SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — In a notable win for South Korea’s agricultural sector, the government has successfully resisted U.S. demands to further open its domestic rice and beef markets during recent bilateral trade negotiations. The move has been welcomed by farmers and industry groups, who had feared the talks would lead to fresh [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean farmers and civic groups on Thursday welcomed the exclusion of rice and beef from the nation’s latest trade deal with the United States. “The government emphasized that there will be no further opening of rice and beef markets,” they said in a statement issued during a rally [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agricultural ministry said Tuesday it has won approval from Hong Kong to ship locally bred beef from all regions starting this week, despite a recent outbreak of lumpy skin disease (LSD). Following the country’s first-ever outbreak of LSD in late October, South Korea has been under a [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Monday began strengthening quarantine checks on U.S. beef imports following a report of a mad cow disease case, the agriculture ministry said. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said it increased sampling inspections carried out on American beef from the previous 3 percent to [...]
JEONJU, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Low carbon beef from Korean premium “hanwoo” cattle that is raised in a customized low carbon environment is expected to come to the market in the near future. Melliens, a startup founded by a faculty member of Jeonbuk National University, recently marketed low carbon Hanwoo called Locacow, which have [...]
JEJU, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Black cattle have turned out to have superiority in terms of both nutrition and taste compared to other cattle breeds. Jeju National University’s Jeju Black Cattle Research Center said Thursday it had succeeded in proving the nutritional superiority of Jeju Black cattle through a comparison of amino acids [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States accounted for more than half of the South Korean market for imported beef last year, data showed Monday, widening the gap with its top rival, Australia. South Korea imported 235,716 tons of U.S. beef in 2019, 53 percent of the total beef imports, according to the [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A service that informs Korean cattle farmers by predicting the genetic ability of female calves will be implemented to help genetically superior hanwoo give birth to multiple calves. Hanwoo refers to beef cattle produced in South Korea. The Rural Development Administration and NongHyup Agribusiness Group Inc. have established a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Beef imported from the United States increased significantly to hit a share of over 50 percent of South Korea’s imported beef market this year, a trade promotion agency said Monday. South Korea imported 209,034 tons of U.S. beef in the January-October period, up 7.9 percent from 193,685 tons tallied [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent consumer behavior survey has shown that consumers put taste and quality first as the most important factors when choosing livestock products. While preference for imported livestock products dropped after mad cow disease scares, the willingness to purchase imported livestock products has been steadily increasing since then. When [...]