SEOUL, Sept.1 (Korea Bizwire) – The operators of the food delivery application ‘Yogiyo’ announced that they have started a 24-hour service. The customer satisfaction center as well as the delivery service center, which were previously both open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. the next day, started a 24-hour service on August 17. Officials explained [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Confectionery, a unit of South Korea’s fifth-largest conglomerate Lotte Group, has been found guilty of copying a Japanese snack maker’s package design, a court ruling said Sunday. The Seoul Central District Court sided with Japan-based Ezaki Glico, which had lodged the suit against the South Korean confectionery firm to [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – It is now possible to delay the ripening of tomatoes by exposing them to certain sounds. The Office of Rural Development announced that they have developed a method to postpone the ripening of tomatoes after they are harvested by using sound waves. The research team exposed green tomatoes for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailers and food manufacturers are expanding their ready-to-eat meal products to cater to the country’s rapidly growing single households who opt to eat in, partly to save time and money, market watchers said Wednesday. Retailers and food makers, in turn, are swiftly moving to increase their market [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Exports of Samgyetang, a popular health food often consumed in summer to help the body resist the heat, are soaring. Samgyetang is a kind of chicken soup cooked with ginseng and other ingredients that are known to increase stamina. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced that [...]
SEOUL, August 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Whiskey is no longer the most popular foreign liquor in Korea. Wine finally beat whiskey in terms of the number of bottles imported. It is the first time that wine was imported more than whiskey. According to the Korea Foreign Trade Association(KFTA), among the gross receipts of liquor imports [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Wine was atop the list of South Korea’s alcoholic beverage imports in the first half of this year, outpacing hard liquors for the first time, data showed Wednesday. Wine imports rose 5.5 percent on-year to US$94.43 million in the January-June period, taking up the highest share of the total [...]
JEJU, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — To set up a firm foundation for the development of gamgyul (tangerine) farming in Jeju for the next 50 years, the Jeju Self-governing Province will implement a five-year plan for its innovation. The province announced the details of the five-year plan to reliably produce stable quantities of high-quality tangerines. [...]
SEOUL, August 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Food trucks that sell food and drinks will start operating at parks in Seoul in the latter half of this year. Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that food trucks selling coffee, toast and refreshments would start business at West Seoul Lake Park during the latter half of 2015. Since operating [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of products affiliated with animation characters such as ‘Minions‘ are soaring. According to McDonald’s, Happy Meals with Minion toys are in high demand. The ‘Minion Happy Meal Special Set’, which consists of five Minion toys, one Happy Meal, and four coupons for Happy Meals were all sold out the [...]