Seoul - South Korea's LG Electronics said on Tuesday that it had begun selling a new air conditioner equipped with a filter made out of kimchi that destroys the killer bird flu virus.
The new air conditioner filters the air through a chemical mix that includes an enzyme extracted from kimchi, which is reportedly capable of eliminating the H5N1 virus.
"It is too early to tally the sales figures yet but we believe the new air-con will sell very well," company spokesperson Jo Chang-Hyun told AFP.
Kimchi is a spicy fermented vegetable dish made with red peppers, radishes and a lot of garlic and ginger.
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| 'The dish has acquired a reputation as strong medicine' |
Koreans eat kimchi with almost every meal.
The dish has acquired a reputation as strong medicine and many South Koreans believe the country was spared infection by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003 because of kimchi.
Researchers at Seoul National University said last year that they fed an extract of kimchi to 13 chickens infected with the bird flu virus and that 11 of them recovered.
The claim was never scientifically proven. - Sapa-AFP
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