Kimchi Club is an Australian food brand, creating healthy and delicious Korean food with premium Australian ingredients. We embrace the best of Korean traditional methods and flavours, adapting them for Australian palettes and produce.
Our products are for people who delight in food culture and in Korean culture. For people who care about what they eat; for the young and young at heart.
From humble beginnings, today you can buy our kimchi, condiments and now our authentic Korean sauces, in over 150 gourmet stores and independent supermarkets right across Australia.
Kimchi Club is 100% South Australian made and owned.
Minka Park
Our founder
When Minka Park moved from Seoul to Adelaide in 2000, she brought with her a deep love for Korean food—especially kimchi. Growing up, she cherished helping her mother and aunties prepare family meals and had fond memories of Kim-jang (김장철), the annual tradition of making and sharing kimchi with neighbours.
Years later, while living in Australia, Minka struggled to find high-quality kimchi for her family. So, she started making it herself, using the best local ingredients. When she shared her homemade kimchi with friends, they kept asking for more, and she realised there was a real demand for authentic, handcrafted Korean food.
At the same time, Minka met other Korean migrant women who, like her, had made Australia their home and were looking for meaningful work opportunities. Inspired by both her love for Korean food and a desire to support these women, she founded Kimchi Club in 2018 as a social enterprise.
Today, Kimchi Club is more than just a food brand—it’s a community of Korean women in Australia, working together to share our culture while creating employment and connection. Using premium local produce, we make traditional, probiotic-rich kimchi and Korean dishes with the same care and passion as we would for our own families.
As a social enterprise, our mission is not only to bring the best of Korean food to Australian tables but also to empower and uplift migrant women through meaningful work and a shared sense of belonging.
Kimchi Club is a wholly migrant female owned business. We’re grateful for the opportunities we’ve received and take seriously our responsibility to lift up others. Our selection as a Coralus (formerly SheEO) is both a validation of our impact focus and an enabler for us to scale our impact significantly.
We are committed to supporting measurable, positive change through our focus on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals #2 and #8.
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
As we scale our business we’re focused on making our nutritious and beneficial plant-based products as affordable as possible, in order to make them available to a wide and diverse audience. At the same time we strive to educate the community on the positive health impacts of a probiotic and prebiotic rich diet.
As well as focusing on nutrition, we strive to support local, sustainable agriculture, through sourcing our ingredients from independent local organic producers and suppliers wherever possible.
Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Providing decent work for migrant women was a key motivation in the founding of Kimchi Club. In 2021 we provided over 2,000 hours of safe and empowering work for migrant women who may otherwise struggle to find employment opportunities due to language barrier, lack of networks and confidence. As we grow we will be able to help more migrant and local women in need.