The first South Korean who will fly to space next year will take and eat kimchi.

Goh San, 31, made the spicy revelation during an interview in Moscow with local newspaper Dong-A Ilbo on Monday. Goh said he and two Russian cosmonauts will have sterilized and irradiated version of the traditional Korean fermented vegetable dish aboard their spaceship.

Goh's space odyssey is set on April 8 to 19. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft will take him and two other cosmonauts to the orbiting International Space Station, where they will stay for 12 days. The rocket will take off in Kazakhstan.

Goh, who works at the Samsung Research Center, is the first candidate of South Korea to fly to space. Lee So-yeon, 29, from the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, is a female candidate who will substitute for Goh in case he won't be able to fly on launching day.

The two, who are staying in the Gagarin space center outside Moscow for training, where chosen among 36,000 candidates for the historic flight.