In 2016, when Nicole Yamanaka moved into her grandparents’ old house in Mountain View, she and her then-­fiancé, Byron, became the proud caretakers of two large Hachiya persimmon trees in the yard.

A beloved college professor of mine once poetically described to us how persimmons dried in the wind in her hometown in South Korea. She told us that residents would string up the fruits, and when ...

The hand-painted, weathered sign announcing Otow Orchard, located east of Sacramento in Granite Bay (Placer County), seems out of place amid the spreading ranchettes and Tuscan villas that have grown ...

Dried gotgam persimmons are a traditional snack made from dried persimmons. They are first peeled and hung in a sunny, airy place over a period of several weeks. When the persimmons are ready, the ...

After the autumn harvest, November is a time to brace for cold weather and settle in for the long winter. But that’s not the case in Sangju, North Gyeongsang. It is peak season for dried persimmon, ...

The making of dried persimmons, which is hailed as the most delicious dried fruit made in Da Lat city, Lam Dong province, requires a lot of time and sophisticated techniques. The making of dried ...

Dried persimmons prevent coughing and chronic bronchitis and contain a lot of carotene, meaning it increases your immune system. It also has anti-cancer functions and helps tighten your skin. The ...

Drying persimmons A resident inspects peeled persimmons hung together to dry at a farm in Sancheong, South Gyeongsang, southeastern South Korea, on Dec. 3, 2025. Dried persimmons, called "gotgam" in ...

Over the last couple of months, you may have noticed orange bulbs hanging from the rafters, kitchens, or bars of certain Bay Area restaurants. They’re not avant-garde Christmas decorations that have ...

How do farmers in the Central Highlands make their dried persimmons worth the price tag of $20 a kilogram? Da Lat, located 1,500 meters above sea leave in the Central Highlands, is the country’s ...

In Korean folklore, there is a story of a tiger and a baby and a persimmon. Basically, a fearsome tiger comes into a village to find some food, while a baby in the village endlessly cries. In an ...

In the midst of some pretty heavy and serious news in the K-Entertainment world such as Crying Nut‘s lawsuit against CNBlue or Park Shi Hoo‘s sexual assault case, rapper Beenzino provided many laughs ...