SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Fresh fruits and vegetables from Korea are hot sellers in the American food market. Dubbed “K-Fresh,” fruit, vegetables, ginseng, mushrooms, grains and kimchi from the South Korea have been welcomed in the American market, thanks to their high quality and freshness. On September 5 and 6, K-Food Fair 2018 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will host a Korean food and beverage trade show in the United States to boost local firms’ export opportunities in the major market, the government said Tuesday. About 40 Korean food exporters and 100 buyers from the U.S., Canada and Latin America will attend the “K-Food Fair” [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s fruit imports reached record high levels last year on growing demand for dietary diversity, customs data showed Monday. The country imported 834,000 tons of fruit, worth US$1.24 billion, last year. In terms of value, last year’s figure marks the highest tally ever, according to the data compiled [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has stepped up sampling inspections of U.S. beef imports following a confirmation of a mad cow case, the government in Seoul said Thursday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said it has increased sampling inspections carried out on American beef from the current 3 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of key food produce items in South Korea have continued to rise as weeks of hot, dry weather have affected fresh vegetable production, presenting a financial burden for households, a consumer agency said Tuesday. Prices of 21 vegetables jumped 15.1 percent as of Aug. 10 compared with a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. beef and pork imports surged in the first half of 2018, expanding their presence in the South Korean market, a research institute said Sunday. According to the Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI), both types of meat are rapidly increasing their market share in Asia’s fourth-largest economy, with beef [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — An unconventional section has made its way into the fresh meat category at Hyundai Department Store’s Mokdong branch. The new section only offers “ethical meat produced on healthy farms” certified for having guaranteed proper welfare for the animals. With an increasing number of South Koreans opting to exercise ethical [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The total number of chickens currently being raised domestically has risen to an all-time high. According to a report released by Statistics Korea and the Korean Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation yesterday, the number of chickens currently being raised in the second quarter of the year (as of [...]
EUMSEONG, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — When a heat wave warning was issued for all of North Chungcheong Province on Tuesday afternoon, poultry farm owners in the region were naturally on high alert. At one poultry farm measuring 800 square meters in size situated in Maengdong-myeon in the province’s Eunseong-gun, over 17,000 chickens were seen [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With high temperatures sweeping the nation and sparking public safety warnings, an increasing number of livestock animals such as chicken and pigs continue to succumb to the scorching heat. According to the Korea Meteorological Administration yesterday, certain regions in the provinces of Gangwon, South Gyeongsang, Gyeonggi, Chungcheong, Jeolla and [...]