SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Boulevard Erkindik, located in the heart of downtown Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, is home to one of the most popular restaurants in town – Chicken Star, which was launched in May 2015 by Chung Chi-hoon, a 37-year-old Korean. TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel information website, ranked Chicken Star [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A police officer used a drone to catch a dog that broke into a farm and killed several chickens. Busan Gijang Police Station Lt. Kim Sang-deok received a report last month that a black dog had broken into a farm and killed 18 chickens before it escaped. When Lt. [...]
Singapore, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Researchers from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand recently conducted the largest ever clinical study on BRAND’S Essence of Chicken (BEC). In this study, BEC was compared against a placebo protein drink. The study, published in Nutrients*, a peer-reviewed open access journal of human nutrition, concluded that consumption of BEC improves [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Animal activists who on Sunday crashed the venue of an ongoing “chicken certification event” held by Woowa Brothers, operators of a delivery service app, held a demonstration in front of the company’s head office in Songpa-gu, Seoul, yesterday, pressing the company to stop “making fun of the deaths of [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The total number of chickens currently being raised domestically has risen to an all-time high. According to a report released by Statistics Korea and the Korean Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation yesterday, the number of chickens currently being raised in the second quarter of the year (as of [...]
EUMSEONG, Jul. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — When a heat wave warning was issued for all of North Chungcheong Province on Tuesday afternoon, poultry farm owners in the region were naturally on high alert. At one poultry farm measuring 800 square meters in size situated in Maengdong-myeon in the province’s Eunseong-gun, over 17,000 chickens were seen [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Innotek unveiled plans yesterday to develop AI smart farm technology that would make unmanned poultry farms possible. A joint venture with the National Institute of Animal Science, the new project will utilize big data on poultry as well as innovations such as deep learning and high-tech camera sensors. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The market leader of the food delivery service industry, Baedal Minjok, released a report citing operations data in an attempt to shutdown allegations that it was overcharging restaurants for advertising on its app. A spokesperson said the reason for doing so was because “there are recurring complaints about our [...]
IMSIL, South Korea, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A poultry farm in Imsil County, North Jeolla Province, has just received media spotlight for its “super chickens”, which are roughly six times larger than typical chickens. Shin Seok-yong (49) is the farm’s owner, and his birds currently weigh about 10 kilograms. An average chicken grows to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Egg prices in South Korea are showing signs of jumping as a large number of chickens have been culled due to the recent outbreak of avian influenza, industry sources said Thursday. The country has seen highly pathogenic bird flu cases spread at a rapid pace since mid-November when the [...]