Pakistan has the most number of water buffaloes.
About 97% of all water buffaloes are raised in China, India, and Pakistan.
Water buffalo milk has about 40% more protein than other kinds of milk.
You can make cheese out of it, as well as butter and lassi.
It's used a lot.
I tried butter made out of water buffalo milk.
It's really good! It's different.
Surprisingly, Mexico produces a lot of strawberries.
It's the third-biggest producer of strawberries in the world.
But what is sad is that the strawberry farmers don't make a lot of money
though they produce so much.
They make about 3 dollars per one ton of strawberries.
- For a ton of strawberries? - Yes.
The middle man must take most of it.
Mexico is also known for corn.
It's Mexico's soul food.
Sinaloa and Jalisco states are the biggest producers of corn.
They make about 100 million dollars a year from corn.
I think the United States produces more corn.
About half of all corn are produced in the US.
It's the greatest producer of corn.
There's a region known for producing corn, we call it "the corn belt."
It's about the size of Japan.
Based on the map, you can see that the people from the corn belt
voted for the corn president.
(Corn hairstyle)
(Corn producers voted for the corn hairstyle president?)
(The truth will never be told)
Coca cola used to be made out of cane sugar.
Is it made out of corn syrup now since there's so much corn?
Yes, cola, chips, and other types of snacks all use corn syrup.
That's where the sweetness comes from?
Canada is the biggest producer of farm products.
What Canada produces the most are
flax seed, canola oil, wheat, and maple syrup.
Italy produces a lot of tasty stuff.
There are many things that Italy produces the most in the world, too.
We're the biggest producer of grapes and wine.
As well as peaches, kiwis, and truffles.
Well, if it weren't for China, we would've been number one.
We're number two in the world for hazelnut and olives.
Number three for almonds,
and within the top five for tomatoes, cherries, and apples.
Fruits are so cheap in Italy.
Is it because of the climate?
France is known as the wheat barn of Europe.
It produces and exports the most amount of wheat in the EU.
Swiss produces a lot of potatoes.
Because it's so mountainous, the quality of soil isn't so great.
The government helps its farmers a lot because of it.
For potatoes, for instance, Swiss doesn't really import from other countries.
Because it's got so many potatoes.
Majority of the potatoes eaten in Swiss are from Swiss.
Greater burdock is produced a lot in Japan.
It's eaten in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.
But it's the most popular in Japan.
Do you know what greater burdock is?
Do you have a picture?
It's usually in a gimbap.
The foreigners understand what it is from gimbap.
(I've seen that before!)
It's very nutritious.
It's used in variety of foods like snacks, tea, and in cooking.
It's very tasty.
What is the most produced food in Korea?
Isn't it rice?
Within Korea.
I heard production is going up but people don't buy it as much.
From Korea, I think...
Seaweed?
- Foreigners love it too. - Yes, they really do.
Sam Okyere was a Wando seaweed publicity ambassador.
I heard a story that a Korean student took seaweed to the United States.
Someone asked what it was, so he gave seaweed and plain white rice
to that person.
The American really loved it!
I eat it like snack.
They eat seaweed in Japan too but the Korean seaweed has more salt.
I think that's why it's tastier.
They don't eat it like that in Japan?
It's a little different.
Seaweed is so addictive.
I'm sure people prefer different foods in various countries.
What is the most consumed food in each of the countries?
What do they like?
People love seafood in Japan, as it's known for it.
The most consumed is tuna.
We eat a lot of tuna in Japan.
Don't they catch too much tuna though?
Yes, they caught too much tuna that it's almost extinct.
It's called the Pacific blue fin tuna.
There's a global limit to how much of this fish you can catch.
But it went over that limit this year.
It's been an issue because of it.
We also eat a lot of eels.
Just like how people in Korea eat chicken soup when it's hot,
Japan's got "eel day."
We eat a lot of eels.
There's a type called "the Japanese eel," and it's also endangered at this point.
We may not be able to eat it in the future if we continue at this rate.
The French consume a lot of bread, wine, and cheese.
And cheese...
It makes you smack your lips, huh.
The French are the biggest consumers of cheese in the world.
It's our tradition to eat cheese after a meal, before dessert.
What kind of cheese do you normally eat?
Variety of them.
Camembert, brie, beufort or maroilles...
A lot of varieties.
It's cheap
and it has a lot of uses.
You can put it in pasta, sandwiches...
Make fondues or raclette...
But...
We have baby cheese because
my kid is only 8 months old.
And it's delicious!
Save that for your baby!
I bought it with my money!
(That's why I bought a lot.)
I bought it.
I ate baby cheese with whiskey
it was so good.
What kind of a father eats baby cheese
with whiskey!
It was delicious!
You should try it.
(Recommends baby cheese )
(to a French person.)
We eat pasta, olive oil and wine the most.
We eat a lot of cheese as well.
That's why we don't eat a lot of meat.
We eat cheese instead of meat.
I thought we drank a lot of coffee too.
But we actually didn't.
North Europeans drink coffee the most.
I think it's because we only drink
espressos.
Germany drinks a lot too.
I see.
The food we eat the most in the world
is a bit odd.
It's honey.
Germans eat 1.1kg of honey per year
per person.
1 litre?
What do you eat it with?
With bread every morning.
We use it as jam.
During winter,
we mix it with wine.
Is it meat in Canada?
We eat wheat and meat the most.
But as more people are conscious
about their health,
more people look for white meat
instead over red meat.
Chickens are getting increasingly popular.
We eat a lot of meat too.
I bet we eat more than Canada.
Sausages?
(Germany is famous for variety)
(of meat dishes.)
But Canada and Germany have no chance
against America.
We love meat.
Americans eat more than 90kg of meat
per year.
Min-sang should try to beat that.
Korea needs to eat more!
What's going on?
We need to work harder!
We eat meat the most in the world.
It's us and Australia.
(America won 4 times. Australia won twice.)
(Feels competitive.)
The average of how much a person
consumes meat in a year is 34kg.
But we eat almost 3 times as much.
I don't know if Koreans feel this too but..
In America, if there's no meat on a table,
we don't feel like we ate.
Rice is like that for us.
Kimchi stew is delicious.
But if that's the only thing I ate,
even if I'm really full,
it doesn't feel like that I ate.
I'm like that too.
Are you American?
Maybe it's because I'm from Dongducheon!
(Where the American military base is.)
I need meat every time I eat.
See?
For me, even if I eat 2 or 3 steaks,
I have to go home and eat rice.
If you only eat meat?
(He feels empty without rice.)
So I understand how you feel.
If we compete with pork,
China can't lose.
According to the study in 2014,
China consumes 52%
of the whole world's pork consumptions.
China can win everything if they want to.
Try a new menu.
I changed my mind.
The topic changed.
I'm worried about food disappearing
because people eat so much.
So I should eat first.
I'm gonna lose without doing anything!
(Act first before meat disappears?)
What's different about our country
is that we consume a lot of water.
We can't drink tap water.
So we have to buy a lot of water.
Mexico buys water the most in the world.
This is what we think...
If we need to buy it anyways,
let's just buy cola.
Exactly.
(It tastes better.)
Might as well buy something better.
That's why we're world's champion
in cola consumptions.
We drink so much.
(3 litre cola, fitting for champions.)
Why are you getting competitive again?
I'm starting to like Mexico!
The world is a big place.
I can eat meat in America
then go to Mexico to drink cola.
But it's a problem.
One Mexican person drinks 163 litres
per year.
(450ml per day?)
Do you shower in cola?
It's not that bad.
Our obesity rate is just as high as
America.
According to a study in 2014
by Bloomberg and Euromonitor International,
the country that consumes most noodles
except pasta
was...
Korea.
Ramen?
Ramen, cold noodles...
(A lot of variety of noodles.)
(Consumers 9.7kg in 1 year per capita.)
I know you did this a lot on TV
but how do you eat noodles?
Look at this.
Trying...
Not to cut noodles in the middle
is important.
No matter what it takes!
You can't use scissors for cold noodles?
That feels like my finger is getting cut...
It's so weird.
Why!
If you cut noodles into pieces,
you can see where they were cut!
Is that cruel?
It's weird and cruel.
I'm one of those people who think
food is art.
I think eating noodles
is a form of art too.
I really mean it.
It's delicious and pretty.
And when it touches your lips,
it feels great.
Even the noise it makes
when you slurp it in!
When you use chopsticks to eat more noodles
because you're out of breath,
it goes in by itself.
He almost cried.
We need to respect noodles.
(Enlightened.)
How about you, Min-sang?
I know how to make delicious ramen.
Ramen is mankind's best invention ever.
Whoever invented it deserves a Nobel prize.
I know!
How do you cook it?
First, boil water with the powder.
Add noodles at the end.
What's important here is that
you need tongs.
Then you lift the noodles and put it down,
over and over.
Cold air will make the noodles firmer.
When you think it's cooked,
turn off the stove
What if you do this?
Nothing I can do about that.
That's how nature works.
It's like testing yourself!
(Hold back! Hold back!)
(Trying to defy laws of nature.)
It's a training!
I need to listen to some sermons.
(Starts to meditate.)
(Making ramen takes a lot of patience.)
I have another question...
How many ramens do you eat at once?
I never eat more than one.
Why?
I eat rice with 1 ramen.
I tried eating 2 or 3 before.
But I got tired of that flour smell.
It'll make me want to eat ramen less
next time.
So it's like...
Falling in love at first sight.
If things move too quickly,
it eventually flames out.
So you're constantly flirting!
That's the best part in dating!
I play hard to get with ramen.
Then it'll last forever!
It will!
And that's what I want too.
What if ramen gets sick of you?
But she's always there for me.
She's always there in my cupboard.
(I miss her.)
With population increase and climate change
world's food production has decreased.
What are the issues in your country
with food crisis?
Italy has the most variety of grapes.
We have over 2,000.
That's why we have variety of wines.
But some people predict that
the climate change will lead
to some wine to be unable to produce.
Climate is very important in wine.
But when it changes,
they have to move north to make wine.
But when you movie,
it changes everything.
That's why some wines won't be produced
any longer.
(Areas able to make wine in 2050.)
(Red: Not possible. Blue: Possible.)
Some people say Britain will be able to
make good wines in the future.
Due to climate change?
Same thing as there's no more cods
in the East Sea.
Potatoes in Japan are in trouble.
Most of our potatoes are grown
in Hokkaido.
But a typhoon caused a huge damage...
We can't make potato chips anymore.
So a company that made potato chips
stopped the production
of 18 items of 14 types of chips.
(No way.)
But potato chips are our national snack.
We have to eat it.
A lot of people buy them on internet...
But chips that cost a few dollars
per bag,
is now $50 for 2 bags.
It's a problem.
I need to eat more before it disappears.
The city of Karachi in Pakistan
has seen a large increase
in its population.
It caused a food crisis.
Karachi had the largest population increase
over the last 10 years in the world.
Even though Pakistan
is an agricultural country,
because we lack in technology,
we're not self-sufficient.
We lack enough food for people.
Like I said, farmers in Mexico
can't earn a lot of money.
So the farmers came out to the streets
and went on a strike.
57% of food in Mexico
is produced in Mexico.
And the rest, 43%, is imported.
(Worried about having to import too much.)
Chinese people love to eat lambs.
(Me too.)
An area called Inner Mongolia
is known for delicious lambs.
People raised a lot of sheep there.
Because they feed on grass,
a lot of the area turned to a desert.
Because there is no grass now,
it lead to desert storms.
(And caused a lot of damage.)
A lot of options for future food
are now being researched.
What future food
are getting attentions in your country?
Spirulina.
It looks like seaweed.
But it's actually bacteria.
Bacteria.
It has a lot of protein.
The UN picked it
as the future's super food.
That's cool.
Just one bite has enough protein
as a whole steak!
(65% of it is protein.)
Pakistan is starting to grow ostriches
instead of cows and sheep.
Ostriches can adapt in most weathers.
They also have a lot of uses.
I think that's why ostriches
can be our future food.
Should I raise some too?
I heard an ostrich egg is as big as
40 eggs.
It is.
Fried ostrich egg looks incredible.
I tried ostrich meat before.
How is it?
I ate it on a TV show.
It's just like beef.
This beef.
(Its taste is very similar to beef.)
If the world really lacks on food
in the future,
then I heard we'll have to eat powder food.
There was a study that said
future food of Mexico will be powder food.
Powder?
That sounds terrible...
Marinated beef flavored shake...
Tangsuyook powder.
There's an interesting shake in America.
It's from a Sci-Fi movie from the 70s
called Soylent Green.
In this movie,
a company called Soylent Green
made a shake in the future
because there was nothing to eat.
But few years ago...
A company called Soylent Green
was really created.
They really make shakes
that has enough nutrients to be a meal.
It's really popular.
Some people drink this for a meal.
So it's a substitute for food.
But you can only buy that in America
and Canada.
Germany has a shake that's similar.
But what's different is that
it doesn't contain artificial ingredients.
It's organic and healthy.
There are a lot of articles about
insects being our future food.
7 types of insects
were certified as consumable by humans.
It has higher protein contents than meat.
It also has a lot of nutrients such as
amino acids.
Insects are being heralded as future food.
And...
It's delicious.
Do any of your countries eat insects?
Switzerland is focused on insects
as our future food because...
It's already authorized by our government.
If you go to supermarkets,
you can buy hamburgers and meatballs
made from insects.
They made it like that
so it doesn't look like insects.
I heard it tastes like chicken.
(Convinced.)
A lot of our food like, pasta or pizza
use flour.
These days...
Powder made from crickets
is really popular.
Because...
What's good about is that
when crickets are raised,
they're fed with food waste.
So it's really environmental friendly.
After crickets are made into powder,
people don't recognize
that it was used to make food.
Another thing that's popular
is scorpion powder.
Scorpions...
Are used to make chocolates and honey.
Mexicans don't necessarily eat food
made from insects.
We eat insects.
What?
We eat fried grasshoppers.
Us too.
It looks like an actual cricket.
We eat it as snacks.
(A very popular snack in Mexico.)
Simlin will be able to understand.
I ate it a lot when I was a kid.
Don't we eat it too?
Even in movie theaters,
some people eat grasshoppers
instead of popcorn.
Does it come in a set?
We think of it as snacks.
When I was a kid, I played with them a lot.
(Can't eat his childhood friend...)
That's why you can't eat it?
It's true.
Japan made soy sauce with grasshoppers.
Oh, it does have a lot of protein.
It becomes a base for soy sauce.
And we're trying to make soy sauce
with silkworms.
We eat insects too.
There are some people
who eat ant fried rice.
(Mumbling.)
(This is it.)
(Depends on people's tastes.)
(Professional eater pays his respect too.)
(Oh my god.)
How can you tell if ants were put in
on purpose or some ants just fell in?
Isn't it good if ants fell in?
What?
That was so lucky!
It looks like rice with fish eggs.
It must be nutritious though...
And there's more!
Instead of raw fish on sushi...
Insects can be used.
(Insect sushi.)
Welcome!
(Traditional dish meets future food.)
Cicadas are really popular.
Some people make a club to go to parks
to catch cicadas so they can fry them
and eat them on the spot.
Is that it?
Amazing.
It's delicious.
Is it?
Yup!
But they have wings...
You take them off.
You don't eat wings?
I feel like when you eat cicadas,
it'll go...
Inside your mouth.
(Good to both tongue and the ears.)
(But it's delicious?)
It's delicious.
Historically, there are records that show
China has been eating insects
for more than 3,000 years.
Back then, dishes made with cicadas or ants
were for the royals and nobles.
Common people couldn't eat them.
Even now in south China,
there's an insect eating competitions.
The winner ate 1.23kg of insects
in 5 minutes.
Eating insects is very common in China.
(I see.)
Maybe edible insecticides should be made
so you can kill insects...
And eat it on the spot.
It should be flavored too!
Like a strawberry flavored one!
Let's say you ate an insect there.
It'll be delicious!
(He's happy just thinking about it.)
Americans didn't eat insects before.
But we're just starting to.
We eat livestock instead of insects
primarily.
When livestock are raised,
they create a lot of greenhouse gases.
So people who are environment conscious,
started to think consuming insects
was a good idea.
So edible insects farms were created.
But it's actually pretty popular.
The yearly sales...
Grew by 200%.
(Really?)
Their most popular item
is cricket chips.
In Snowpiercer by Bong Jun-go,
there's a protein bar made from roaches.
An insect farm in Ontario makes
something similar.
They're raising 900 million insects
to make protein powders to sell them.
Did you try it?
Nope.
I don't think I can.
Maybe we have to in the future.
Insects won't go extinct either.
(It's becoming a reality.)
Would you guys eat insects?
If it doesn't look like insects...
Just like in Snowpiercer,
if it's made into protein bars,
it'll be popular if it's delicious as well.
If I have no choice...
I don't know who'll make it
but just make it delicious.
I have a feeling that crickets
will go well with soy sauce based sauce.
(He's already thinking about sauces.)
It'll get rid of crickets' smell too.
If it's delicious,
I'll eat it.
Technically speaking, everything we eat
could be gross if we didn't
eat them from the beginning.
It depends on how you think.
Joon-hyun had a good idea.
He thought naming insect products
is important to reduce people's bias.
What did you have in mind?
Maybe we shouldn't call cockroaches
as cockroaches.
(Then what?)
What would you call it?
Sweet chestnut?
Sweet chestnut!
They have similar colors.
(Sounds delicious already.)
Pepper paste dragonfly.
(Sounds sweet and spicy.)
How about bean paste dragonfly?
This might only apply to Korea but...
English makes food sound more delicious.
How?
Honey potato chip in Korean
doesn't sound appetizing.
But honey butter chip in English does.
So with cockroaches...
How about tire worms?
Wouldn't Mark hate it more?
What's cockroaches in English?
Cockroaches.
But...
Doesn't that sound like a spicy food?
Cockroaches sound fine to us!
It sounds crunchy.
When Mark told us about cricket chips
made by that farm,
I thought it sounded delicious.
(Not really...)
I have a good idea.
Every country should use another language
to name insects.
(Weirdly convincing.)
None of us would understand it.
GMO is one of the options
to solve future food crisis.
GMO is editing a certain organism's DNA
with another organism's DNA
to get the best from both of them.
It increases productions.
But some people are worried about safety
because DNAs were altered.
Why don't we find out
about each country's GMO products?
China has hybrid rice.
In Chinese, it's...
(Genetically enhanced rice.)
It's a new type of rice
made from altering the DNA.
We don't have to worry about rice anymore
because of this.
I think it's a good thing.
Does rice get bigger?
It's normal.
You won't know the difference.
Instead of getting bigger,
it helps with damages from bugs
or adapting to certain weathers.
So it increases productions.
We produce a lot of rice too.
A lot of Japanese people have hay fever.
So Japan is developing rice
that can prevent people from hay fever.
The whole country is paying attention.
And in Japan, GMOs have to indicate
that they're GMOs.
But if a product has less than 5%
of the entire ingredients used,
it doesn't have to be marked.
And more importantly,
if it's less than 5%,
this product can say
this product isn't a GMO product.
Because that could confuse the consumers,
our government is talking about
changing the law.
Canada does a lot of testings with GMOs.
University of Manitoba
made an entirely new oil
by using grape seeds.
It's known as the canola oil.
Can comes from Canada.
Ola comes from oil.
Out of all oils, it has the least amount
of saturated fat.
Can from canola oil came from Canada?
Yes.
Canola wasn't a plant?
(Awesome.)
New GMO products get released in America
every year
and it's an important matter.
Recently, something called Blomatoes
was released.
It's...
You know blueberries?
Blueberries have a lot of antioxidants
and effective in preventing aging.
But it's expensive.
So blueberry's DNA
was inserted to tomatoes
so people can afford them more easily.
That's how the Blomatoes were born.
But there was a controversy recently.
We made artificial meat.
We made meat artificially...
With DNA from chickens and ducks,
it's literally grown in a lab.
It was actually released.
It's called incubated meat in Korea.
It's really expensive.
It doesn't come from animals.
It's made in a lab.
It actually works.
But I'm not sure if I'd eat it.
GMO caused a huge controversy in Mexico.
GMO products in Mexico
doesn't state that they are.
So there's no way for consumers to know
if they're eating GMO products or not.
Tortilla is a staple for Mexican food.
Most them are GMO products
but people don't know that.
So the Greenpeace...
Because our government wasn't
doing anything,
so the Greenpeace
made a list of GMO products.
It shows which products are GMO or not.
In France...
Since 1999,
people who are against GMO products
got together
to destroy field that raise
GMO vegetables.
Destroying fields?
They call themselves Des faucheurs.
(Their violent ways caused controversies.)
It means people with sickles.
There's a famous politician
in that group too.
He even went to prison because of it.
Their movement is illegal at times.
(Some people are vehemently against GMO.)
Switzerland held a national vote
and producing GMO products
became illegal.
Some areas are allowed to experiment
on them.
GMO can only be raised on the land
that's within 300 meters of the lab
that has no vegetation
just in case GMO can affect them.
DNA is like a map.
No one knows what will happen to our bodies
if something new comes in.
That's what I'm scared of.
What do you guys think about GMO?
I think...
It's a good thing because...
Remember how we just talked about insects?
We can't survive on insects alone.
It's for our survival.
But one thing that's wrong is...
Scientists should focus
on making things bigger.
But monkey bananas...
Mini carrots.
(Miniature version of vegetation)
(by altering the DNA.)
What's the point?
The purpose is wrong?
They have the right idea
but their goal is wrong.
They should make super carrots?
Exactly!
We're facing a food crisis!
Gorilla bananas is better?
Exactly!
I like that idea!
Why did people ever make mini tomatoes?
It should be as big as the Big Ben!
(A professional eater's opinion)
(on GMO's future.)
That way we don't have to stop eating!
(Good idea!)
You agree with the idea
but the execution is wrong?
How about Joon-hyun?
I think studying GMO shouldn't stop.
It should continue.
Possible problems should be studied too.
It's required for the future.
We don't know what will happen,
so research should continue.
As food crisis is becoming more prominent,
a food research center in Italy published
an index of how sustainable
countries are with their food production.
In 2006, 25 countries were studied.
1st place...
Was France...
With the score of 67.53.
It means France can sustain itself
for a long time.
A new law passed in France recently.
If supermarkets can't sell
some food,
they can't throw them away.
Who eats them?
They have to donate it
to a local food bank.
We were the first one to do it.
That's a good idea.
Who's 2nd place?
Japan.
Canada is 3rd.
How did you guys get 2nd and 3rd place?
We're working on vegetables factory.
It's literally a factory
that produces vegetables.
It uses artificial lights
to control its temperature
to raise vegetables.
Bad weather such as typhoon
or drought won't affect
its production.
A lot of companies are investing in it.
Aquaponics is popular in France too.
(What's that?)
It's a method of growing vegetables
by using fish.
Plants need nutrients to grow.
So fish make the water dirty
with its excretions
and that water is given to plants.
But bacteria is really important.
Bacteria filter the water.
(Fish's excretion,)
(water filtered by bacteria,)
(give nutrients to plants)
(then the water goes back to fish.)
We have something similar.
Food wastes are collected
and massive amounts of worms are put in.
Then food waste can be used
as fertilizers to grow plants.
(Worms are used to reduce food wastes.)
Even when the plants grow,
because worms are still alive,
some people use them for fishing.
But worms worked so hard!
Only few of the worms are used.
Germany was 4th.
Britain was 5th.
And Italy was 6th.
Germany thinks agriculture
is really important.
Farmers need certificates too.
And we use a lot of bio gas
for power plants.
(5% of electricity in Germany)
(is made from bio gas.)
Italy passed a law last year
that makes donating leftover food
from food companies,
supermarkets and restaurants.
Donating procedures were simplified.
It was really complicated before.
But now leftovers can be reused.
I think it's a good idea.
Normally, if we have leftovers
after eating at a restaurant,
we don't take it back with us.
So we started calling doggy boxes
as family bags.
(Changed its name to encourage people)
(to take leftovers with them.)
Korea...
Is 7th.
Really?
(Really?)
America is 11th.
China is 13th.
Mexico is 15th.
America is working hard
to reduce food waste as well.
One of the reasons why we have
so much leftovers
is because supermarkets throw
ugly fruits and vegetables away
without selling them.
(What a waste.)
To stop that,
people have started a movement
to prevent that from happening.
It's called an Ugly Produce Movement.
They requested supermarkets to sell them
at a lower price instead of
of throwing them out.
That's how the movement started.
(Completely understands.)
This campaign started in France first.
It's called, Buy Me!
It was a really popular campaign,
so other countries followed suit.
China is buying big seed companies
and big pesticides companies.
It's for being able to sustain
1.4 billion Chinese people.
37% of all food produced in Mexico
ends up going to the trash can.
That's so much!
That's why our government...
Passed a law to make hunger disappear
by 2030.
Leftover food from restaurants are donated
to people who need help.
These two are trying really hard
to solve the food crisis too.
I couldn't stand making leftover food
ever since I was a kid.
If I have leftover side dishes,
I order more rice.
And if I have leftover rice,
then I order side dishes...
It's an endless cycle.
(Totally understands.)
It's a virtuous cycle.
I don't know where my food waste bin is.
Did you get rid of it?
I don't have a bin, and I don't know
where I go to throw it out.
He's never done it before.
Not even during recycling?
Never.
It's not a problem, I can eat everything.
I do get leftover once in awhile
because I'm a human too.
If that happens, I leave it
because I'll eat it again a bit later.
I'm so full!
Do I still have leftovers?
(Professional eater.)
We don't need refrigerators either.
I'll eat it immediately.
(Amazing.)
Yoo Min-sang and Kim Joon-hyun's agenda
for our 162nd meeting.
I'm worried about food disappearing
in the future because I eat so much.
Our conclusion...
Is to reduce food waste first
before worrying about the future.
Min-sang has been fighting against leftover
for 39 years.
This is his imitation of food noises.
Squeezing ketchup.
When there isn't much left.
(Hilarious.)
Shake it.
(National treasure.)
This is a noise
the water fountain makes
when you're getting water from it.
This is amazing.
In Korean...
It's...
A girl group.
It sounds like girl group.
(Expert noise maker.)
(Huge fan.)
(Proud.)
(Thank you Min-sang.)
What did you guys think about today?
I learn something new
every time when I come here.
It was fun.
I look forward to learning
about how people all over the world thinks.
Thanks for a great time.
(Thank you.)
I want to say something...
You guys should have some tea and snacks
during filming.
(I give up.)
This water bottle is all I got.
This isn't right.
Maybe some cola...
(He's unbelievable.)
That's it for today's Non Summit Meeting.
Until we all become normal.
This is to show that no one should leave
leftovers as if it's their last meal.
This is to show that no one should leave
leftovers as if it's their last meal.
As if it's your last.
As if it's your last meal.
Meeting adjourned!
He's a writer who writes
helpful things to learn.
Mr. Kim Young-ha.
Reading books is just like
the Non Summit Meeting.
You learn about the worlds you didn't know.
(The world of literature.)
I have a question...
Me too.
(Popular.)
(Bragging about their literature!)
(Of course it's China!)
It's sold in over 110 countries!
Britain has too many.
C.S Lewis.
Shakespeare.
Lord of the Rings.
(Which country received the most)
(Nobel prize in Literature?)
Hermann Hesse.
I'm sorry but, he's German.
Germany has over 10 Nobel Prize winners.
If you have 10, give us 1...
Borders don't matter in literature.
I agree with him.
(Aurelien agrees...?)
But France has 15.
(Almost fooled.)
Will books disappear?
Paper books are popular again
and e-books are not.
(But technology will solve it.)
(Even if it does, people won't change.)
Owning an e-book doesn't make me feel
like I own a book.
I do and I use a Kindle.
(Debate is heating up again...)
(Young-ha tries to settle things down.)
A book is a perfect invention.
Electricity isn't needed.
You don't need to charge it.
If an ice age comes again
and the world gets cold...
You can burn it.
You can't burn e-books!
Subtitles by OnDemandKorea