SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Kopan’, a dessert-snack bread from South Korea’s leading confectionery Paris Baguette, has won over customers in Korea after explosive popularity first in France, a company official said on Tuesday. Short for Korean pan, Kopan was served as a dessert at the Korea-France summit dinner in Paris held in November last [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The quantity of milk that is left unsold is increasing every year. Along with the popularity of imported dairy products, the Korean dairy industry is facing more difficulties. According to the Korea Dairy Committee (KDC), as of March 2016 the quantity of excess raw milk converted to powdered milk [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government opened its first career support café in a bustling university neighborhood on Monday with young adults scrambling to secure favorable employment in a continuously tough job market. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said it equipped the café, located near Hongik University in western Seoul, with seminar rooms, [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – As the number of patients from the Middle East has been growing in South Korea, specialty food normally found only in restaurants is being served at leading hospitals around the country. Records from the Health and Welfare Ministry and medical institutions showed a steady increase in the number of [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The next time you have a hangover, you might want to try a new Korean treat called a Gyeondo-bar. Gyeondyo-bars are the latest hangover cure in the Korean market, developed by WithMe, a convenience store franchise owned by Korean retail giant Shinsegae. The name of the new bar is derived [...]
JAKARTA, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Indonesia is the second-largest producer of coffee in Asia, and the fourth-largest in the world. Brewed coffee brands from regions like Sumatra, Bali, and Java are well known among not only domestic but also foreign coffee enthusiasts. But contrary to popular practice, the county’s instant coffee market has become [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A new record was set when the amount of salmon caught last year, 488 tons in total, was found to be greatest ever caught in Korean history. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries reported on May 23 that the new record was announced at the 24th Annual Conference of the [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Insects are considered an alternative source of nutrition for our future, in which we may suffer from lack of food resources. In general, 100g of insects such as mealworms, crickets, or grasshoppers, is known to provide 100kcal of calories. Compared to rice or beans, which provide 300 to 400kcal [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean breweries are apparently seeking to jack up beer prices in the wake of hikes in “soju” liquor prices in November last year, according to industry figures Sunday. “(We) are considering price hikes internally,” an official at Oriental Brewery (OB) Co. said. “The specific rate and timing have [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The SPC Group, a leading South Korean conglomerate that runs bakery brand Paris Baguette, is currently working to register the genome of its new yeast for bread (SPC-SNU 70-1) with the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database. The SPC Group jointly developed the yeast with Seoul National [...]