hi eatyourkimchi Community this is Martina here and as the title implies I'm here
to say goodbye to the Eat Your Kimchi YouTube page
I have opened up my own YouTube page King Kogi so I'm not saying goodbye from the internet forever
but I think the time has come that I need to address the eatyourkimchi YouTube channel Community
I did put up a community tab post explaining that I wouldn't be posting to the channel anymore but
I received a lot of messages afterwards I'm still asking me if I would post to eatyourkimchi I realize
like people do not check the community tab so I just thought I've got to bite the bullet and just
make a video and I think it's appropriate because we're going to be starting a new year soon 2023 is
coming up and I just want to wrap everything up before 2023 starts for a fresh new year so after
this video if you receive any notifications or alerts from the Eat Your Kimchi Channel I just
want to be clear that they will not be videos posted by me and the videos that are posted are
not videos that are on brand with the Eat Your Kimchi brand you might remember.
Simon and I do share the Eat Your Kimchi YouTube page as well as the Instagram page and you can't control what
people post up, the only thing you can control is, you know, your reactions to other people's behaviour
and so my reaction is that I need to just say goodbye to eat your kimch...i sorry guys
I need to I need to say goodbye Eatyourkimchii it's been
a really important part of my life I have a lot of really good memories here you know
if you guys don't know Simon and I have gotten a divorce and we started talking about
the process of getting a divorce, it was um June 2020. so it's been coming up to like, almost three years
now it's been like well over two years now that we've actually, you know, everything's done and
we've been divorced and everything. And obviously I knew that there'd be a transitional time period
because, you know, we shared everything and so if you've ever been through a breakup
it's quite hard if you've ever been through a divorce it's very hard and if you've ever been
through a divorce while on the internet while everyone can see and what's going on and you
have a community that you love that are like your family it's like hurting everyone so
it was really hard and I know it was hard for both of us I'm not
trying to say like it's just hard for me... it was hard for both of us
that being said I knew that there would be a transitional time period and what that means is we
are both sharing the space and I was hoping that we could remain on Eatyourkimchi brand with you
know messages about food and travel and you know maybe about animals and um things that were more
on the positive side and that it wouldn't get too you know gossipy or hurtful or anything or things
that were too you know personal that other people maybe didn't want to hear about in our community
and unfortunately you can't control other people's behaviors and so I felt like there were some
things posted to the channel That really off -brand and just you know they're there forever
they're making ad money forever it's quite um you know shocking and painful to see this kind of stuff I
was hoping that after a certain amount of time has gone by as we didn't quite know either of us
didn't know what we were doing this was our whole lives you know I eventually started my own YouTube
page and you know rebranding and with my lovely Pig King Kogi thanks buddy and I started my own
Instagram page Simon has started his own YouTube page he started his own Instagram page as well I
was hoping there would be a point where we would leave the joint accounts alone so Eatyourkimchi
can remain you know almost like an archive and eat your kimchi Instagram can remain an archive
I'm aware that we are both allowed to post things I've seen a lot of comments where people are like
well "Martina posted Simon should be allowed to post" and "if Simon post Martina should be allowed
to post" I agree with you we we are allowed to do that that's completely allowed I just think that
it's a little bit weird after a certain amount of time has passed by to continue to post things to
um an account that you shared with someone were are married to... I want you to imagine that if
you've ever been in a breakup before if you broke up with your girlfriend or boyfriend or you went
through a divorce if you shared an Instagram page or an account with them there would be a
time period where you may not really be sure what to do it's quite hard to start your own thing
because it's really like "wow this is me I'm on my own now" like this is it, you know it's quite... whoa
but once you've done that you know as time goes by you start to go okay this is not who
I am anymore I have a new life I have a new thing separate from what I was before so to
continue to post to a page that has so many you know memories um of so many different things I
find it really myself quite jarring I know that we are allowed to do this but I would like for the
Instagram and Eatyourkimchi page to just kind of remain an archive and not be talking about
um our new personal lives on that page I don't want to end this video with you guys feeling
um upset or sad I know that I was quite emotional at the beginning of this video because it is still
an emotional thing but I want to express um my love and my joy for the community and everything
that we've gone through together you know just such amazing memories of building Eatyourkimchi
studio and like the crowdfunding for that and having so many Fan Tours meeting so many of you
guys in person like getting hugs taking names like comments and meeting that person in com in person
and being like "Oh my God this is you!" so I I just really want to say I've appreciated you know all
that kind of experience over this time how many characters have we made and shared together you
know I want to be able to still come back to eat your kimchi sometime and look at these old you
know K-pop music Mondays and the characters and you know um all the places in Korea that might
have closed down that are still kind of archived in the Eatyourkimchi world, places in Seoul like I
heard that Hongdae looks totally different now you know and I have all this video footage that
we can all look back on that's you know Korea in a certain era and you know Bucheon has such a big
place in my heart, my students, you know sometimes I get messages from them still... if you're watching hi so
you know in Spudgy... so there's just so many really good happy memories, the Eatyourkimchi crew
you know when I just recently met with Ellwyn, a lot of us have lost touch but like
Ellwyn came to to Japan and we met up and you know there's just so many incredible moments
um having K-pop interviews and like "what!?" like just it's just so many things that happen so I I
have a lot of fun warm memories even though things didn't turn out the way that we might have all you
know hoped and expected it's okay I'm aware that I'm teary and crying because it's emotional but
I'm doing okay now and I'm on my own path and my own journey and I know what Simon is as well I'm
not even asking you to follow me over on King Kogi or anything I just wanted to say you know, thanks.
thanks for... I feel like going ... "thanks for all the fish" which is a quote from Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy but yeah thanks you guise you know it's a really good time it was a really good journey
and yeah well you know that's it thanks so much and I will see some of you on King Kogi
if you would like to continue this you know journey with me and I hope that you you know
if you want to follow Simon, follow Simon too, but I hope that this page can remain
a place that we can come back to at times and reminisce on a different time period
in the world, so that's it. I hope you have a pretty Merry Christmas I hope that
things are going okay for you, and I hope that 2023 brings new and hopefully good things for everybody
and and that's about it.
I have no idea how to end this kind of video but bye everybody... *whispers* "ooh you so nasty!"
---Much love, Martina ----