SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean craft beers selling at convenience stores are enjoying a surge in popularity. Three years ago, the convenience store beer market was dominated by imported beers thanks to a hugely popular promotion in which four cans were selling for 10,000 won (US$8.42). Today, the situation has changed with each [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Beer has long been a key ingredient of mixed drinks in South Korea, but changing appetites and the extended coronavirus pandemic have turned consumers toward diverse and unique flavors of craft beer. Craft beer sales are on the rise, as a growing number of people work from home due [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s wine imports nearly doubled in the first eight months of 2021 from a year earlier as more people enjoyed drinking at home and alone amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Thursday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy imported US$370.5 million worth of wine in the January-August period, up 96.5 percent [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The environment ministry said Thursday it has forged agreements with water bottling companies across the country to supply label-free water products to local government offices and transportation service providers. The deals call on nationwide water companies to provide label-free water products to six metropolitan city government offices and 22 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s wine imports hit a fresh high in 2020 as more people enjoyed drinking at home and alone due to the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Monday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy imported US$330 million worth of wine last year, up 27.3 percent from a year earlier, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Gulping a can of beer alone after a grueling night shift has been a monthslong ritual for Kim Jae-yeon, a nurse at a general hospital in Seoul, since her favorite watering hole shut down amid the pandemic and the hospital she works at told medical staff to avoid gatherings. [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Delivery apps and restaurant search platforms are stepping up to revise reviews and star rating systems, in response to numerous restaurants struggling with malicious reviews and absurdly low star ratings. Last week, major food delivery platform Coupang Eats introduced a new feature that allows restaurants to reply to customer [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Ji-na, a mom of two children, is on a postpartum diet and tries to eat food high in protein but low in calories so that she doesn’t feel tired and grouchy. On busy mornings, the 38-year-old often grabs protein bars made of egg whites and almond or packaged [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of Americans and Europeans are buying sweet-flavored Korean bread for snacks, while Koreans are buying European bread to eat with meals. This is the result of a changing landscape in South Korea’s food culture, led by South Korean bakeries in foreign markets as well as the [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean-made instant noodles, or “ramyeon” in Korean, are gaining a stronger foothold in Japan, the country that claims to have invented the world’s first instant noodle. South Korea recorded a surplus of $21.1 million in its instant noodle trade with Japan in the first four months of this year, [...]