"kimchi pizza" news and stories

This is the first in a series about  pizza done with an ethnic twist in New York City, the de facto capital of straight-ahead pizza. Fuhgeddabout about whether you think my fair city's pizza is the "best." I know the answer to that one. These missives concern crosscultural pies, which I'm a little skeptical about. Nonetheless, I  like to keep an open mind and sometimes ignore the fact that I cut my teeth on home-made Calabrian square pies.

I first heard "kimchi" and "pizza" mentioned in the same sentence  on Chowhound. At the time, I was a Korean food dilettante. I gladly enjoyed gas-grilled Korean barbecue, but never imagined the splendid smoky bulgogi  that comes from a charcoal grill. Nevermind  paejun. I had little or no experience with this pancake that combines kimchi, seafood and green onion. Shapewise at least, paejun, is the closest Korean fare comes to pizza.