SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of coffee surged more than 24 percent to hit a new all-time high in 2021 on its growing popularity here, data showed Monday. The value of the country’s coffee imports stood at US$916.5 million last year, up 24.2 percent from the previous year, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Franchise coffee chains in South Korea are going beyond desserts to sell full meals. Angel-in-us Coffee, the cafe chain operated by South Korean retail giant Lotte, sold 500,000 Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches in the second quarter of this year, with sales increasing steadily since the sandwich was first introduced [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s market for convenient coffee beverages expanded nearly 6 percent in the first half of the year amid the coronavirus pandemic, a market tracker said Tuesday. The size of the local ready-to-drink coffee market stood at 672.9 billion won (US$574 million) in the January-June period, up 5.9 percent [...]
SEOUL, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the disruptions to daily life caused by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, South Koreans’ love of coffee remains unchanged. The nation’s imports of raw coffee beans totaled 52,285 tons in the first four months of this year, up 14.8 percent from a year ago, according to the Korean Customs [...]
CHUNCHEON, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean scholar has succeeded in growing coffee trees in an unheated greenhouse in Gangwon Province. Coffee trees typically grow in tropical and subtropical climates. Thus far, it has been believed that it would be impossible to cultivate coffee trees in Gangwon Province, which is situated above the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea presented ‘HOPE’ as this year’s major coffee trend on the basis of big data it collected from the stores it operates across the country. HOPE refers to four major coffee trends: ‘Home,’ non-face-to-face ‘Order & Pay,’ ‘Personalized’ and ‘Emotional Well-being.’ The local unit of the U.S. coffee [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday its barista robot acquired ‘Robot Brewing Master’ certification from the Korea Coffee Association. The Brewing Master Certification Program certifies professionals for brewing high-quality coffee based on the knowledge of various tools and methods used for coffee-making. The Korea Coffee Association has issued the certification [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s imports of coffee expanded more than 5 percent in the first seven months of the year despite the coronavirus outbreak, data showed Tuesday. Imports of coffee stood at 90,355 tons in the January-July period, up 5.37 percent from a year earlier, according to the data from the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — It is no secret that South Koreans love drinking coffee at cafes. Sitting with an iced latte in an air-conditioned cafe can be luxuriously comfortable. But when it comes to fighting the coronavirus, the country’s coffee craze could be a hurdle, as coffee shops are emerging as a hotbed [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Coffee delivery services are not an unfamiliar concept in South Korea. Serving persons at tea houses, or “dabang” in Korean, used to deliver cups of coffee filled with sugar and cream on foot. Big-name coffee chains such as Starbucks and small independent cafes replaced such tea houses by offering [...]