SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean convenience store chains are continuing discount promotions for popular alcoholic beverages, including whisky and wine. CU sold 1,600 bottles of some 30 popular whiskies and wines at 30 stores in the Seoul region last weekend at a discount rate of up to 30 percent. Balvenie 12-Year-Old Double [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Shipments of alcoholic beverages continue to fall with a shrinking number of business gatherings and other changes in South Korean drinking culture. The Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. and National Tax Service data showed that the country’s domestic shipments of alcoholic beverages in 2021 amounted to 3.01 million [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The share of South Koreans who know that alcoholic beverages are a cancer-causing substance remains low at about 30 percent, a survey showed Tuesday. According to a survey of 7,000 Korean men and women between the ages of 20 and 60 across the country conducted by the National Cancer [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety and the Fair Trade Commission on Wednesday signed an agreement with six liquor associations oto provide calorie information on alcoholic beverages. Previously, only a few companies have provided calorie information on their alcoholic beverages. With this agreement, the liquor industry will provide [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Output of domestic alcoholic beverages decreased by over 10 percent over the past five years, but imports of alcohol nearly doubled during the same period, government data showed Sunday. The total production of alcoholic beverages made in the country came to 337 million kiloliters in 2019, down 11.3 percent [...]
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif., Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Hard seltzer brands can now explore new, true-to-fruit, clean natural flavors with Blue California’s Destination Flavors Collection 2021 in their ready-to-drink (RTD) alcoholic beverages. Inspired by favorite globetrotting getaways, spanning from Spain to Thailand to Aruba, the Destination Flavors Collection captivates consumer taste buds within an arm’s reach of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans on average consumed alcoholic beverages 8.5 days per month in 2019, a poll showed Sunday, with a growing number of people drinking at home this year due to the virus pandemic. It marked a slight drop from 8.8 days posted in 2017 and 2018, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The traditional alcoholic beverage “makgeolli” has contributed to the increased consumption of alcoholic beverages by older women, a report showed Monday. According to the report conducted by a team of researchers at Seoul National University College of Medicine, a daily average of alcoholic beverages consumed by women aged between [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A public health law revision is under review to require pictorial warnings of health hazards on alcoholic beverages, officials said Wednesday. The warning labels will resemble those on cigarette packs, alerting consumers to health risks from drinking and the consequences of drunk driving, according to the officials from the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) –The committee tasked with revamping Lotte’s company culture revealed on August 22 that it had convened a meeting at a Lotte beverage factory in Chungju. One of the noteworthy topics discussed at the meeting was the idea for a “reverse mentoring” initiative to encourage understanding between employees of different ages [...]