Origin names of gochu, kimchi, and bibimbap

Background: Despite the long history of Korean foods, the truth and history behind them are either scaled down or distorted due to several scholars who happen to “know” hanja (漢字). A representative case is the distortion of the history of gochu, which inflicts serious distortion on foods that also use the very ingredient. As the distorted history of gochu is pushed forward to be true, t…