Martina

Martina Sazunic is a Canadian Youtuber. She's the host of the Youtube Channel King Kogi. She is also the co-host with Simon and editor of Eat Your Kimchi, a vlog channel that introduces aspects of Korean, Japanese, and Canada culture to their viewers. They lived in Korea for seven years prior to residing in Tokyo, Japan.

She was originally an English teacher prior to vlogging full-time. She personally enjoys eating, drinking coffee and discovering new music. She dislikes the words “moist, leotard and puce,” alone with eating celery. She suffers from an illness known as Ehlers–Danlos syndromes (EDS), a genetic connective tissue disorders that gives her chronic pain, and an issue she discusses it openly in her channel.

Martina has degrees in English, philosophy, world religion and teaching, which all took a total of 6 years. She taught in Canada before teaching in Korea.

Early Life
Martina Stawski was born on May 1, 1983. She is the second daughter of her mother and father, she grew up and lived in the same house just outside of Toronto, Canada.

Simon and Martina moved to Korea in 2009 as English teachers and started to film videos for their families.

Simon and Martina adopted Spudgy & Meemers.

Simon and Martina opened the You Are Here Cafe.

2015
Simon and Martina closed the Eat Your Kimchi Studio and moved to Japan in hopes of exploring different parts of Japan. While they are not at the studio anymore, they will continue to make videos.

2016
While in Japan they briefly held the segment, Eat Your Sushi.

2017 - August 2020
They made a podcast on SBS Pop Asia called Eat Your Kimchi. The last EYK Podcast aired June 25, 2018.

They started their own Tokyo Tales Podcast on July 2, 2018.

2020 - present
August 16, 2020: Simon and Martina released a video announcing that they had moved to Canada during the Covid-19 Pandemic. They are starting with a blank state and making videos about things that bring them joy.

Martina wrote that her plan was to spend more time with her mother, learn recipes for Midnight Munchies, and Build A Ladder segments to stay creative.

Simon announced the newest member of his family Fudgy, Petra, and the turtle Gertrude.

November 2020, Martina started her new Youtube Channel, instagram, and clothing shop King Kogi. On December 8, 2020 Martina launched the King Kogi shop.

On February 11th, 2021, Simon and Martina | announced that they had decided to separate.

April 29, 2021 Martina announced she's making a digital cook book!


 * Martina from Eat Your Kimchi & King Kogi talks BTS & their influence on Korea part 1 & part 2
 * Martina opened up the King Kogi Discord

September 8, 2021 Martina announced she would be going back to Japan.

Special Segments:

 * Build A Ladder
 * King Kogi (Martina's Channel & shop)
 * Martina's Midnight Munchies
 * Martina's Twitch Channel
 * Open the Happy

Trivia

 * Martina loves cute things like Hello Kitty and Sailor Moon.
 * She designed the tattoo on her arm. She also has a tattoo of cherry blossoms on her feet.
 * She has EDS. In hopes of helping others and lifting people's spirits on bad days she created Open the Happy and Painfully Cute: Brace Yourself For Fashion. In a week, she'll always have 2 very bad days, a bad pain day and a recovery day
 * EYK actually grew because of Martina's involvement in the Korean English-teaching community, where her videos would get shared amongst that group and eventually the internet.
 * She spends hours a day responding to people on EYK and King Kogi's instagram and sets aside time to interact with the community.