This photo, provided by Fresheasy, shows a burger made with vegan meat.
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of hard-core vegetarians has turned out to be minimal in South Korea, a survey showed Monday.
The Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. (aT) conducted a survey of 5,510 adults, in which only 7.6 percent (418 people) were vegetarians and the remaining 92.4 percent were non-vegetarians.
The survey was delegated by local pollster Global Research to be conducted on 5,510 panel members based on seven levels of vegetarian practice.
Among vegetarians, so-called ‘flexitarians’ or vegetarians who consume meat from time to time accounted for 79.7 percent (333 people).
The ‘pollos’ who consume milk, eggs, fish and chicken but not beef or pork, accounted for 11 percent (46 people). The ‘pescos’, who only consume fish, accounted for 6.2 percent (26 people).
In total, flexitarians, pollos and pescos accounted for 96.9 percent of the total (405 people) or 7.4 percent including non-vegetarians.
Only 3.1 percent of vegetarians did not consume any kind of meat. That’s 0.2 percent among all survey participants.
Among them, the ‘lacto-ovos’ or those who only consume eggs and milk accounted for 0.7 percent (three people). The ‘ovos’ who eat eggs, but not milk, accounted for 1.4 percent (six people).
‘Lactos’ who consume fruits, vegetables and milk and ‘vegans’ who strictly eat nothing more than vegetables and fruits accounted for 0.5 percent each (two people).
Ashley Song (ashley@koreabizwire.com)
