Some kimchi is quite good: like sauerkraut, but instead of salt and vinegar, horseradish and tomato-y sauce.
I like it in small doses.
I stayed at an apartment in Ayer Mass years ago. One night a reeking smell began to permeate the place. Called the manager thinking sewage problem. Turned out to be the Asian neighbors cooking some ungodly delicacy downstairs. Urp. LOL.
we have had this conversation before. My husband says to tell you that his mother made her own sauerkraut and canned it but he doesn't know what the Koreans treat the cabbage with before they put it in a crock and bury it in the ground but he swears that after a person eats it, the smell hangs in the air and that person must sweat it out though their pores. They hired a young Korean man to keep their quarters clean and they barred him from entering the barracks if he had eaten kimchi because the smell made them all sick. LOL