SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – McDonald’s Korea announced on Tuesday, July 5, that it will launch a “Big Mac Cooking Class” for both children and parents at 70 different locations across the country. The event is part of the company’s “Moms are Surprised” campaign that started in 2013 to publicize the excellence of its ingredients [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Liquor companies, barred from public spaces and airtime, are resorting to top celebrities for maximized advertisement effect, according to industry officials Tuesday. The government has been tightening regulations on liquor ads, revising the law on national health improvement. Recent changes include barring liquor ads on TV from 7 a.m. [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Starbucks Korea’s latest eco-friendly effort, using coffee grounds as compost to grow crops and purchasing the harvested products, was chosen as June’s ‘Excellent Example of Coexistent Cooperation in Agricultural Products’ by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA). According to the ministry, Starbucks Korea is currently supplying [...]
YONGIN, South Korea, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean city of Yongin has been pushing ahead with a project to bid for the headquarters of the main intergovernmental body for coffee, the Yongin municipal government said Tuesday. The municipality, just south of Seoul, said it will coordinate with agriculture and foreign ministries and [...]
GANGNEUNG, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – With only two years left to go until the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, a suggestion popped up during a strategy forum at Gangneung, a city in Gangwon Province, that Korea should host a food festival that introduces the province’s food culture to the rest of the [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – A prolonged economic slump and changes in drinking culture have cornered the whiskey market to the point where the industry has fallen into cutthroat competition, with companies breaking a voluntary agreement signed under the direction of a supervisory agency, the National Tax Service. Diageo Korea and Pernod Ricard Korea, the [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Nutritional information on food products is often hard to read, and sometimes quite ambiguous. But this information will become more legible with the latest government amendment to labeling regulations. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety revealed Tuesday the revised version of its ‘Labeling Standards for Food Products’, which [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government said Thursday it has launched a committee to select a food that can represent the city in an effort to diversify tourism resources in the capital. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said a total of 12 experts joined the newly established committee earlier this month. The [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study found that drinking even just a half a glass of milk a day reduces the likelihood of developing colon cancer by half. At the ‘2016 International Milk Symposium’ held in honor of World Milk Day (June 1), Professor Kim Jeong-sun from the Department of Cancer Epidemic Prevention at [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A major hub of lactobacillus research, the Korea Yakult Central Research Institute, celebrated its 40th anniversary Thursday. Since its establishment in June 1976, the institute’s import-substituting effect of yogurt strains in monetary value has exceeded 200 billion won. The institute, which was modeled after the Pasteur Institute in France, freed [...]