Also those skinny canisters from asian stores, all the ones I've seen are Korean too.
Hmm. Now that you mention it, you're right. Interesting.
My brother, who is an English teacher in Korea, says that it's routine for Korean families to all have a portable gas burner. If company comes over, you pull out the spare gas burner to augment your kitchen range.
And I was serious about my earlier remarks that some of the nicest "classic" style liquid fueled stoves I've
ever seen have been Korean made. The Koreans took the "classic" style developed and made famous by the Swedish (think Primus, Optimus, Lux, Radius, and Svea) and added wonderful practical details like a burner that would switch from roarer (for wind and bad weather) to silent (for normal weather but much nicer in terms of noise), things the Swedes never thought of.
I guess Koreans really like stoves.
HJ