SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean imports of Japanese seafood sank more than 30 percent last month, data showed Monday, amid concerns over Tokyo’s planned release of contaminated water from its crippled nuclear power plant. South Korea imported 2,129 tons of fishery products from the neighboring country in May, down 30.6 percent from [...]
DAEGU & BOSEONG, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) —Next week, on June 6th, we will celebrate Mangjong, also known as awned grain, which is the ninth of the 24 solar terms. Mangjong indicates the celestial longitude reaching 75 degrees and signifies an auspicious time for sowing the seeds of bearded grains, such as rice. In agrarian [...]
JEJU, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Island has achieved the top rank in kiwi production in South Korea. Last year, Jeju had 335 hectares of kiwi cultivation, producing 8,711 tons of kiwis. Although the cultivation area is second to Jeollanam-do, Jeju’s production exceeded it. Jeju’s kiwi production accounted for 43.8% of the national total. [...]
BUSAN, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Farmer Kim Kyung-yang is harvesting rice for the first time this season in the Busan area on Friday morning, at his rice field located in Jukdong-dong, Gangseo-gu, Busan. The first variety to be planted in his field is Hae Dam rice, an early season type that will have a [...]
BORYEONGL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) —Three seafood vendors have been arrested by the Boryeong Coast Guard Station for falsely labeling Japanese red sea bream as domestic seafood. The vendors were suspected of violating the Country of Origin Labeling Act, and anyone who falsely labels the origin of a product can face up to seven years [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Rice production costs in South Korea rose 9.3 percent on-year in 2022 due mainly to soaring prices of fertilizers, causing net profit from rice farming to sink nearly 40 percent, data showed Thursday. Farmers spent 31,631 won (US$24.24) to produce 20 kilograms of rice last year, up 2,689 won [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of manure generated by livestock farms every year is estimated at more than 50 million tons, most of which is used as compost, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs conducted a complete enumeration survey on the current state of livestock [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — In 1993, it was discovered that the Soviet (now Russian) Navy had dumped approximately 1,000 tons of radioactive nuclear waste in the East Sea, 190 kilometers southeast of Vladivostok. Although the Soviet Union claimed that the concentration of nuclear waste released was lower than the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of beef reached a record high last year on growing demand for the meat and the government’s zero-tariff scheme, data showed Friday. The country’s beef imports came to 477,000 tons in 2022, or the largest volume ever, compared with 453,000 tons a year earlier, according to [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Heukharang or black harang, a lettuce variety with high levels of sleep-inducing lactucin, is set to be cultivated in Australia. Developed by the Jeollanamdo Agricultural Research & Extension Services (JARES), heukharang contains 124 times more lactucin than regular lettuce, making it a valuable natural insomnia treatment. As the lactucin [...]