Eatyourkimchi
Eatyourkimchi (Eat Your Kimchi, also titled Simon and Martina from 2016–2020) is a YouTube video blog channel created by Canadian expatriates Simon Stawski and Martina Sazunic in 2008. The channel featured videos about their lives in South Korea, including food, cultural differences, and popular media. In 2012, they registered Eatyourkimchi as a company in South Korea and opened their own studio in Seoul, which remained operational until 2015. In 2016, Stawski and Sazunic moved to Tokyo, Japan and produced a video series on Japanese food and culture titled Eatyoursushi. Their channel was rebranded as Simon and Martina to reflect the change. In May 2018, the channel had 1.3 million subscribers. In 2021, the two had renamed their YouTube channel back to Eatyourkimchi and announced they had divorced, with Sazunic eventually leaving the channel in 2022. Background Simon Stawski and Martina Sazunic met in 2005 during a poetry class at the University of Toronto, and both earned a Bachelor's Degree in Education and Art. After marrying, the two moved to Bucheon, South Korea in 2008 to teach English abroad. At the time of their arrival, there had been threats of violence between North and South Korea. As a result, they uploaded