SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Michelin Guide on Thursday announced its highly regarded star selections for a total of 31 restaurants in Seoul with unique cuisine and quality, including two eateries that grabbed three stars for the fourth consecutive year. The awards were announced at the ceremony of the 2020 Michelin Guide for [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — This year, the public’s view and sentiment toward “Pepero Day (Nov. 11) ” are not great. It seems that cracks are occurring in a previously popular promotion that has been thriving for 26 years. One of the things consumers feel strongly about every Pepero Day is that it is [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — In the past decade, the food service industry has gone through significant change. Food that was once a huge success disappeared suddenly, and old favorites reappeared out of nowhere. The Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. recently published a report outlining popular dishes and trends in the restaurant market [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The rising popularity of the Korean Wave in Vietnam is helping local consumers fall in love with Korean spicy food. A local restaurant franchise Sasin was the first to introduce Vietnamese to Korean spicy food when it was established in Ho Chi Minh City in 2016. Sasin, a franchise [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has found that South Koreans eat more Japanese “natto” than Korean cheonggukjang, a traditional fermented soybean stew. According to a recent study conducted by the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation, the market for cheonggukjang in South Korea was 93.5 billion won (US$8.08 million) last year, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The popularity of a diet based on vegetables is on the rise as an increasing number of South Korean consumers are looking for healthy and ethical consumption. As a result, the retail industry is launching a series of vegetarian products. Nongshim Co., South Korea’s top instant noodles maker, released [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is considering plans to ban liquor manufacturers from using photos of female celebrities to promote their products. The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on Monday that it will consider amending rules to ban liquor manufacturers from including pictures of female celebrities on liquor bottle labels to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are increasingly preferring home meal deliveries. Innocean Worldwide Inc., a local advertisement agency, released a report on Sunday that compiled some 1.7 million data records produced on online forums and social media between August 2018 and July 2019. The report showed that South Koreans are increasingly preferring [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The delivery in the midst of its heyday, with so-called ‘Yakult women’ now delivering kimchi and meat, and convenience stores providing parcel and laundry services. Yakult (Japanese yogurt drink) delivery personnel are famous for going from house to house with their Yakult delivery carts. These days, however, their frozen [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The prosecution has decided to reinvestigate the local unit of McDonald’s over allegations that undercooked burgers sold at its restaurants caused illness among some customers, officials said Friday. Reversing its 2018 decision to drop the related charges, state prosecutors said they will resume the probe into the so-called burger [...]