In a Pickle without Pickle

The Korean grocer's where I buy my kimchee (actually, the only Korean grocer's I've found in town) has been closed the last couple of times I've dropped by, with a sign on the door apologizing for the fact that the owners must attend to urgent business. This worries me: first of all, the owners are really nice, and I don't like the idea of some tragedy, great or small, befalling them. Second, how on earth am I going to make kimchee soup if I can't get kimchee?