what is the different between gimbap and sushi?!

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Gimbap or kimbap is a popular Korean dish made from steamed white rice (bap) and various other ingredients, rolled in gim (sheets of dried laver seaweed) and served in bite-size slices. Gimbap is often eaten during picnics or outdoor events, or as a light lunch, served with danmuji or kimchi. It is similar to the better-known Japanese sushi.

The basic components of gimbap are rice, meat or other protein-rich ingredients, and a large variety of vegetables, pickled, roasted, or fresh. Traditionally, the rice is lightly seasoned with salt and sesame oil/perilla oil.

Popular protein ingredients are fish cakes, crab meat, eggs, and/or seasoned beef rib-eye. Vegetables usually include cucumbers, spinach, carrots, and danmuji (pickled radish). After the gimbap has been rolled and sliced, it is typically served with danmuji. Short grain white rice is usually used, although short-grain brown rice, like olive oil on gim, is now becoming more widespread among the health-conscious

http://www.freebase.com/view/en/gimbap

Sushi indicates foods that use rice seasoned with sweet rice-wine vinegar. Of course, raw fish is the most popular ingredient in sushi, but the main element of sushi is Japanese sticky rice. There are many kinds of sushi, which don't include raw fish. Cooked fish, shellfish, and various other ingredients can be combined in sushi

http://gojapan.about.com/cs/sushilinks1/…

Gimbap has seaweed as a main ingredient
Sushi can be made without seaweed or even (raw) fish for that matter - its the rice

Inarizushi is just sushi rice stuffed in a bean curd pouch. Chirashizushi also can have no fish in it but its the sweet vinegary rice that's important (but boring without any fish...)
Sushi means "sour" with regard to the rice, because back in old times, the rice was fermented in a fish and after a bit, the fish was tossed and the rice was eaten. Then when it came to Japan started eating both and bam, modern sushi.

http://metropolitansushi.com

Differences:

1) Sushi must contain rice vinegar but rice vinegar is an optional ingredient for gimbap.

2) Gimbap contained sesame oil. Authentic sushi doesn't.

3) There are many types of sushi available. Common sushi types are: Nirigi sushi, gunkan sushi, maki sushi, temaki sushi, uramaki sushi, chirashi sushi and inari sushi. Common types of gimbap: Gimbap (resembles maki sushi), samgak kimbap (resembles Japanese onigiri) and chungmu gimbap (a plain rice gimbap with no fillings which resembles maki sushi).

One is Korean, the other Japanese!!