The most famous vegan celebrity in Korea, Im Soo-jung started her plant-based ways when she discovered she was allergic to animal protein five years ago. Although a vegan diet was a necessity for her, she came to enjoy it and now she is at the forefront of promoting veganism in Korea, sharing information on good vegan restaurants and meal options on her Instagram.
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Some of her favourite dishes are pizza made out of brown rice with vegan cheese on top and vegetable chobap (Korean sushi) with mushrooms and bell pepper as toppings.
She is Korea’s answer to J.Lo, and recently made a comeback as part of the group Ssak3 with emcee Yoo Jaesuk and Rain. Having settled down in the interim on Jeju Island, a one-hour flight from Seoul offering a greener space for her pets, she also chose to become a pescatarian, or a pesco-vegetarian, out of her love for animals, as she explained in the talk show Healing Camp back in 2012, saying, “Nowadays people are eating meat more than ever and to meet up to the demand animals are suffering being caged, and I wanted to start making efforts on what I could do.
