Editing Gimbap (section)

==Etymology==
''[[Gim (food)|Gim]]'' ({{Lang|ko|김}}) refers to edible seaweed in the genus ''[[Porphyra]]'' and ''[[Pyropia]]''. ''[[bap (food)|Bap]]'' ({{Lang|ko|밥}}) broadly refers to cooked rice. The compound term ''gimbap'' is a [[neologism]]; it was not a part of the Korean language until the 20th century.

The term ''gimbap'' was used in a 1935 Korean newspaper article<ref name="Dong-a">{{Cite news|url=https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.naver?articleId=1935011500209102020&editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1935-01-15&officeId=00020&pageNo=2&printNo=5070&publishType=00010|title=휴지통|date=14 January 1935|work=[[The Dong-a Ilbo]]|access-date=26 February 2017|language=ko|quote=문어 점복에 김밥을 싸먹고 목욕한후 바위등에 누으면 얼화만수——|via=[[Naver]]|archive-date=14 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814023221/https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?articleId=1935011500209102020&editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1935-01-15&officeId=00020&pageNo=2&printNo=5070&publishType=00010|url-status=live}}</ref> but at the time, the [[loanword]] ''norimaki'' was used as well. ''Norimaki'', borrowed from the name of a similar Japanese dish, was part of the Japanese vocabulary that entered into the Korean language during [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese occupation]] (1910–1945). The two words were used interchangeably until ''gimbap'' was made the universal term, as part of efforts to clear away remnants of Japanese colonialism and [[Linguistic purism in Korean|purify the Korean language]].<ref name="NIKL2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.korean.go.kr/front/imprv/refineView.do?mn_id=158&imprv_refine_seq=1707|title=노리마키(海苔卷)|website=[[National Institute of Korean Language]]|language=ko|access-date=27 February 2017|archive-date=27 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227062319/http://www.korean.go.kr/front/refine/refineView.do?mn_id=34&refine_seq=455|url-status=live}}</ref>