This has been a very challenging  year for the entire world,

and needless to say really it's been  very challenging for me and Simon. 

We've gone through some  incredibly difficult changes 

and we're trying our best to deal  with these changes in our lives. 

I'm truly sorry that these  changes and difficulties 

have spilled out onto our Youtube channel. This channel and the community means a lot to me, 

they mean a ton to me, and so I would like to tell you  

a couple of things that haven't changed. I'm still extremely passionate about food; 

I love cooking, I love filming I love editing. 

I love being creative. I mean, I've always loved making videos. 

During this year I've tried to keep the spirit of  eat your kimchi going by posting several videos. 

Obviously with Coldemort (Covid) it made it quite difficult to do  

any exploring in Canada and around in Toronto 

and also I was coping with a lot of crippling depression. 

I started a new Youtube channel and I started putting content slowly, 

but I really wanted to balance out the videos for the OG EYK audience, 

as well as new videos for people who  might be following me on my new channel. 

My new channel is called King Kogi. It's repping my travel pig over here 

– this is Kogi – “wee wee wee" – Kogi has been an excellent support for me 

so when I'm sleeping he actually supports my joints from falling out of socket. 

He is a really good size for that; and also while I was travelling, 

I actually drew a lot of my designs and made music, 

edited videos while travelling, off of his back. Literally, I put him down, sorry buddy, 

put stuff on top and edited on top of him. Buddy, you're the real GOAT. 

“Wee wee wee?” ... No GOAT, is like a new millennial slang… 

it's probably now new anymore… you're not literally a goat… 

“wee wee"… it's too much to explain. 

Currently, if you check out my new channel you are going to see a lot music focused videos 

and that's because I spent the year learning more about music production. 

I used to make all the music for EatYourKimchi – the Music Monday, the Parodies, the theme songs, 

and I used it all on Garage Band but now I've been working hard to figure out 

better how to make music – a little bit better on how to make music – 

now I'm using Abelton Live and learning how to mix down and master my own track. 

It's been a really wonderful place for me to put my energy and I'm also learning 

how to play the piano again and the channel is going  

to have a big change soon. And that's because I'm moving back to Japan; 

for how long I don't know yet , but that means that I'll  

be putting up a lot more videos about cooking and the food and adventures 

and who the heck knows what else. If you would like to join  

me on this new life adventure, please feel free to subscribe to 

KINGKOGI Youtube channel It's the same thing for Instagram. 

Join me, Captain Martina, and the crew mates as we sale off on a new adventure  

on KingKogi's airship, searching for good vibes and good food, 

we'll explore strange new worlds… seek out new life… 

and new civilizations… we'll boldly will go where no one has gone before… 

wait a second...Jean-Luc Picard, you rascal. Where are my Next Gen fans? 

Before we board King Kogi's Airship I would like to leave you with  

this little Ode to Canada with it's changing seasons. 

This was the first time I  was back in Canada since 2007 

to experience the whole CHANGING SEASONS, and it was pretty epic, to be honest. 

The music is original music, made by me; it's a short song because I'm still getting better 

at learning how to do this stuff. I hope you enjoy it. 

I will be still posting some stuff  on EatYourKimchi Studio still 

but most of my energy is going into King Kogi so I hope to see you there Space Cowboy. 

No wait that's from something else as well. See you in Japan!